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Only Cannavalefails to impress, bringing too much ham to his rambling fire-and-brimstone monologue.
DVD Review: The Merry Gentleman « Screaming Blue Reviews 2009
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This sentiment is not just limited to the right-wing, fire-and-brimstone set.
Jonathan Miller: The Moral Case for Gambling Jonathan 2012
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I grew up in an Orthodox home in New York, where I had a right-wing, xenophobic, anti-intellectual, fire-and-brimstone, free-thought free, shtetl-mentality, substandard education.
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She was no fire-and-brimstone preacher, but over the past 14 years, Apostle Peebles was a charismatic and powerful presence before her thousands of congregants, a motivational life coach of sorts who laughed and cried during sermons.
Megachurch co-founder reached beyond the pews Hamil R. Harris 2010
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Egypt's Sunni Muslims have next to nothing in common with Iran's fire-and-brimstone Shia.
Eric Margolis: The Lessons of Tahrir Square Eric Margolis 2011
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Interestingly, most of the tract-distributing evangelist types nowadays mostly ignore the New Testament, preferring the more ancient fire-and-brimstone God to the one who loved you so much he sent his only Son to save your miserable undeserving soul.
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Along those lines, Mr. Callahan seldom has been described as a fire-and-brimstone coach.
Professor Callahan and His Crew Scott Cacciola 2011
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Bates, a sober, thoughtful, and anything but fire-and-brimstone speaker, traveled to Roswell, New Mexico, in 2009 to make similar warnings at a fundamentalist Christian counterconference on the officially designated anniversary of the supposed crashing of a UFO with “aliens” there in 1947.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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His biographer, Richard Immerman, notes that many Europeans believed that Dulles was “a fire-and-brimstone anti-communist fanatic who would risk the nuclear annihilation of the continent in an effort to blow a hole in the Iron Curtain.”
Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011
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Egypt's Sunni Muslims have next to nothing in common with Iran's fire-and-brimstone Shia.
Eric Margolis: The Lessons of Tahrir Square Eric Margolis 2011
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