white heat

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But it's worth remembering that the meeting was March 21 to 22, right in the white heat of the crisis triggered by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank only days before.

From Reuters • Apr. 13, 2023

Soccer has moved on from the era when greatness was forged in the white heat of World Cups and continental championships.

From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2021

“It’s only in the white heat of this international crisis that the attributes of this serious and competent politician will be really tested and where Dominic Raab can and will excel,” Jackson wrote.

From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2020

In the words of Prime Minister Harold Wilson, it was forged in the "white heat of technology".

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2017

It began life as a single, long, exhaustingly forceful movement, but Shostakovich, in a white heat of besieged inspiration, fleshed it out to a further three movements.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall