You couldn't ask for a more searing image of alienation.

Divorce leaves children with a searing image of how badly relationships can end.

A final photograph is taken, and the book ends with a searing image of grief and loss.

The tourism industry must deal with the searing images of four hijacked planes plunging to earth as suicide missiles.

The matter of the story is highly abstract, but Bachmann pins it down with her searing images.

It is during this scene that a searing image appears: the booted foot of a dead man who is being carried by his brothers.

Some of the most searing images of Sept. 11 involve those who risked their lives to save others.

It is every campaign's worst fear: everything at risk with one searing image.

For example, a searing image of piled bodies at a concentration camp is held by a shape that suggests half of a human torso.

Vargas tried to blink away the searing image of the exploding flitter.