Elvis Mitchell

Spending time with Mexican-born writer and director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, you'd never guess that he's the filmmaker behind a series of movies known as the 'Death Trilogy.' The way he dotes on his children and talks about his wife makes it clear that he has a crackling passion for life.

American Critic

Jerry Saltz

Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are like cave paintings of modern life. They crackle with optical cockiness, love, and massive amounts of painterly mojo.

Hugh Grant

I never meant to be in romantic comedies; it's just what ended up happening. But they are tricky, in a post-1960s sexual revolution way. It was easier when you couldn't have sex scenes: everything crackled very nicely. They're not easy.

English Actor

Ernie Pyle

The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even as we watched. Big ones died down under the firemen's valor only to break out again later.

American Journalist

Stephen J. Cannell

I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling... I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt like it or not. I just did it.

American Producer

Mark McKinnon

A few words about Sarah Palin: She is one of the most fascinating women I have ever met. She crackles with energy like a live electrical wire and on first meeting gets about three inches from your face.

American Businessman

Kurt Elling

In New York, the drummers rush for a reason - because there's so much energy crackling through everything in that city and so many collisions at a highly accelerated rate.

American Musician

Illinois Jacquet

The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.

Paul Theroux

Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals.

American Novelist

Christopher Paolini

I've stood outside my house in Montana looking at the northern lights... crackling against the night sky. To me, that's magic.

American Author

Use 'crackle' to describe the distinct sound made by things like wood in a fire when they're heated.

Heating Sounds

'Crackle' can express the lively feeling of a place filled with excitement or activity.

Energetic Atmospheres

Metaphorically, 'crackle' might be used to describe a person who is very lively or full of energy.

Figurative Use

The noun form of 'crackle' helps create vivid imagery, ideal for setting a scene in storytelling.

Sensory Imagery

'Crackle' is often used to evoke a soothing or homely auditory background.

Ambient Background

In art, 'crackle' refers to a web of fine lines or cracks for a distinct texture or vintage look.

Visual Details

'Crackle' in art can indicate a specific technique to give objects an aged or unique appearance.

Art Technique

Use 'crackle' to vividly describe environments that are teeming with excitement or activity.

Vivid Descriptions

In expressive language, 'crackle' captures the intensity of emotions like excitement or anticipation.

Emotional Energy

 So, take a step back and think about all of this for a moment. Even though they seem different, the warmth you feel from a crackling fire is the same as the sun shining on you on a beautiful day, the same as ultraviolet light you put on sunscreen to protect yourself from,

Light waves, visible and...

 and sank theory is wrong in the days after Earhart's disappearance the speculation begins reports of SOS calls from her radio give the world hope that she is still alive they a night messages alternating between hope and disappointment crackle

Where's Amelia Earhart?...

 fundamentally bruce ann riker and a microbiologist in the fbi bruce's story is fascinating he's not who he appears to be at all most of the time we are on parallel paths and when we come together it should crackle with the help of hair and

The Hot Zone: Anthrax...

 especially when I was there putting her ashes amidst these little like crackling melting pieces of ice and and then thinking about how do you say goodbye but just put things in perspective for me and helped me move through that

Illustrating the Beauty...

 that the eye only detects light, which we don't perceive. Brains only detect nerve impulses. And they don't perceive even those as what they really are, namely electrical crackles. So we perceive nothing as what it really is.

David Deutsch: A new way...

 Sitting around a campfire, you can feel its heat, smell the woody smoke, and hear it crackle. If you get too close, it burns your eyes and stings your nostrils. You could stare at the bright flames forever

Is fire a solid, a...

 coming in off the sea a million sand hoppers snap crackling and popping down on the shoreline on a clear night like this with a moon

Stunning Moonlight...

 Finally, Hedge’s radio crackles to life with a series of directions. The three dive onto the conveyor and flee for their lives,

The Gauntlet PIPE Think...

 before one takes refuge by a crackling fire. Then it's back out into the storm where there'll be slips and falls on the ice.

Why should you listen to...

 What's that sound? Depending on whom you ask, the crackle of popping joints is either the sound of sweet relief