white-hot

[ hwahyt-hot, wahyt- ]

/ ˈʰwaɪtˈhɒt, ˈwaɪt- /

extremely hot.

showing white heat.

exceedingly enthusiastic, ardent, angry, devoted, etc.; impassioned; perfervid: a fierce, white-hot loyalty to the king.

Origin of white-hot

First recorded in 1810–20

Or maybe, just maybe, he will zing the president on a white-hot issue dominating every waking moment for, um, some voters.

Mitt’s Bizarre Lyme Disease Offensive |Kent Sepkowitz |October 2, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
But publicly, it chose to say little, hoping to maintain a neutral position in a white-hot international scandal.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s New York Hotel Disputes Allegations of Conspiracy |John Solomon |November 27, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
Over the past few decades, the study of telomeres has risen to become a white-hot area of very legitimate scientific research.

New Anti-Aging Pill Under Fire |Thea Singer |April 11, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
Over the past few decades, research into telomeres has become a "white-hot area of science," says Singer.

The New Science of Reverse Aging |Danielle Friedman |November 7, 2010 |DAILY BEAST

She tattooed her wrist with the letter E (for Edouard) by pressing a piece of white-hot metal there.

The Mystery of the S&M Banker’s Death |Eric Pape |June 14, 2009 |DAILY BEAST
Cell after secret cell of her brain caught the fire, and blazed with white-hot indignation.

Scarlet and Hyssop |E. F. Benson
As he went down the field men were repelled from his Robot-like body as they might had he been a thing of white-hot metal.

The Galloping Ghost |Roy J. Snell
We may raise the temperature, say, of iron, until it is white-hot.

The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) |J. Arthur Thomson
But I saw the worm-thing come creeping out, white-hot, vivid as incandescent silver, the live heart of essential fire.

Lilith |George MacDonald
But with the sudden accession of madness, hate had blazed up in her, white-hot, and she had attempted to stab him.

That Affair at Elizabeth |Burton E. Stevenson

white-hot

at such a high temperature that white light is emitted

informal in a state of intense emotion