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hot — as in temperature, intense emotions (especially passion), or intense pace

In this she was successful; when the candle she chewed made contact with the torrid images she evoked, the candle began to burn.
Laura Esquivel -- Like Water for Chocolate

She wanted this last weekend to be everything summer could be...hot, hazy, torrid.
Nora Roberts -- Summer Pleasures
Do you not feel the terrible, torrid heat?
Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
He had detected the latent sensuality, which unfolded under his delicate sense of her nature's requirements like a torpid, torrid, sensitive blossom.
Kate Chopin -- The Awakening
I used to have a torrid crush on the Partridge girl from LA.
Jodi Picoult -- Change of Heart
Sitting on the tremendous rock in the torrid sun, Roger received this news as an illumination.
William Golding -- Lord of the Flies
As it was, he could only stare into Teeleh's torrid eyes and fight his own terror.
Ted Dekker -- Black: The Birth of Evil
Beer had never been my favorite, but it tasted fine, ice-cold, on such a torrid day.
Ellen Hopkins -- Burned
The ashes under the grate were lit by the fire vertically, like a torrid waste.
Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
The blizzard of Montana or the torrid sirocco of the Staked Plain was no hindrance to the travel of the buffalo.
Zane Grey -- The Thundering Herd
The torrid cracks of the furnace gleamed in the crimson darkness and he heard the throaty undertone of the draft devouring the air.
Richard Wright -- Native Son
Where are the torrid fantasies?
Cassandra Clare -- City of Bones
I felt traumatized, embarrassed, trapped in my own emotionally torrid world.
Li Cunxin -- Mao's Last Dancer
But all were torrid, mind you.
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
We pushed our bed under the lattice window, hoping to catch a cool breeze, but there was none, just torrid stillness.
Lisa See -- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
The Pagan leopards—the unrecking and unworshipping things, that live; and seek, and give no reasons for the torrid life they feel!
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
It's even hotter up here, torrid, and the smell of perspiration makes him light-headed.
Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See
"If you must know," I replied, deadpan, "for the past six months I've been having this torrid affair with Warren Jacobi."
James Patterson -- 1st to Die
Miri preferred her movies torrid and dark.
Judy Blume -- In the Unlikely Event
Nestor had taken six wickets for twenty-five runs in a torrid spell of pace bowling, and four of those were by catches I took standing well behind the wicket.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone

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