Give me more love or more disdain; The torrid or the frozen zone: Bring equal ease unto my pain; The temperate affords me none.    From LearnThat.org.  [Thomas Carew (1595-1639)]

A torrid dance.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The torrid noonday sun.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Each game will probably be like Thursday, the two in torrid conflict, until one team finally cracks.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Spurs grease Pistons in Game 1] Reference

"I expect it to be what we euphemistically refer to as a torrid game.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

The Prince fondly recalled his torrid time with ants while a boarder in the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

The equatorial region of the earth, otherwise known as the torrid clime, was considered impassable by ship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christians With Closed Hearts And Minds] Reference

I am fed up with reports of a celebrity's "torrid" affair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michele Willens: FACE IT: We All Have Our Pet Peeves] Reference

So how in the world did I have a 'torrid' (which is an accurate word) many-year affair?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disgraced former Rep. Souder talks life after scandal] Reference

When you watch this video, you might think this is a commercial with some kind of torrid theme.    From Wordnik.com.  [VIDEO: Custody of the eyes (Humour)] Reference

I think it might be more fun to skim books for the clothing descriptions than for the 'torrid' scenes!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Dresses of Mediocre Literature, Meta-Discussion - A Dress A Day] Reference

In the zone called torrid.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nursery, November 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 5] Reference

The torrid earnings growth can't go on indefinitely.    From Wordnik.com.  [All-Wheel Drive for Hyundai] Reference

I am a filthy parody of the torrid and blinding sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fiction with Teratoma Preserves] Reference

The result: Buenos Aires is hotter than a torrid tango.    From Wordnik.com.  [TRAVEL: HOTTER THAN THE TANGO] Reference

After a decade of torrid growth, the market is slumping.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fight To The Finish] Reference

Arakawa is extremely athletic and can create a torrid pace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ladies' On Ice: The Showcase Event] Reference

The U.S. is shipping at a torrid pace to keep up with demand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cotton Tops $1 a Pound] Reference

Replenishing those lost to that implacable torrid torch of day.    From Wordnik.com.  [NATURAE] Reference

And the torrid sun by day and the frost by night were most trying.    From Wordnik.com.  [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference

They barely hiccuped in 2009 and have resumed their torrid growth pace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Go Mobile, Go Global] Reference

Taiwan's June industrial output, reported Friday, also slowed from May's torrid pace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Singapore Manufacturing Growth Slows] Reference

China's torrid economic growth has produced enormous wealth and crushing social strains.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Smoke Screen] Reference

In no other zone can the special productions of the torrid zone be produced in perfection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference

The natives of the torrid zone can only labour in the cultivation of the soil of that zone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference

Regardless of the reason, Willingham has tailed off from his torrid first half of the season.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slumping Josh Willingham, playing with a sore knee, gets a day off] Reference

Actually, I'm an empathetic sap who's happy seeing kids cooling off in the torrid summer sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summertime And Litigiousness Is Easy] Reference

Judge Vaughn Walker's same-sex marriage ruling will fan the already-torrid flames of discontent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ernest Istook: Same-Sex Marriage Ruling Reinforces National Backlash] Reference

They had marched many miles under a torrid sun and slept many nights exposed to contrasting cold.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference

Wonder, degradation, hope -- it's all on parade on a torrid summer night in Kolkata's Kalighat district.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Deadly Passage To India] Reference

Moscow's daily death toll has nearly doubled from the norm as a torrid heat wave and wildfires continue.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's News: World-Wide] Reference

He was a real character so we wrote torrid love letters and included all the fantastic things he was doing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Biography of a Rabbit] Reference

Aside from rhetoric, they don't find much in Congress's various bills that would reduce the torrid pace of health spending.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Expensive Health-Care Agenda] Reference

During his years at Oxford, the tabloids turned every undergraduate flirtation into a torrid romance, every party into a debauch.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Brother Speaks Out] Reference

But the most popular request is for the third-floor suite where Clark Gable and Carole Lombard carried on a torrid affair during the 1930s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back To Oscar's Roots] Reference