What's the difference between firestorm and inferno?

Firestorm


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Example Sentences:

  • (1) In an interview with Fox News’s Megyn Kelly on Monday night, Jeb Bush was asked: “Knowing what we know now, would you have authorized the invasion?” The former Florida governor replied: “I would have, and so would have Hillary Clinton, just to remind everybody, and so would have almost everybody that was confronted with the intelligence they got.” The answer provoked an immediate firestorm.
  • (2) That crowded, baroque city, with its high tally of wooden buildings, was incinerated on the night of 13 February 1944 in a man-made firestorm that destroyed 90% of the city centre.
  • (3) Even after yesterday's dreadful GDP figures , a year on from the financial firestorm, it has become apparent that we are not about to suffer a full rerun of America's Great Depression.
  • (4) November 6, 2012 And then there was that little matter earlier this month in which Trump sparked a firestorm by claiming on Twitter, without producing any evidence, that President Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower.
  • (5) Keys said he was shocked by the "firestorm" caused by his comments but said he understood if they led to him also losing his job.
  • (6) What began in 2006 as a mission to expand its reach soon attracted a firestorm of criticism and concern over Google's dedication to freedom of information.
  • (7) In the wake of immediate firestorms and ensuing PR disasters, Keller, Gopman and Shih all apologized for their remarks.
  • (8) Maybe violent impulses now get pushed elsewhere, as evidenced by the apparent epidemic of teenage online bullying and the great firestorms of misanthropy that roar across Twitter.
  • (9) As well as its coverage of the Snowden revelations, the judges were impressed by theguardian.com's innovative reporting of the Holmes family's desperate attempts to escape the Tasmanian firestorm, among other projects.
  • (10) Clegg’s “economic firestorm” is the latest piece of myth weaving.
  • (11) It was the latest in a series of humiliations for Donald Sterling since the celebrity news site TMZ.com in April posted audio of him denigrating black people , igniting a firestorm of condemnation led by President Barack Obama.
  • (12) Sterling, who ignited a firestorm after being caught on tape making derogatory remarks about black people, reportedly stated a desire to keep hold of the Clippers, raising the spectre of a protracted, bruising tussle for a franchise estimated to be worth more than $1bn.
  • (13) He set off a firestorm recently with a new routine that delves into the sexual abuse allegations against comedy icon Bill Cosby .
  • (14) A group of Beyoncé’s backup dancers created a political firestorm when they were photographed at the Super Bowl last weekend, dressed in Black Panther-inspired costumes, holding a sign that read “Justice 4 Mario Woods”.
  • (15) The version of illegal warrantless wiretapping that the New York Times revealed in 2005, which sparked a firestorm of liberal criticism and widespread accusations of illegal conduct, was the program that Comey was totally fine with and signed off on.
  • (16) Secretive is not the word – I think she’s just more private, less expressive, than he is.” For Dumas, the current firestorm over Clinton’s exclusive use of a private email address for all her official business as secretary of state between 2009 and 2013 was utterly in character.
  • (17) In patients with firestorm fibrosis, aggressive treatment with constant suction drainage and methylprednisolone irrigation warrants further study.
  • (18) Localism is his biggest idea, an approach he has long been keen on but one which last year looked unequal to the task of rebuilding an economy engulfed in a global firestorm.
  • (19) Wooden homes had been burnt to the ground by firestorms; the city’s rivers were filled with the corpses of people desperately seeking water before they died.
  • (20) The losses at JP Morgan's London offices have caused a political firestorm in the US and led to calls for tighter regulation of Wall Street banks.

Inferno


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Example Sentences:

  • (1) On the other side of the school, events had taken on an Inferno-esque turn.
  • (2) One turns up for bums, rampant historical misrepresentation and a man in a wig roaring "spiritus sanctus" in a 13th-century CGI inferno.
  • (3) For assassination attempts, oil spills, pirates and a hellish inferno outside Waco, Texas – read on.
  • (4) You've written a book called The Moronic Inferno .")
  • (5) Craning forwards it was hard to know whether to feel thrilled at the sight of this white-hot inferno of British justice, or simply terribly depressed that it should have come to this for noble old Liverpool FC.
  • (6) But damage was widespread with more than 90 tents and dozens of prefabricated housing units going up in flames and vast numbers of refugees losing their meagre belongings to the inferno.
  • (7) He sees his job unequivocally as the defence of high culture: no negotiations with the moronic inferno.
  • (8) Her childhood, according to a British biographer, Emma Gilbey, "was a blistering inferno of racial hatred".
  • (9) Based loosely on Dante's Inferno, the novel once again features Harvard symbolist Robert Langdon – the protagonist from best-sellers The Da Vinci Code and The Lost Symbol – as it follows Sienna, his balding female companion, to the sprawling city of 13 million.
  • (10) They told him fires had raged around their homes for a week before they succumbed to the inferno.
  • (11) Officials at the RWE npower-owned site shut down the site quickly to stop the incident turning into an inferno.
  • (12) Now, with the compounding effects of days in the inferno, with little or no medication or fluids, they had deteriorated.
  • (13) All 16 Graves disease patients exhibited a pulsatile pattern we call "thyroid inferno."
  • (14) It was while working along the US-Mexican border, in an inferno of violence and addiction, that I came to see the wisdom of the proposed Colombian strategy.
  • (15) Yanukovych's concessions on Friday ended 48 hours of violence that had turned the centre of Kiev into an inferno of blazing barricades.
  • (16) "You have thrown your family into an inferno," it stated.
  • (17) Mariluce advised us not to take photographs as we looped through one alleyway in a part of the favela called Inferno Verde (Green Hell).
  • (18) Yet the Vatican's chief astronomer, Gabriel Funes, recently announced that Catholics should actually welcome aliens as our extraterrestrial brothers, quoting Dante's Inferno as his mission statement: "Where we came forth, and once more saw the stars."
  • (19) The impact of the thousands of bombs dropped on Guernica, of the aircraft machine guns strafing civilians trying to flee the inferno, is still felt to this day – by the elderly survivors, who will eagerly share their vivid memories, as well as by Guernica's youth, who are struggling to forge a future for their town out of its painful history.
  • (20) Rauschenberg created the 38 Inferno drawings as a modern counterpoint to Dante and Virgil's journey through hell, replacing Dante's characters with his own heroes, American figures like Pollock and de Kooning.

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