as in fire
a destructive burning
the intense heat of the raging inferno repeatedly drove back the firefighters
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Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival while California still battles record-breaking infernos, the scenes of the students learning to build outdoor fires that spark and jump unpredictably now play far differently than when they were shot.
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Alissa Simon, Variety, 25 Jan. 2025
In the days after the fire, Anthony C. Marrone, the Los Angeles County fire chief, hammered the same message over and over: The flames were too ferocious and the winds too intense to stop the infernos of Tuesday night, Jan. 7.
—Jonathan Wolfe, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
This inferno killed at least 12 people, both civilians and firefighters.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 1 Feb. 2025
Most of all, the recurring visions of flames and matches that flicker through the depraved fever dreams of Wild at Heart (1990), a movie in which incandescent imagery looms so large that the opening credits unfold against an inferno of Halloween-orange flames.
—Zach Schonfeld, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2025
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Alissa Simon, Variety, 25 Jan. 2025
In the days after the fire, Anthony C. Marrone, the Los Angeles County fire chief, hammered the same message over and over: The flames were too ferocious and the winds too intense to stop the infernos of Tuesday night, Jan. 7.
—Jonathan Wolfe, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
This inferno killed at least 12 people, both civilians and firefighters.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 1 Feb. 2025
Most of all, the recurring visions of flames and matches that flicker through the depraved fever dreams of Wild at Heart (1990), a movie in which incandescent imagery looms so large that the opening credits unfold against an inferno of Halloween-orange flames.
—Zach Schonfeld, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2025
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“Inferno.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inferno. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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