firebrand

In a 2009 profile of the right-wing firebrand, The New Yorker called Savage “a heretic among heretics.”

In it, the firebrand Republican senator from Texas is depicted as a kid-friendly “passionate fighter for limited government.”

The Texas firebrand made a name for himself by going after more moderate Republicans.

But with the 2016 presidential season on the horizon, the Texas firebrand has subtly changed his tune over the last six months.

She was the third-wave feminism firebrand, famous and lauded.

How otherwise could the name of mother-in-law, on the stage and in divers domestic circles, have become a synonym for firebrand?

He was a firebrand, infinitely more dangerous and incendiary than any Abolitionist whom he denounced.

Always in my dreams it reached its climax when that living firebrand went tearing off into the thickets.

If he was Siegfried the gay, she was Chriemhild the grim; and as likely to prove a firebrand as the girl in the ballad.

She would almost rather live next to a talking machine than a firebrand.