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How to commemorate a religious sect that was unique, tolerant, forward-thinking, unjustly antagonized—but also short-lived, cultish, poorly documented, and fixated on fire and brimstone?
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Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
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.
—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
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Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
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.
—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
See All Example Sentences for fire and brimstone
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“Fire and brimstone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fire%20and%20brimstone. Accessed 6 Jan. 2026.
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