infernal

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In “The Getaway”—filmed twice for the big screen—Doc and Carol McCoy conclude their escape hiding in caves, then a hut made of dung, before they end up in the infernal domain of El Rey.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

Her right hand, fingers curled, rests on the infernal machine, while her left hand is open on the windowsill.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2025

Its three suns move and align in such a way as to create regular but random apocalyptic events, from infernal heat to sudden ice ages to gravitational vortexes, that destroy the civilization again and again.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2024

For now, all scientists can do is monitor the infernal proceedings—and hope that their observations will, eventually, reveal the secrets behind this novel show of volcanic force.

From National Geographic • Dec. 19, 2023

For there were really two dreams, the first like a dim, blurred, infernal foreshadowing of the second.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin