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Recent Examples of fire and brimstone
From his pulpit, Wicks rains down selectively vituperative fire and brimstone, with an eye toward provoking walkouts from unsuspecting visitors—say, a gay couple or a single mom.
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Justin Chang, New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2025
Writer-director Rian Johnson, 51, offers not one but two clerics – Josh O’Connor’s young priest and Josh Brolin’s fire and brimstone grey-bearded Monsignor – plus Glenn Close’s indispensable church lady in an upstate New York small-town community.
—Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 23 Nov. 2025
And as this season has spiraled, it’s failed to bring out any fire and brimstone.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2025
If that’s not exactly fire and brimstone coming from Reid, such is the public persona of the fourth-winningest coach in NFL history.
—Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 23 May 2025
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Justin Chang, New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2025
Writer-director Rian Johnson, 51, offers not one but two clerics – Josh O’Connor’s young priest and Josh Brolin’s fire and brimstone grey-bearded Monsignor – plus Glenn Close’s indispensable church lady in an upstate New York small-town community.
—Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 23 Nov. 2025
And as this season has spiraled, it’s failed to bring out any fire and brimstone.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2025
If that’s not exactly fire and brimstone coming from Reid, such is the public persona of the fourth-winningest coach in NFL history.
—Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 23 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fire and brimstone
Noun
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Keeping with the down-home vibe, there are fire pits, a vegetable garden, and a communal lodge hangout space.—
Christina Pérez,
Vogue,
8 May 2026
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The council also wants to expand open-flame restrictions such as outdoor barbecuing and use of fire pits during red flag warnings.—
City News Service,
Daily News,
8 May 2026
Noun
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These two accountability requirements made sure that everyone in the system would be in a hellfire hurry to teach children to read.—
Rachel Canter,
The Atlantic,
9 Apr. 2026
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Call it spring hellfire, the Heat Miser’s meddling or the harbinger of summer — a historic heat wave is descending on Arizona, bringing three-digit temperatures to Phoenix.—
Sarah Henry,
AZCentral.com,
18 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Banks’ lack of effort during the 2024 season, in fact, was one of the factors that drove Dexter Lawrence to his breaking point of frustration in trying to lead a team without a winning culture of accountability out of the abyss.—
Pat Leonard,
New York Daily News,
4 May 2026
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The white whale may drag him into the abyss, and Melville may have gone to his grave in semi-obscurity, but neither will stay dead.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
1 May 2026
Noun
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Misprisions of this kind were more likely to occur, the experts argued, in religious settings marked by the rigorous policing of strict ethical injunctions or an emphasis on particular states of mind as markers of grace or perdition.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Mar. 2026
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Sloth, after all, is a deadly sin, and it was often seen as the first step on the slippery slope to perdition.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Fire and brimstone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fire%20and%20brimstone. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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