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

2.   Holocaust survivors, descended from a nightmarish place, have seen too much, and those searing images have left them forever contaminated with madness.

3.   Others are just as real as the searing image of a napalm-burned South Vietnamese girl running toward the camera.

4.   In a day of searing images, the one that haunted the world was a firefighter clutching a bloodied baby.

5.   The grenade blast came on the third day of a face-off that has produced searing images of terrified young girls in red school sweaters and ties.

6.   The searing images of war, captured by a throng of television crews and photographers, hammered home the reality of terrorism to many Filipinos.