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Recent Examples on the Web And not the fire and brimstone Old Testament perdition. — Damon Young, Washington Post, 6 June 2022 Pyre never gets the fire and brimstone kind of emotional beats that the Laffertys — especially elder sons Ron (Sam Worthington) and Dan (Wyatt Russell) — relish. — Caroline Framke, Variety, 26 Apr. 2022 So there’s the Old Testament, where the catastrophes were more fire and brimstone. — Jason Kehe, Wired, 9 Mar. 2022 The script, though, is still too schematic about it all; this was true of the original, too, though that movie’s coolness, contra Fuqua’s literal fire and brimstone, hid its deficits far more successfully. — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2021 Meanwhile, fire and brimstone fell from the sky; multiple cities were destroyed; thick smoke rose from the fires; city inhabitants were killed and area crops were destroyed in what sounds like an eyewitness account of a cosmic impact event. — David Bressan, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021 The segment, which actually happened, upsets the fire and brimstone Baptists that Jim is trying to impress. — Kathleen Newman-bremang, refinery29.com, 19 Sep. 2021 Harriet was the seventh of 13 children in a family of prominent ministers who did more than just preach fire and brimstone. — Dinaw Mengestu, Travel + Leisure, 21 July 2021 His survival against impossible odds undermines the realism Sapochnik was clearly trying to capture with his tactile filmmaking and in-your-face fire and brimstone. — Christian Holub, EW.com, 19 May 2021 See More

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“Fire and brimstone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fire%20and%20brimstone. Accessed 27 Jun. 2022.

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