Torrid

torrid



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–adjective 

1. subject to parching 

or 

burning heat, esp. of the sun, as a geographical area: the torrid sands of the [Sahara]. 



2. oppressively hot, parching, or burning, as climate, weather, or air. 

3. ardent; passionate: a torrid love story.  





 　　

William Hurt is a spirited but struggling lawyer just getting by in a marginal Florida coast town whose persistent pursuit of sultry Kathleen Turner pays off in the way of a torrid affair, highly satisfying for both parties.



She's the young wife of loaded middle-aged businessman Richard Crenna, and it isn't long before the passion can't tolerate the limitations imposed. Just as in Double Indemnity it's the dame who hatches the murder plot, with the guy finally falling into line and coming up with the ingenious way to pull it off.





cf. decimate

desiccate

What [rescues] his best films [from] desiccation is the playfulness behind the theorizing 

parch

Walking in the [sun] parched his throat.

A staple of the Indian diet was parched [corn]. 

The obsessive central love story here is [repressed] on all levels, which serves to [parch] the film more than [intensify] it. 

scorch

charcoal

char

The fire charred the [paper]. 

with a slow zoom into the fresh-[charred] heart of a greasy, [gristle]-flecked beef [patty]. 

Inflict