11.   That searing experience may be why Armitage is now advising his friend not to expose himself and family to the reputational rigors of a campaign.

12.   The campaign was such a searing experience for them that they have never gotten over it.

13.   The conference call was a searing experience.

14.   This was a searing experience.

15.   This was no distant, dusty memory to him, but a searing experience that he still carried with him, as if it had happened yesterday.

16.   Van der Eb says that searing experience has driven his investment outlook ever since.