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
“Amy would fulminate and care deeply about issues,” said one former mayoral aide.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2021
Except for an unseemly moment in which Wolfe is permitted to fulminate against unspecified critics who accused him of botching the American response to Ebola, virology now disappears.
From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2021
The candidate himself would fulminate in his own speech about violence in the streets, but Don Jr. eloquently heralded his father’s common touch.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 2020
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
When he fulminates against the Pekin government or against the acts of an overbearing viceroy, his words are attentively listened to and carry weight.
From East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan by Frederic Courtland Penfield
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
They fulminated against the notion that affidavits could be submitted after the close of an extradition hearing; it was repugnant to “universally accepted principles of law” for Root even to consider this new evidence.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 13, 2022
Where once the tabloid press fulminated against the prize’s nominees, these days much art world discussion takes place in more specialized publications and on social media.
From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2021
Even as the House voted and Trump fulminated, small-town life here went on: Folks finished up work chores, dashed to the post office to send Christmas cards and donned gaudy holiday sweaters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2019
He fulminated against the Emperor from Jersey his book Napoleon the Little.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe
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
The episode provides a stark example of the foundation fulminating against forcing people from their homes while pursuing evictions against its own residents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2023
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
With a well-developed culture already in the bottle, they "would have been attacked by a tetanus of the fulminating variety".
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2020
The attack on Rousseau, contained in many fulminating pages of the Letter to a Member of the National Assembly, is extravagant and unjust.
From Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse
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