fulminate
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Mr. Lanthimos isn’t the type to thunder and fulminate and declare his themes, and the film doesn’t really align with any particular political outlook.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
Despite this, Burger showed mercy to Hammond and gracefully accepted his apology, though he continued to fulminate about Beckwith and the Time story.
From Washington Post ● May 2, 2022
They fulminate in caustic tirades at the condemned, whose sentence is never in doubt and whose guilt is never in question.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2021
“Amy would fulminate and care deeply about issues,” said one former mayoral aide.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2021
The first trials of the new fulminate were made in the presence of Yakub, and were most successful; the invention proved of the greatest use to the Khalifa.
From Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892 by F. R. Wingate
Mr. Vance fulminates: “Never have I read a purer distillation of our worship at the altar of commerce.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
“They are coming, they are coming, they are coming!” he fulminates in a clip the parents’ legal team plays for him during his 2019 deposition, at which he seems unmoved.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2024
“But even if money spent now saves money later, so what?” he fulminates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2021
He fulminates fire, of course, if he has remembered to change his flint, and, all in all, it’s just as well that he is invisible most of the time.
From Time ● Aug. 11, 2016
Monsieur Bertholet, by dissolving silver in the nitrous acid, precipitating it with lime-water, and drying the precipitate on ammoniac, has discovered a powder, which fulminates most powerfully, on coming into contact with any substance whatever.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
Ferguson stared deep into the night while, behind him, his coaching staff of Neil McCann, Allan McGregor and Billy Dodds fulminated.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2025
For two years, the state quietly investigated the matter while Villanueva fulminated about it at seemingly every opportunity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2024
Kim Jong-il was exasperated by his compatriots’ lack of drive and creativity, and bizarrely fulminated against excessive ideology and dogma in North Korean films, secret recordings aired in a new documentary reveal.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 3, 2016
While other preachers fulminated about damnation, Rev. Schuller offered his congregation a theology that he described as “possibility thinking.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 2, 2015
The buffoons and mimes and masquers, against whom the Church had fulminated in the Middle Ages, and whom the scholars of the Revival looked down upon with condescending indulgence, now lifted up their heads.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi
It is an unusually nuanced take on a subject that too often generates reflexive fulminating or fawning, and a truly auspicious start to the New Museum’s new chapter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
Much of the time is spent ruminating, fulminating and kvetching, kind of like life, which makes it a radical departure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2022
Marsan and Kinnear are the two poles of the production, with Kinnear bringing his trademarked thoughtful chill to the fascist frontman and Marsan fulminating entertainingly as the head of the resistance.
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2022
First Lady Edith Wilson practically ran the White House, leaving opponents fulminating about "government by petticoat".
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2019
Gregory XIV. addressed to the consistory a fulminating allocution, and a flood of controversial tracts on either side swept over Germany.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz
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