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Recent Examples of fire and brimstone
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.
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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
But the album is not all fire and brimstone.
—Juan Velasquez, Them., 4 Apr. 2025
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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
But the album is not all fire and brimstone.
—Juan Velasquez, Them., 4 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fire and brimstone
Noun
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Nick Hensley, our gas man, did a fantastic job getting us in position out of pit road.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Feb. 2026
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There are a few thoughtful features built into this fire pit.—
Abhimanyu Ghoshal,
New Atlas,
13 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Mahon ran Channel 4 for eight years and is seen as a savvy political and commercial operator, who is sure-footed under scrutiny — all attributes that would serve her well in the hellfire moments that often come with running the BBC.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
9 Jan. 2026
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Instead of hellfire, Skate Story utilizes a vaporwave aesthetic to create an emotional journey throughout the Underworld.—
George Yang,
Forbes.com,
30 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Darnold, still just 28, is back from the abyss and ascending.—
Jerry Brewer,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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An existentialist peers into the abyss and feels a shiver of possibility, the freedom to be anything.—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
Noun
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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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California policymakers continue to make laws and allow regulators to contrive rules that make California a land of perdition rather than destination for enterprise because they have been captured by left-of-center interests.—
Kerry Jackson,
Oc Register,
13 Sep. 2025
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“Fire and brimstone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fire%20and%20brimstone. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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