hell
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To paraphrase the maxim falsely attributed to Lincoln, you can fool a whole bunch of the people for a hell of a long time, but you can’t fool all of them forever.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
Unfortunately he only ever moved from "two bar hell to three bar purgatory".
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
“I want to keep doing fun things. I want to keep being challenged. … I don’t really know where I’m going, but something will excite me, and I’d be like, ‘OK, what the hell?’
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
You need to go through hell to be mentally ready for this.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
If he had, certainly, all hell would have broken loose.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
Background characters are presented as translucid entities reinforcing the idea that most of us, trapped in routinary hells, are already ghosts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2023
It’s going to be one hell of an offseason, and there’s nothing like hells of offseasons.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2021
On August 4th, we watched from our separate hells as a 40,000-foot cloud the color of bruised flesh collapsed over the ridge west of Greenville.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2021
Even the most “normal” version of this show, though, is odd and inquisitive, with a lot to say about how we create our own paradises and hells.
From The Verge ● Dec. 12, 2018
Another woman would have shrieked at him, cursed him, damned him down to seven hells.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
