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fire-and-brimstone

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fire-and-brimstone
adj
(of a sermon, preacher, etc.) zealous, esp in threatening eternal damnation


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The firm manner in which Brooks still motivates and leads, even if he's less fire-and-brimstone than the Brooks of old.
Unlike most district attorneys, who serve as administrators over their offices and leave the trial work to subordinates, he participated in many of these death-penalty cases himself, making tearful, fire-and-brimstone closing arguments before juries made up of people who believed in him and had voted for him.
2 DEERHOOF, REVEILLE; WILCO, YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT; ANDREW WK, I GET WET Reveille is a hook-laden, schizophrenic, post--punk rock album rife with churchy titles and fire-and-brimstone themes of nature wresting back the earth from "death and mankind.
 
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