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fire and brimstone

noun as in eternal damnation

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One speaker, while displaying an image of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, screamed, with true fire-and-brimstone energy, “I prophesy they’re going to jail!”

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Emerson’s sermons are not all fire-and-brimstone.

Emerson’s sermons are not all fire-and-brimstone.

A kind of fire-and-brimstone sitcom with a tone somewhere between the gloomy wit of “Bojack Horseman” and the wry, whimsical misanthropy of “Don’t Trust the B____ in Apartment 23,” the series is both dark and cheerful, thrumming with upbeat verve while also tackling turbulent issues.

The pattern is so obvious that Republicans who were previously fire-and-brimstone abortion opponents are now curiously mum.

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