How To Use Fervor In A Sentence

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This is the more surprising given the many build-up signs anticipating much greater outbursts of millenarian fervor around the year 2000.
He took up the cause with evangelical fervor.
These may be true, but these are arguments that appeal to the dispassionate mind of a judge, not the emotional public fervor.
However, beginning in 1993 there was intense messianic fervour in the community.

Such purism and moral fervor seem inimitable for art writing today.
Ten years ago, the Persian Gulf War again dredged up anti-Muslim, anti-Arabic fervor and again I was afraid. An American Story | PopPolitics.com
As they grow up amid the emerging wave of nationalist fervor, their friendship becomes strained as they find themselves on opposite sides.
The chosen 22 walked out into the most expectant atmosphere Lansdowne Road has witnessed in years, the feverish mood of the moment intensified by rival national anthems sung with exceptional fervour.
It will be a nice test of the country's appetite for religious fervor.
His enthusiasm and fervor thrives for good quality electronic dance music.
The audience then applauded themselves with fervour. The Sun
The prime minister's final speech had the desired effect, whipping his party into a patriotic fervour.
Ditto any suggestion of patriotic fervour. The Times Literary Supplement
The result must be dreadful where fervour will poetize without the aidful restraints of art and modesty. England's Antiphon
He responds with the optimism and fervour of the incurable romantic.
If one victim appeased his nervous fervor the trial was over but if his wrought-up feelings desired more his screechings continued until a second victim was secured. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1
Ditto any suggestion of patriotic fervour. The Times Literary Supplement
We're all looking for a bit of excitement and patriotic fervour.
Such things are no doubt very excellent, but they do not promote intensity of feeling, fervour of mind; and as art is in itself an outcry against the animality of human existence, it would be well that the life of the artist should be a practical protest against the so-called decencies of life; and he can best protest by frequenting a tavern and cutting his club. Confessions of a Young Man
They were concerned only with their own religious fervour.
They have an evangelical fervour that turns speakers into born-agains, again and again.
Patriotic fervour is clearly gripping the sunny southwest. Times, Sunday Times
Moreover, few other cities experienced the revolutionary fervour felt in Barcelona. The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge
In their single-minded fervor, they are willing to maim, kill, or leave their phalli behind. Survival of the Kindest
The vehemence of these convictions was matched by the fervor of his antifascism. Devil Dog
Two hundred years ago, revolutionary fervour burnt this church to the ground.
That explains why a regime of immanence has to be delivered with the forceps of a revolutionary fervour and needs to replace education, reflection, information and analysis with propaganda.
If personal fervor is the yardstick upon which systems of belief are to be measured, then perhaps bitblt should convert to Islam. Think Progress » Fox News Televangelist Hume: Tiger Would Be ‘Farther Down The Road’ To ‘Forgiveness’ With Christianity
But next Sunday in Clones a reborn Down team will take on reigning National League Champions Tyrone in a final that promises to deliver a contest of passion and football fervour.
So it was with much excitement and fervour I headed to the cinema, not at all put off by the nay-sayers and givers of negative reviews.
Most notably, William Jennings Bryan, “The Great Commoner” and the fieriest critic of the new concentrations of wealth and power, fused fundamentalist religious fervor and political radicalism, culminating in his famous “Cross of Gold” peroration at the Democratic National Convention of 1896.36 The phrase “What would Jesus do?” was popularized in a bestselling 1899 novel by Charles Sheldon, a Congregational minister in Topeka, Kansas, as an appeal to overturn economic inequality. American Grace
Again she was recalling the fervour with which he had declared himself on this point on that last day when he actually made her believe in him. The Seeker
… On the other hand, it must be obvious, that when Circe’s unfortunate animals are induced to worship chastity, all they see and _worship_ therein, is their opposite — oh! and with what tragic groaning and fervour, may well be imagined — that same painful and thoroughly superfluous opposition which, towards the end of his life, Richard Wagner undoubtedly wished to set to music and to put on the stage, _And to what purpose? The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.
She said it was carried through with great fervor and passion and involved a total commitment to the environment within the school.
The oddly alliterated Fervent Fray of Fraternal Fervor, written and directed by Thomas Thompson, is the second festival offering.
These two provisoes being attended to, then we can safely say that warmth is the test of life, and the readings of the thermometer, which measure the fervour, measure also the reality of our religion. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah
These ministers lost none of their fervor for souls, but they became less mobile and more expensive to support.
The euro seems to be reviled with avidity and fervour wherever one goes, from Holland to the Med.
Joan of Arc, who inspires strange fervors and theories. The Truth About Joan of Arc
This unleashed a moral fervor, ultimately translated into political movements that brought about the end of slavery.
This is not to say that attention has been concentrated on spiritual fervour for its own sake.
Their love for these artifacts often resembles the passion one associates with religious fervor.
“Evolutionism” has tried to become an establishmentarianism institution, though lacks the fundamental scientific basis for reality and credibility, despite repeated religious fervor by individuals who want to distance themselves from their fellow humans, for their own self-seeking purposes. Tangled Bank #71 - The Panda's Thumb
Whether it was his disastrous first confession, the use of his hobby telescope to take in the bronzed Mrs. Selahowski sunbathing next door, the purloined swigs of sacramental wine, or, as he got older, the fumbled attempts to sneak contraband past his father and score with girls beneath his mother's vigilant radar, John was figuring out that the faith and fervor that came so effortlessly to his parents somehow had eluded him. The Longest Trip Home by John Grogan: Book summary
Facade material's tactile sensation and physical design of large window harmoniously reflect with each other, lit resident's life fervor and bring noble life taste.
And most Tories are rebelling against their leader 's fervour for them. Times, Sunday Times
There is always something unnerving about the news media going into bat for their own interests; the moral fervour precludes argument.
Indeed it was the religious fervour of our forebears that caused them to "tremble before the Lord" that early won them the nickname of Quakers from the verb to quake or tremble. Friends Service Council - Nobel Lecture
With great moral fervor, details are dredged up and exhaustive investigations conducted.
Agonising over even the demonstrably dead Afghans bleeding on newspaper front pages does not suit patriotic fervour for this lovely war.
Once there was devotion, piety, fervor, religion, holy priests, purity of heart.
But when the fervor of political passions moves the Executive and the Legislative branches to act in ways inimical to basic constitutional principles, it is the duty of the judiciary to intervene.
John Wesley, when he saw the rising tide of patriotic fervor in America and the trend towards revolution, expressed his strong disapproval. So did the Anglican clergy.
Exhibitions are discussed with almost evangelical fervour. Times, Sunday Times
His website promotes the concept of information agents with enthusiastic fervour.
Only a brief woebegone show of energy from a denim-clad fan to the front creates a slight tickle of fervour, which is a damn shame considering what the bruising the band dole out live. Drowned In Sound // Feed
In two words, which Wilson later apologized for, all the fury and fervor from the raucous health care town halls of August spilled over into the supposedly civil sanctum of the House of Representatives. Obama and Wilson put Democrats on offensive
It had frequently been the practice of the Puritans to form certain assemblies, which they called "prophesyings;" where alternately, as moved by the spirit, they displayed their pious zeal in prayers and exhortations, and raised their own enthusiasm, as well as that of their audience, to the highest pitch, from that social contagion which has so mighty an influence on holy fervors, and from the mutual emulation which arose in those trials of religious eloquence. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I.
From The Atlantic's Fiction Issue: Imbued with the righteous moral fervor of a revolutionary, the negativist -to introduce a new literary type- is more pesuasive than the encomiast, who tends to resort to the bland formulaic language of praise. Take THAT Mr McSweegee
I have to be careful I don't preach to my sybaritic, porky friends with messianic fervour about the joys of healthy eating.
Although, grounded on rational arguments, industrialization shone in their eyes with the fervour of religious dogma. The Origins of Economic Inequality between Nations: A critique of Western theories on development and underdevelopment
It will be a nice test of the country's appetite for religious fervor.
When he raised his gaze to inspect his face, Lat found his eyes agleam with the intensity of his fervour.
This is not to say that attention has been concentrated on spiritual fervour for its own sake.
You're not tempted to stay and feel patriotic fervour? Times, Sunday Times
His fervour is realistic, his striking - power is tempered only by broad-mindedness and humour. Nobel Prize in Literature 1953 - Presentation Speech
These virtues could have been accompanied by a bit more melodramatic fervour, but they still make for a satisfying movie. Times, Sunday Times
The hype and fervor surrounding the event positively invited scepticism.
But since the favor has been extended to other churches, as well as from other reasons, the number is greatly diminished, and consists chiefly of people in _villeggiatura_ near by and of a few hundred Neapolitan peasants, who with undiminished fervor come to obtain the Pardon, and whose singular performance, called _gran ruota_ (the great wheel), everybody goes to see. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880
The decision by Elliot and Fleming to devote themselves to the Quichua was a small part of a wave of evangelical fervor that swept over the Oriente. One River
Sports stars were instrumental in the first wave of revolutionary fervour. Times, Sunday Times
In the birthplace of civilization, we have again run aground on the rocky shoals of nationalism, this time augmented by a religious fervor that increases the danger.
His fervor echoed the outrage of Bishop Irenaeus—a reminder that here, in the shadow of the stark Red Sea Mountains, the early Christian world is close at hand.
We're all looking for a bit of excitement and patriotic fervour.
Among the gentlemen who were her courtiers there was much talk of the fashionable rake Sir John Oxon, who, having appeared at her birthnight supper, had become madly enamoured of her, and had stayed in the country at Eldershawe Park and laid siege to her with all his forces and with much fervour of feeling besides. His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality
How hard it is to find an informed view on this subject, rather than a piece of nationalist fervour masquerading as a political meditation. Times, Sunday Times
In earlier years, Vicky remembered, Sara had attended church more as a social function than from religious fervor. LASTING TREASURES
Meanwhile, belief in extraterrestrial intelligences continues to grow with an almost religious fervour.
The Sikh community of the twin cities celebrated Baisakhi with religious fervour and gaiety here on Wednesday.
She has minimized the revolutionary fervor and emphasis on class struggle that permeate Beaumarchais' original play.
Our cousins across the line, with their population of one hundred million, are still forlornly looking for the great American novel, and remembering the age and character of this Dominion I very much doubt if you will ever have the great Canathan novel, for the author of any such master-piece would have to have the geographical restlessness of a Casey Jones and the lyric fervour of an Archibald Lampman and the diligence of an Arnold Bennett and the humour of a Cervantes and the realism of a Zola and the fantasticism. of a Wilson MacDonald and the scholarship of a Charles G. The Interpreters of Canada
Set to the task of planting, she sowed with a matchless fervor and whacked new ground clear in a disturbing contest of joy. THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
You know, when I'm busy I'm full of dejunking fervour.
The band perform with the such passion and fervour, it's hard to believe some of the songs are over a decade old.
She said it was carried through with great fervor and passion and involved a total commitment to the environment within the school.
In the birthplace of civilization, we have again run aground on the rocky shoals of nationalism, this time augmented by a religious fervor that increases the danger.
His website promotes the concept of information agents with enthusiastic fervour.
Where circumstances are favorable, this proclivity is apt to express itself in a certain servile devotional fervor and a punctilious attention to devout observances; it may perhaps be better characterized as devoutness than as religion. The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions
This, of course, is farfetched from the minds of those who feel betrayed by the luxury of a temporal enjoyment vis-a-vis the spiritual importance of man's mental, physical and spiritual fervors. Restricted hands command glory in jail
Jake was out of gaol again, his face pallid under the black beard but with his fervour burning more brightly than ever. THE WHITE DOVE
The cavalryman was a foot shorter than Sharpe, but he seemed to compensate for his lack of height with a look of Cromwellian fervour and rectitude. Sharpe's Gold
Drudge has covered this hurricane with such passion and fervor, I'm thinking the guy has a bit of a fetish.
She has minimized the revolutionary fervor and emphasis on class struggle that permeate Beaumarchais' original play.
Known for the "dignity of movement and majesty of action" he brought to his acting, Wallack was nevertheless faulted for a lack of dramatic fervor and for an inability to sustain touching pathos. Cast and Characters
There is no fervour, no passion, and no straightforward moral principle.
National or political fervour can alternatively be the motor force of remarkable artistic achievements.
But the content appeared to lack something of the revolutionary fervour that his audience had wanted. Times, Sunday Times
Dallas's oil and gas barons who routinely denounced JFK as a "comsymp" had unbottled the genie of populist rage and harnessed it to the cause of radical ideology, anti-government fervor and corporate dominion. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Tucson: Time for Another Examination of Conscience
Is there another group that seeks the path of rectitude and moderation with the same fervor?
Although, grounded on rational arguments, industrialization shone in their eyes with the fervour of religious dogma. The Origins of Economic Inequality between Nations: A critique of Western theories on development and underdevelopment
At best it could all deliver a boost to nationalist fervour. Times, Sunday Times
The audience then applauded themselves with fervour. The Sun
The suggestion is that his rancour at his relative eclipse within the huge family hierarchy had something to do with the fervour with which he embraced Islam.
Reply Obj. 3: Some have said that charity does not increase in its essence, but only as to its radication in its subject, or according to its fervor. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
I will die here as a martyr," he had declared in February, when compatriots inspired by the region's antiauthoritarian fervor rose in fury against him. Eccentric and Brutal, He Met End as a Fugitive
The furious opposition triggered by gun control efforts flows directly out of what can only be called a religious fervor for empowerment, which is resistant to all logic on the harmfulness of widespread gun availability or the ineffectiveness of violent conflict resolution. Robert Koehler: The Paradox of Disarmament
Secular politics have become boring to many people, evoking apathy rather than fervour. Times, Sunday Times
He is remembered for his religious fervour. Times, Sunday Times
Moreover, few other cities experienced the revolutionary fervour felt in Barcelona. The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge
Such affectionate, in the woman's eyes, is absolutely affection, his love, who come like a storm gather rain dances when fervour, such as after the storm wind light cloud pale.
The French consume densely intellectual tomes with the fervour that we read Jackie Collins.
It also filled me with a kind of religious fervour for the mysteries of the dancefloor. Times, Sunday Times
Something of the rhapsodic style of the first set of these Strauss songs, not to mention their symphonic piano accompaniments, released a superabundance of energy within Kaufmann, and we discovered new dimensions in his artistry: a long-winded breath control, his openhearted romantic fervor, a darkish head tone, and a kind of pure ecstasy in his delivery. Rodney Punt: Jonas Kaufmann Triumphs in Lieder Recital for LA Opera
While temperance reform aimed to abolish the manufacture and sale of alcohol, its goals were not rooted in religious anti-liquor fervors, but on the rights of women and children whose lives were ruined by unemployable and violent drunken men. Dr. Caroline Cicero: Women's Rights -- 91 Years and Still Pedaling a Stationary Bicycle
Merchants, far from being sceptics, were often the agents of religious fervour and proselytism on the shifting trade routes between civilisations.
The men worked with a fervor unusual to see, worked without the incentive of the whip or the bullying cries of the masters-at-arms. Dragons of a Fallen Sun
The sheer amount of poorly controlled data foisted on a poorly informed and easily troubled public was matched only by the catechistic fervor of the authors. The Ugh Factor in 'Healthy' Foods
The arousal of pseudo ‘nationalistic fervour’ by the continuous invocation of a foreign threat as the source of all problems is only the first point of similarity.
He then briefly unfolded to the eagerly listening Bruce (whose aspiring spirit, inflamed by the fervor of youth, and winged by natural courage, saw the glory alone of the enterprise), an attack which he meant to make on the camp of Edward, while his victorious troops slept in fancied security. The Scottish Chiefs
The fervour of her speech showed she felt strongly.
Are those attacks escalating because of religious fervor or because of occupation of homelands by foreign forces?
Still, this is at least a step in the right direction, and perhaps a sign that anti-immigrant fervor is dying down again.
Disposables have been around since at least 1935, primarily as a niche item for trips away from home, but they never broke through to overtake cloth until Pampers hit, tapping into the postwar fervor for all things new, convenient and timesaving — especially among women setting up house in suburbia. Cloth or disposables? Half-century debate still on
The all-consuming fervor of the election is subsiding, leaving the president the thankless task of wrestling with the same uncooperative economy that dogged him throughout his first term.
But religious fervour had to give way to material necessities, and the Tlascalan idols remained unsmitten, although their human sacrifices were somewhat stayed. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development
However, beginning in 1993 there was intense messianic fervour in the community.
But while Norton's lavish tribute may well have had a certain avuncular motive, it's evident that the fervor and clamor of young Kipling's balladry stirred the old Brahmin to his bones. Who Was Kipling?
It was a copy of Samuel Buckley's The Daily Courant, a paper which Man did not often bother to read for its tiresome Whig fervour. MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
There is no fervour, no passion, and no straightforward moral principle.
In some countries, most notably Venezuela, this vintage left-wing, anti-American fervor is not small, but is predominant, which is what has led that country to be under the repressive thumb of Fidel Castro-copy Hugo Chavez, whose primary interest in attending this Latin American regional summit seems to be to lure Bush and the U.S. into some sort of game of childish taunts rather than doing something constructive to aid his impoverished, unstable country. The reality of Latin American reaction to Bush
These virtues could have been accompanied by a bit more melodramatic fervour, but they still make for a worthwhile film. Times, Sunday Times
The timing of this immigration fervor is in time for getting the immigration wedge issue going for election ‘10? when lee atwater’s old index cards are all you have to go on, you tend to end up running the same campaigns over and over and over again. fortunately, amnesiacs like fuzzy and the ‘baggers never catch on that it’s always a re-run. Think Progress » Kristol Supports Arizona Immigration Law: ‘I Don’t Think It Violates Anyone’s Civil Rights’
And he closed the privileged arm of the bridegroom round her waist, that had the yieldingness of the willow-branchlet, the flowingness of the summer sea-wave, and seemed as 'twere melting honey-like at the first gentle pressure; she leaning her head shyly on his shoulder, yet confiding in his faithfulness; it was that she was shy of the great bliss in her bosom, and was made timid by the fervour of her affection; as is sung: The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Volume 4
Religious critics lacked fervor and moral authority, while surviving Populist and Progressive skeptics were dismissed as killjoys or cranks.
And up on Henman Hill they will set up a camp festooned with all those flags and that same fervour seemingly made redundant after that player back-pedalled ignominiously into his own net.
From him even the most intractable pages stir with revolutionary fervour.
He commanded dynamic playing from the young musicians and imbued each score with idiomatic fervor and a wonderful sense of the music's ebb and flow.
But they will be new bottles, when after the ascension of the Lord, they are renewed by desiring His consolation, and then new wine will come to the new bottles, that is, the fervour of the Holy Ghost will fill the hearts of spiritual men. Catena Aurea - Gospel of Mark
The general meaning of the apostle is the same, that it was no sin to marry, if a man thought there was a necessity upon, to avoid popular reproach, much less to avoid the hurrying fervours of lust. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
Hutten had little or none of Luther's religious fervor, but he could not find colors too dark in which to picture to his countrymen the greed of the papal curia, which he described as a vast den, to which everything was dragged which could be filched from the Germans. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe
This poetic output, at a time when post-Chaucerian England was fallow, was a combination of classic grace, religious fervour, eroticism, and bawdry which was almost hypnotic.
National or political fervour can alternatively be the motor force of remarkable artistic achievements.
Fox News has become America's top-rated cable network thanks to its gung-ho reporting and flag-waving fervour. Keith Olbermann abruptly dropped by NBC | Richard Adams
There is an abundance of powerfully voiced republicanism, anticlerical fervour and epicurean life.
The Church used the quest to stimulate fervor for the crusade to refound the celestial city, the New Jerusalem, while secular powers exploited it to forge trade routes to the East.
An atmosphere of piety and religious fervour permeated the building, as the Catholics, many of whom had taken time off from work, gathered in front of a large photo of the Pope placed on the altar.
If the turn of the second millennium was not unlike the first in its lack of eschatological millenarian fervor, the end of the 20th century was much unlike the end of the 19th century.
What's odd, however, is the sheer fervour with which he's using them, eyes blazing, grinning like a devotee of a particularly ecstatic religious cult.
This work drew heavily on the expressionistic fervor that Bolshoi training inculcated into the choreographer.
We also welcome Libby Purves to the pages of the magazine. Her first column extols the virtues of joining in - be it World Cup fervour or Jubilee joy.
On one of the few remaining green leaves a caterpillar is feeding, not with the voracious fervour of the newly hatched but with slow deliberation, as if forcing down a few final mouthfuls. Country diary: South Uist
Bono's passion and political fervour have perhaps been hardest on him.
York came out for the second half with fervour and threatened to sweep North away but they fell victim to losing possession and conceding penalties.
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But let not the debates alienate you from the intellectual and spiritual capacity of religious fervour.
[5237] Unde hic fervor aquis terra erumpentibus uda? Anatomy of Melancholy
Whether such brave ideas can thrive in the rough tide of freedom alongside economic want and nationalist fervour remains to be seen.
The cumulative effect of this conscientious blandness denied Lisa a distinctive personality, which limited the fervor of its users.
The hype and fervor surrounding the event positively invited scepticism.
The euro seems to be reviled with avidity and fervour wherever one goes, from Holland to the Med.
In his barrage of strategies in which folk music could be used to inspire a united fighting force, Lomax paused to take a jealous swipe at a hit record that had won over a nation primed for patriotic fervor: "I need not overstress my opinion that 'God Bless America' and Kate Smith are both extremely dull and mediocre," he wrote. The Catcher of Songs
There is a kind of missionary fervor among those participating in the effort.
To set against this there were many examples of patriotism and patriotic fervour in the town at this time.
There is no evidence anywhere in this film to support her unconventional beliefs, and there is something deeply disturbing about her almost evangelical fervour. Times, Sunday Times
Of course, the immediate step is to embrace the sport of complication with academic fervour.
Half of those present discussed the imminent international confrontations with passion and fervour.
By that time I'd crossed a lot of railway tracks and the fervour of pursuit had been reduced to smouldering embers. Times, Sunday Times
The euro seems to be reviled with avidity and fervour wherever one goes, from Holland to the Med.
It was a copy of Samuel Buckley's The Daily Courant, a paper which Man did not often bother to read for its tiresome Whig fervour. MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
The line between the two went along the valley of the Layon, which divided granite from limestone, bocage from open field, cattle from wheat and vine, religious fervour from indifference, and counter-revolution from republicanism.
Sports stars were instrumental in the first wave of revolutionary fervour. Times, Sunday Times
That love for music, especially that of a bygone era, led to the group's strongest album to date, 2010's "Halcyon Digest," which lyrically explored memories of the underground music scene pre-Internet, the teen fervor for such new sounds, and the ultimate faultiness of said memories. From Rap to the Rapture
You're not tempted to stay and feel patriotic fervour? Times, Sunday Times
Instead of playing with the freedom and intensity of children, they play with the "blend of adolescence and barbarity" that Huizinga calls puerilism, investing games with patriotic and martial fervor while treating serious pursuits as if they were games. The Corruption of Sports
The voices of experiences he had never lived were not nearly as intense now, but they continued to ring through his mind with unceasing fervor.
None of these holidays provokes intense patriotic fervor.
And most Tories are rebelling against their leader 's fervour for them. Times, Sunday Times
It is precisely because he cites statistics, writes logically and avoids ideological fervour that he has been attacked and pilloried by eco-fundamentalists and fellow travellers around the world.
You will have to forgive me (or at least I'm asking you to) for linking news articles with such fervor in recent times.
It was a copy of Samuel Buckley's The Daily Courant, a paper which Man did not often bother to read for its tiresome Whig fervour. MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
I'd like to know where the religious fervor people are that coronated this incompetant disaster. Palin slams Senate health care vote
Nowhere is the collision between neoclassical detachment and Romantic fervour more acutely represented than in these two essays.
A great Niagara of religious fervor is cascading down around them while they stand obtuse and dry in the little cave of their own parochialism — and many of them are journalists and policy analysts, who are paid to keep up with these things. Kicking the Secularist Habit
Bono's passion and political fervour have perhaps been hardest on him.
Patriotic fervour is clearly gripping the sunny southwest. Times, Sunday Times
How sad it was to see so much fervour amongst my own countrymen in taking up the banner of support for the US in their actions against Iraq.
Both Wordsworth and Coleridge left Cambridge with a love of literature, and a revolutionary fervor that would only exacerbate their troubles. Wordsworth & Coleridge I « Tales from the Reading Room
But let not the debates alienate you from the intellectual and spiritual capacity of religious fervour.
Merchants, far from being sceptics, were often the agents of religious fervour and proselytism on the shifting trade routes between civilisations.
With the fervor of the vinously disenfranchised, Riesling lovers have long worshiped the trinity of Germany, Austria and Alsace.
They burned all the books in the blindness of their religious fervor.
It was certainly not pure philanthropy which made them display all that untiring fervor in order to curb the slave trade on the high seas and so halt the development of countries which still maintained slaves.
With the fervour of a convert, she determined to spread her new faith in strongly Protestant Wimbledon.
Viennese mobs erupted in nationalistic fervor, expressed by beating up Jews and destroying their property. Eric R. Kandel - Autobiography
Shadrack and co., would carry them through this fervor unliquefied. Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis
And isn´t it strange that some of us humans proudly aware of our descent from those ugly apemen that once in a time roamed the african savannah appear to have more morals and decency than the heavenly pascha that our superorthodox Calvinist venerates with such fervour. Evolution and Liberal Christianity
But for many people, their faith isn't based around an irrational fervour, and it isn't based around rational logic.
With almost evangelical fervour, Marks warns against deliberately seeking a tan.
The hype and fervour surrounding the event positively invited scepticism.
To youth the evening is delightful—it accords with the flow of his light spirits, the fervor of his fancy, and the softness of his heart.
As he suckled her, she clutched him close, kneading the muscles in his back with growing fervor. Dreams of a Dark Warrior
I admire a lot of things about Protestants and evangelicals - I admire their commitment, their apostolic fervour.
Revolutionary fervour produced discontent at home, and there were frequent uprisings and riots.
She returns for this homecoming concert to remind us why she is currently one of the folk scene's most hotly tipped new acts, blending tradition with imagination and youthful fervour.
Except that, at the risk of sounding ungracious, I find it hard to believe my entire neighbourhood can be attacking this recycling business with the same degree of religious fervour.
The young magistrate had embraced orthodoxy with the fervour of a recent convert.
Margo also informed us of "fervour" on the other side of the Atlantic being whipped up by "talk-show hosts. Archive 2009-08-24
A wave of revolutionary fervour swept across Europe affecting the Fife coalfields powerfully.
The fervour of her speech showed she felt strongly.
Following relatively buttoned-up remarks by FBI Director Robert Mueller, Mr. Dupnik again addressed issues such as antigovernment fervor, lax gun control and what he views as a failed system to deal with the mentally ill. Arizona Elicits Sheriff's Criticism
The prime minister's final speech had the desired effect, whipping his party into a patriotic fervour.
For some time, a desire had been growing in me to externalize some of the internal work I had been pursuing with such fervor, and the richness of Wiccan ritual seemed the perfect vehicle for that expression.
Is there another group that seeks the path of rectitude and moderation with the same fervor?
I wrote an introductory e-mail to farms all over Quebec describing my fervour and verve.
As you rush towards the action figure aisle, your heart speeding in fervour as you make your means to this supernatural toy of imaginativeness. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1118
Should she not always bear within her the seeds of sadness and mistrust, ready to grow up and rob emotion of its springtide of fervor? A Woman of Thirty
The audience then applauded themselves with fervour. The Sun
And to this day fluoridation is still pursued with missionary fervour.
He most likely disapproved of it -- Bobby's crimebuster fervor deeply impressed him. American Tabloid
It would also allow politicians to campaign with an evangelical fervour that I doubt we will witness during the next month. Times, Sunday Times
The Organ Sonata #2 (for a burial ceremony) is an imposing work based on church chorales, but interspersed with moments of extreme romantic fervour.
Southey and Coleridge had been on somewhat strained terms for some time; possibly, as I have said in the previous note, owing to Southey's abandonment of Pantisocratic fervour, which anticipated Coleridge's by some months. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb
The band perform with the such passion and fervour, it's hard to believe some of the songs are over a decade old.
Her fervour is the artist's fervour, the longing, coming really to passion, to hold and fix forever the shapes that were loveliest to her. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
Whether our fervour was driven by an urge to look sporty or an urge to look slimmer is a moot point. Times, Sunday Times
When he raised his gaze to inspect his face, Lat found his eyes agleam with the intensity of his fervour.
Political science, in particular, has gone too far in the direction of behaviouralism and rational choice, theories preached with the same dogmatic fervour that Marxism once attracted. New Statesman
Recite the Holy Qur'an with eagerness and fervour and put all your heart and soul in the recitation.
Half of those present discussed the imminent international confrontations with passion and fervour.
Perversely, such words of steel were meant to calm the American people, not whip them into a vengeful fervour.
None of these holidays provokes intense patriotic fervor.
The so-called “second wave” has breathed new life into a protest that was dwindling in fervor by the day. Global Voices in English » Georgia: Opposition protests enter fifth day
Imbued with the righteous moral fervor of a revolutionary, the negativist — to introduce a new literary type — is more persuasive than the encomiast, who tends to resort to the bland, formulaic language of praise. James Atlas on Disparagement
Recite the Holy Qur'an with eagerness and fervour and put all your heart and soul in the recitation.
Many of the adherents may well be sincere, but, many unscrupulous ones often whip up the masses with religious fervour to commit heinous crimes.
Bishops might preach at church consecrations or at the translation of relics, or go on occasional preaching tours, particularly to promote crusading fervour.
Mr. Butz, 44, plays Carl Hanratty, an FBI agent who pursues Abagnale with Javert-like fervor, ultimately morphing into something of a father figure to him. This Time He's Not the Con Man
It is sufficient for the utmost fervour of gratitude that we are saved from punishments, too great to be conceived; but our salvation is surely not complete, till by the illumination from above, we are made to know 'the exceeding sinfulness of sin,' and that horribleness in its nature, which, while it involves all these frightful consequences, is yet, of itself more affrightful to a regenerated soul than those consequences. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey
If his eyes were filled with a kind of evangelical fervour, he could be forgiven. Times, Sunday Times
Meanwhile, belief in extraterrestrial intelligences continues to grow with an almost religious fervour.
The fervor of the ceremonies was visible on the faces of hundreds of young men in the city of Yazd, dressed in black and beating themselves on the chest to mark the death of Hussein at Karbala in 670 AD. Shi'ites Commemorate Ashura Across Middle East
I suppose you realise that I haven't been blogging with much fervor since returning from the weekend in Florida.
Their love for these artifacts often resembles the passion one associates with religious fervor.
His height, his air, his countenance, were such as always command the attention of crowds; and at this time they received every adjunct from the interest of the occasion, and that peculiar look of intent yet suppressed fervour, which is, perhaps, the sole gift of the eloquent that Nature alone can give. Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes
With the liberation, France threw herself behind Gaullism with such fervor because we were ashamed of our behavior. Vichy's 'Very Nice People'
Drudge has covered this hurricane with such passion and fervor, I'm thinking the guy has a bit of a fetish.
Never be lacking in zeal , but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.
Revolutionary fervour is born from an intense emotional response, sublimated and rationalised. COCOONED • by J.A. Matthews
The keynote was messianic fervour and religious exuberance.
As in the far more lucrative arena of the visual arts, dance lost its oppositional fervor as it accommodated to both political and economic realities.
Neatly dressed, their hair slicked back, they beam as they are roused to fervour for the fatherland by their tutor.
As usual, I dive into this venture with a great and all-consuming fervor, ignoring completely how I'm no music critic by training and instead opening wide to 25+ years of serious music obsessiveness; couple it with a bottle of premium sake and ignore all overwhelming meta Top 10 lists like this one, and it's all sorts of delightful. Mark Morford: The Top 10 Most Awesome Albums of 2011
Another characteristic of the two weeks, upon which we are now entering, is that of giving more abundant alms, and of greater fervour in the exercise of works of mercy. Gueranger: The History of Passiontide and Holy Week
No doubt the crowd was piqued by the post-game smack-talking between the players, who woofed at each other jaw-to-jaw with a pitifully comic fervor reminiscent of weigh-ins at a heavyweight championship bout.
They were concerned only with their own religious fervour.
The high priests of free market fundamentalism continue to force through destructive policies with all the fervour of religious zealots.
Calle San Sebastian still heaves, though the revolutionary fervour seems to have evaporated.
In this way, the evangelical fervors of the Awakening—Perry Miller called them “hysterical agonies”—mutated to serve the cause of independence. The Chosen Peoples
National or political fervour can alternatively be the motor force of remarkable artistic achievements.
Will this patriotic fervor survive the blowback that top government officials believe we may soon experience?
In the 100 days since one of the world's most entrenched dictatorships was toppled, Egypt has borne witness to an explosion of creative energy seeking to memorialise, critique and carry forward the country's moment of revolutionary fervour, a process which has itself revolutionised the country's long-stagnant cultural landscape; buskers can perform without police permits. Egypt's uprising brings DIY spirit out on to the streets
The hype and fervour surrounding the event positively invited scepticism.
It was during this same campaign that apocalyptic fervor swept away the Bull Moose candidate Theodore Roosevelt as well, with his famous declaration: “We stand at Armageddon, and we battle for the Lord.” The Chosen Peoples
In earlier years, Vicky remembered, Sara had attended church more as a social function than from religious fervor. LASTING TREASURES
That hurtling-along-the-edge fervor is what stamped the early slam with its signature. She can drink legally now! : Patricia Smith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
Yet somehow the world failed to end before the war did in 1918, and a series of postwar setbacks curtailed the growth of evangelical fervour. Times, Sunday Times
Whether it was his disastrous first confession, the use of his hobby telescope to take in the bronzed Mrs. Selahowski sunbathing next door, the purloined swigs of sacramental wine, or, as he got older, the fumbled attempts to sneak contraband past his father and score with girls beneath his mother's vigilant radar, John was figuring out that the faith and fervor that came so effortlessly to his parents somehow had eluded him. The Longest Trip Home by John Grogan: Book summary
It further didn't help that all the roommate had to watch was saved episodes of Will and Grace and Sex and the City, both of which celebrate NYC with orgiastic fervor.
Revolutionary fervour produced discontent at home, and there were frequent uprisings and riots.
Similarly, central banks adopted monetarism with a fervor in the late 1970s and early 1980s, just as empirical evidence discrediting the underlying theories was mounting.
Epidemic smallpox surfaced first in Boston, that hotbed of revolutionary fervor.
Before all the Blogs Start I believe that the Palin fervor is more basic then conservative and liberal. Johnston: Palin wanted to take the money, 'forget everything else'
My yearnings for the taste of meat are becoming almost animalistic in their fervour.
They can not survive generation change, unable to transfer revolutional fervor to youth. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
The need to protect agricultural land was neatly allied with the radical planning fervour of the 1930s and 1940s to check the spread of urban areas. Rural Land-Use Planning in Developed Nations
She is not too pleased to find out it is a gorgeous blonde nun behind this fervour. The Sun
The fervour is short-lived, the flame is expelled by its own blast, and leaves a house swept and garnished, inviting devils. Lady Good-for-Nothing
In the early fervour of his fancy he had assured Mrs. Robinson his love would remain unchangeable till death, and that he would prove unalterable to his Perdita through life. Memoirs of Mary Robinson
It would be a caricature to paint the whole country as caught up in messianic fervor. Iranian ‘cult’ of imam sparks controversy
Civil war, revolution, terrorism, and international war are widely condemned by many societies and glorified by others as the acme of patriotic fervor.
The fact that Britain at last opened her eyes to the opportunity afforded to the Allies to rally this powerful people to their side was attributable to the initiative, the assiduity and the fervour of one of the greatest Hebrews of all time: Dr. Chaim Weizmann … Matthew Yglesias » Israel Politics Circa 1947
His current focus is on addressing the conflicts involving both India's Naxalites and Kashmir and pursuing with fervor struggles against evils like corruption and female foeticide, and for social justice. Katherine Marshall: Revolutionary Religion: A Conversation With Swami Agnivesh
There was no nationalist fervour in 19th-century Scotland because there was no need for it. Times, Sunday Times
These may be true, but these are arguments that appeal to the dispassionate mind of a judge, not the emotional public fervor.
And in a cheeky twist, you can see the nationality of your opponent - so you can compete with patriotic fervour. The Sun
Thus, everyone plays the game, not because they believe it, or are committed to it, but because it is (perceived to be) the only game in town and because, after 1660, revolutionary fervor is distinctly passé.
Many of the adherents may well be sincere, but, many unscrupulous ones often whip up the masses with religious fervour to commit heinous crimes.
An unfriendly critic at this time describes "his countenance swollen and reddish, his voice sharp and untuneable, and his eloquence full of fervor. Early European History
Indeed, he may even show a new fervor about convincing and converting other people to his view.
Down on the south coast, in the pit of partisan fervour, there have been rumblings of discontent. Times, Sunday Times
She kissed him with unusual fervour.
It engorges his tree of liberty with the blood of patriotic fervor, and by doing so, makes him feel powerful and in control, as if he were still the master of his plantation or the chairman of his town's White Citizens' Council. Show us your prenises
I suppose you realise that I haven't been blogging with much fervor since returning from the weekend in Florida.
Set to the task of planting, she sowed with a matchless fervor and whacked new ground clear in a disturbing contest of joy. THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
The prime minister's final speech had the desired effect, whipping his party into a patriotic fervour.
_Bahut, bahut salaam_, [22] Sahib!" he broke out in a tremulous fervour of gratitude. Captain Desmond, V.C.
By the time that Scott came to his 'teens, Mrs. Brenton was doing her level and conscientious best to conceal from him the demoralizing fact of her belief that he could do almost no wrong, and she clung to the modifying _almost_ with a passionate fervour born of her clerical ancestry and her consequent belief in the inherent viciousness of unconverted man. The Brentons
This season, Jim Telfer has been lending his experience and infectious fervour and pugnacity to Scotland's rucking and mauling and at times there did seem more of the dynamic impact of bygone days.
Here was real fervour, real belief. Times, Sunday Times
From the number of e-mails I've received from the "disagreeables," those people who are reading my articles and asking me in Sean Hannityesque fervor why I hate America, I have to admit that several more among the animal kingdom, in addition to Barney-the-dog and Laura-the-wife, remain loyal in buttressing George. The Blood of October
And isn´t it strange that some of us humans proudly aware of our descent from those ugly apemen that once in a time roamed the african savannah appear to have more morals and decency than the heavenly pascha that our superorthodox Calvinist venerates with such fervour. Evolution and Liberal Christianity
So it was with much excitement and fervour I headed to the cinema, not at all put off by the nay-sayers and givers of negative reviews.
And in a cheeky twist, you can see the nationality of your opponent - so you can compete with patriotic fervour. The Sun
His religious fervor, however, decreased in direct proportion to the bountifulness with which heaven rewarded his prayers. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir
Even longer were the hours spent with a torch, scouring the interior of the dark continent with all the fervour of a Christian missionary seeking out the Godless.
This concentration and earnestness, this _perfervor_ of our Spare Hours
The audience then applauded themselves with fervour. The Sun
It is a windy day, and the church is barely three-quarters full, indicating, the narrator tells us, the general loss of religious fervor in the city, where superstition has replaced religion.
It's really too bad that the Scopes Trial, and attendant religeous fervor, is relevant at all today, but we have "Intelligent (sic) Design" and "Creationism" being pushed on people by well-heeled manipulators like Ayatollah Robertson. View from the Northern Border
What you'll notice more than at any other time in the history of the show is it is focusing its fervor, intent on not only exploiting a point or political agenda, but also overselling it outright to the audience.
But Italian style is famous worldwide; interior designers flock to the Milan furniture fair with the same fervour as fashionistas watch the city's catwalks.
And up on Henman Hill they will set up a camp festooned with all those flags and that same fervour seemingly made redundant after that player back-pedalled ignominiously into his own net.
The economic crisis fomented significant unrest in both countries, leading to a rise in nationalist fervor and rhetoric.
She is not too pleased to find out it is a gorgeous blonde nun behind this fervour. The Sun
The audience then applauded themselves with fervour. The Sun
Today's GOP antiscience fervor is somewhat new for America. Shawn Lawrence Otto: GOP Antiscientists Are Leading America Down a Dangerous Road
The truth is that all of the varieties of skepticism, materialism, and spiritual fervor are found in the range of tribal societies.
An eloquent statesman, now gone to his rest, had come into public life at a period when the mad fervour of the French revolution had inclined men to think that liberty, as they termed licentiousness and anarchy, was the greatest blessing bestowed by God upon man, had himself strongly imbibed that feeling and did much to impress it especially upon Kentucky and Maryland. Our cause in harmony with the purposes of God in Christ Jesus : a sermon preached in Christ Church, Savannah, on Thursday, September 18th, 1862, being the day set forth by the President of the Confederate States, as a day of prayer and thanksgiving, for o
But the content appeared to lack something of the revolutionary fervour that his audience had wanted. Times, Sunday Times
He took up the cause with evangelical fervour.
A thankless role of a zealous townsman who whips up religious fervor and negative sentiment against Grimes, Bob Boles is far less showy than Mrs. Sedley, a character who serves a similar function but receives much more attention. Crazy About the Boy

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