These ideas became known to his Spanish rulers, and to assuage them he wrote a philippic called the Mars gallicus ( 1635 ), a violent attack on French ambitions generally, and on Cardinal Richelieu's indifference to international Catholic interests in particular.

" No stronger proof ," says Pattison, " can be given of the impressions produced by this powerful philippic, dedicated to the defamation of an individual, than that it had been the source from which the biography of Scaliger, as it now stands in our biographical collections, has mainly flowed.

" On 13 January he published in L ' Aurore, under the title J ' Accuse, an open letter to the president of the republic, an eloquent philippic against the enemies " of truth and justice.

The ballet work is on the nose, especially in the opening number by `` The New Ashmolean Marching Society and Students' Conservatory Band '', along with a fiery and sultry Brazilian fantasia later.

*" It is better to cast oneself into a fiery furnace than publicly to put to shame one's fellow creature " ( Bava Metzia 59a ).

In view of the durability of meteoric iron, metal came to be associated with the aether, which is sometimes conflated with Stoic pneuma, as both terms originally referred to air ( the former being higher, brighter, more fiery or celestial and the latter being merely warmer, and thus vital or biogenetic ).

Catholics also believe in a purgatory for those who are going to heaven, but Christians in general believe that Hell is a fiery place of torment that never ceases, called the Lake of Fire.

We are told also, that the Demiurge is of a fiery nature, the words of Moses being applied to him, “ the Lord our God is a burning and consuming fire ,” a text used also by Simon.

This miracle is said to have been performed on the same day on which the three men were cast into the fiery furnace ; namely, on the Sabbath and the Day of Atonement ( Cant.

Not much is known about her beyond her fiery temperament.

Anaximenes of Miletus believed that " the earth is flat and rides on air ; in the same way the sun and the moon and the other heavenly bodies, which are all fiery, ride the air because of their flatness.

Aristotle ( 384 – 322 BC ), however, believed the Milky Way to be caused by " the ignition of the fiery exhalation of some stars which were large, numerous and close together " and that the " ignition takes place in the upper part of the atmosphere, in the region of the world which is continuous with the heavenly motions.

Under trichromatic light, it is a fiery orange red, almost indistinguishable from the appearance of erbium oxide under the same lighting conditions.

Kurtz's inexperienced, scientific self in the fiery report is alive with the possibility of the cultivation and conversion of the savages.

The opera, written in the genre of opéra comique with musical numbers separated by dialogue, tells the story of the downfall of Don José, a naive soldier who is seduced by the wiles of the fiery gypsy Carmen.

In response to the minister's fiery threat that his men would never come out again if they were not allowed to participate, Stark is reported to have said, " Would you go now on this dark and rainy night?

Georges is a fiery tempered selfish slob and smoker who prefers red meat to vegetarian food, while Brontë is shown as a somewhat uptight and cold liberal progressive obsessed with her plants and wrapped up in environmental issues.

In Italy it was customary to scatter rose petals from the ceiling of the churches to recall the miracle of the fiery tongues ; hence in Sicily and elsewhere in Italy Whitsunday is called Pasqua rosatum.

The comet is represented on the Bayeux Tapestry as a fiery star, and the surviving accounts describe it as appearing to be four times the size of Venus and shining with a light equal to a quarter of that of the Moon.

In the climax of the movie, she is engulfed in a fiery aura as she holds back a tsunami of water from a burst dam to save the other X-Men.

* The most common feature is the presence of spicules, long thin fingers of luminous gas which appear like the blades of a huge field of fiery grass growing upwards from the photosphere below.

The sunflower is named after its huge, fiery blooms, whose shape and image are often used to depict the sun.

The venom of the serpent is thought to have a fiery quality similar to a fire spitting dragon.

* 4th century BC — Aristotle believes the Milky Way to be caused by " the ignition of the fiery exhalation of some stars which were large, numerous and close together " and that the " ignition takes place in the upper part of the atmosphere, in the region of the world which is continuous with the heavenly motions ",

The RAE's emblem is a fiery crucible, and its motto is "" (" cleans, sets, and casts splendour ").

The volume is a piece of passionate special pleading, written with the heat -- and often with the wisdom, it must be said -- of a Liberal damning the shortsightedness of politicians from 1782 to 1832.

Grigson had spent 15 years testifying for such cases, and he almost invariably gave the same damning testimony, often saying that it is " one hundred per cent certain " that the defendant would kill again.

That such things should be done once is a damning disgrace to the portion of our race which did them ; that the door should be left open to their ever so barely possible repetition would spread that shame over the world!

However, Widukind does not even mention such an event in his contemporary Res gestae saxonicae sive annalium libri tres or " Deeds of the Saxons ", which, considering Widukind was at least partly writing to promote Otto I and his family, is damning to Adam of Bremen's claims.

A damning portrayal of the procedure is found in Ken Kesey's 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and its 1975 movie adaptation.

This is him investigating misogyny, exploring it and animating it and obviously damning it because none of the men come out smelling of roses.

In 2004 he surfaced in the media with a damning critique of the University of Melbourne's experimentation with what he says are risky financial ventures and what he argues is its departure from its public mission.

It is a damning judgement ".

Similar words such as " damning " or " damnation " are normally overlooked in this aspect ; the expletive is usually the only form targeted by PG or TV-PG censorship.

' In chic circles, anyone damning rock ' n ' roll is labeled not only square but uncultured.

It is in keeping with the somewhat malicious saying about Foxe, reported by William Tyndale, that he would sacrifice his father to save his king, which is not so damning as Wolsey's dying words.

" This is a damning indictment of the old unionism.

" This is manifested in her overt favouritism towards the " good payers '" children, and in her complete disrespect and marginalisation of the " bad payers '" children: Mrs. Creevy is even seen to manage a better cut of meat for the children of " good payers ", while saving the fattier pieces for the " medium payers " and damning the " bad payers " children to eat brown bag lunches in the school room, apart from the rest of the students.

The intent is to bring to the public light information that is damning, shocking, outrageous, or amazing, yet also somewhat obscure or unreported by more mainstream media sources.

Firsching claims that " The fact that the film's sole spokesperson for the anti-exploitation perspective is played by porno star Kerman should give an indication of where its sympathies lie ", while Schager says Deodato is " pathetically justifying the unrepentant carnage by posthumously damning his eaten filmmaker protagonists with a ' who are the real monsters – the cannibals or us?

The turning point in the trial is Katerina's damning testimony against Dmitri.

Anne is then seen typing a letter to Jack Burke and enclosing the damning photos and negatives.

Bishop Dyer is also known to have fallible characteristics, sometimes “ forgetting the minister in the fury of a common man .” With his authority, he could declare any person a heretic, and with the threat of excommunication from the Mormon sect ( causing them to “ face the damning of soul to perdition ”), force them to act in ways that would benefit the Mormon Council.

The case against Arthur seems rather damning, yet Holmes is not convinced of his guilt.

Even after he obtains a near match, however, he is still unwilling to make such a damning accusation.