fiery

Richard Lloyd, the fiery guitarist of the influential New York rock band Television, has died.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2026

But seasoned leaf-peepers know that Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park and Shenandoah Valley are equally majestic places for autumn color, thanks to sugar maples, magnolias and more vegetation that erupts in fiery reds, oranges and yellows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Shadab was unflappable in the face of such a monumental task, supported by the fiery Rauf.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

In an unusually fiery speech last month at the United Nations General Assembly, Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten vowed to defend the ICC "in my country, in my city".

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

A small shadow stepped from behind the trunk, and in the fiery glow of the sky, I saw a tiny, fairylike creature.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

On another side of town, and in another fictional world, sketch-comedy group The Habit tries on a fierier stage adaptation with a much higher body count: the 1988 Christmas Eve action-thriller “Die Hard.”

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 12, 2019

With the help of a public speaking coach, he returned to the debates as a decidedly fierier presence.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 21, 2016

He was fierier than most Plowshares activists, a believer in miracles and prophecy, a bold “warrior for peace,” like Philip Berrigan.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 28, 2015

While Mr. Boreyko led the orchestra in brisk, burnished readings — the brasses, not always the Philharmonic’s rock, were particularly strong — the final Allegro of the Dvorak could have been fierier.

From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2012

But he was evermore mine enemy, And hates the Spaniard—fiery-choleric, A drinker of black, strong, volcanic wines, That ever make him fierier.

From Queen Mary and Harold by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson

The paper reported that there were parents in favor of the mask mandate, but some of the fieriest speeches came from those diametrically opposed.

From Fox News ● Aug. 18, 2021

Portraying Franklin - one of the last century's fieriest singers - is a daunting task, but although Hudson has a powerful voice, she can't come close to embodying the richness and range of Franklin's style.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2021

Todd Stottlemyre, known as one of the fieriest pitchers of his era, won 138 games in the majors from 1988 to 2002.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 17, 2016

Thomas’ dissent is, in many ways, the fieriest of the bunch.

From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2015

You may scribble off prose in the fieriest frenzy—who so fiery and frenzied as your journalist with the printer's devil at his elbow?—but if you would aspire to Parnassus, you must go slow and steady.

From Without Prejudice by Israel Zangwill