campfire
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Britain's The Guardian newspaper said the movie "entertains us with creepy campfire tales" but the Hollywood Reporter called it a "dull existential drama" while The Wrap website described it as a "frustrating slog".
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
“It’s like starting a campfire with wet wood versus dry wood,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
On the opening “The Outlaw Cherie Lee,” as if sitting around a campfire, actor Jamie Foxx introduces the mythical story.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
He’s just some mud-brown monstrosity roaming the Vale of Arryn and treating livestock like campfire marshmallows.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026
They’d made no campfire and were dressed as Kaelish peasants, but she’d known what they were right away.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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Maine’s camp culture combines rustic canoe trips and campfires with a polished social ecosystem that brings convoys of black SUVs to the state every summer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
Forest officials will, at times, limit campfires and stove usage because of elevated wildfire risk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2025
The Cairngorms National Park Authority has urged people not to light campfires and barbecues.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025
In Northern California, fire-evacuation “go bags” are normal, campfires are essentially a thing of the past, and even people living outside take fire risks seriously.
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2024
Metaphors like those about celestial campfires or galactic backbones were eventually replaced in most human cultures by another idea; The powerful beings in the sky were promoted to gods.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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