How To Use Vehemence In A Sentence
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Bishop Secker says, that Lord Stanhope "spoke a precomposed speech, which he held in his hand, with great tremblings and agitations, and hesitated frequently in the midst of great vehemence.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
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That I may never see to-morrow, "he proceeded, with vehemence," but I'd rather rob ten rich men than harish one poor family.
Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
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Continuously absorb each kind oftechnique essence in the market competition of the vehemence.
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The islanders had been blindsided before; it was never wise to underestimate the potential vehemence of such conditions.
GALILEE
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She was surprised by the vehemence of his reply.
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Again, this profusion of literary talent, and eloquency and vehemence and skill in moral teaching, is of itself, as human nature now exists,
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
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She was surprised by the vehemence of his reply.
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In the vehemence of their indignation, the general public somewhat forget that poverty and affluence can be equally conducive to moral depravity.
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That bad, _bad_ Dakota Joe!" interrupted the Indian girl with vehemence, her eyes flashing and the color deeping in her bronze cheeks.
Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies
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To such a degree does blind fury infatuate men, when once the vehemence of contention has prevailed, that they carelessly despise death, when placed before their eyes.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1
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She began cursing with bitter vehemence and knocked the remaining pots around to a crescendo of reverberating noise.
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Even Bernhard was taken aback by the vehemence of the response.
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It was a measure of her political intelligence that, despite the vehemence with which she expressed her views, she remained one of her party's stars.
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Nowhere are there particular untuneful or heavy sounds, though now and then the music comes with vehemence.
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The advertisement is one of the marketing ways, the vehemence of work in process market battles out a war amid, have full important act.
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Dudley delivered his puzzling harangue with a good deal of undertoned vehemence, and was strangely agitated.
Uncle Silas
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Our batteries were dashing across the plain with frightful vehemence, wheeling into position and firing with terrific rapidity.
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The vehemence of the Government's campaign against alcohol poisoning has raised suspicions of it having ulterior motives.
Times, Sunday Times
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But she was seized by that excess of bravery which is called foolhardiness, and driven by it to that peculiar and thoughtless vehemence of action which sometimes wins V. C.'s for men who, in later days, conceal amazement under the cherished decoration.
The Prophet of Berkeley Square
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There is one principle with which, as we were saying, a man learns, another with which he is angry; the third, having many forms, has no special name, but is denoted by the general term appetitive, from the extraordinary strength and vehemence of the desires of eating and drinking and the other sensual appetites which are the main elements of it; also money-loving, because such desires are generally satisfied by the help of money.
The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett
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Through his vehemence he made many adversaries, particularly among the Academic and Epicurean philosophers.
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Otis and the Times preached the open shop with such vehemence that it was almost inevitable that they would become targets of prounion wrath.
Dynamite and Deadlines
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Yet, in the several intervals between these periods, they have exhausted the powers of their rhetoric and the vehemence of their vindictive passions, in denouncing what they term the unequal asperities of the social and political surface.
The Two Rebellions; or, Treason Unmasked.
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The difference is one of volume and permanence in the rival satisfactions, and the attitude conscience will assume toward these depends more on the representability of the demands compared than on their original vehemence or ultimate results.
The Life of Reason
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He repudiated the "higher criticism" with a vehemence that caused him to be sharply assailed by modern critics -- pronounced infidels or of infidel proclivities -- who called him a "bibliolater.
T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him
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It exhibits, he writes, ‘a vehemence and rapidity of mind, a copiousness of images, and vivacity of diction.’
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That's where the vehemence and anger and rage comes from.
Times, Sunday Times
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During the period which this required O'Grady was looking down sulkily or looking up fiercely, and striking his heel with vehemence into the sod, while Dick Dawson was whistling a planxty and eyeing his man.
Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes
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In this machine the air in a large vessel is compressed by a column of water 260 feet high, a stop-cock is then opened, and as the air issues out with great vehemence, and thus becomes immediately greatly expanded, so much cold is produced that the moisture from this stream of air is precipitated in the form of snow, and ice is formed adhering to the nosel of the cock.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
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Now the effect of the vice of lust is that the lower appetite, namely the concupiscible, is most vehemently intent on its object, to wit, the object of pleasure, on account of the vehemence of the pleasure.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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I was surprised and a little embarrassed at my own vehemence, but reactions to Chomsky do tend toward the passionate.
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My faith, the very name begets a towering conceit wherever it goes," he answered, and he brought his stick down on the floor with such vehemence that the emerald and ruby rings rattled on his shrunken fingers.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
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I begin to wonder about your vehemence, have you ever heard the term ego-dystonic homosexuality?
On Same-Sex Couples and Catfish Derbies
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Whilst the textbook controversy could be seen as simply a repetition of previous incidents, the events of April are significant because of the scale and vehemence of the protests.
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The film places them in a situation where they are attacked with relentless vehemence by a faceless enemy they know very little of.
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These advantages were defended with corresponding vehemence, and less by the pen than by action.
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She argued with such vehemence against the proposal that they decided to abandon it.
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The vehemence of these convictions was matched by the fervor of his antifascism.
Devil Dog
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This year we witnessed the unfortunate political vehemence and fury surrounding allowing a patient to die a natural death when she had been in a persistent vegetative state for 15 years after an unwitnessed cardiac arrest.
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He was conspicuous among the young men of his standing for the forwardness with which he took his side against "Tractarianism," and the vehemence of his dislike of it, and for the almost ostentatious and defiant prominence which he gave to the convictions and social habits of his school He expressed his scorn and disgust at the "donnishness," the coldness, the routine, the want of heart, which was all that he could see at Oxford out of the one small circle of his friends.
Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890
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Daniel looked over at Sister Mary, now responding in what seemed like unusual vehemence for so pacific a personality.
THE UNORTHODOX MURDER OF RABBI MOSS
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That's where the vehemence and anger and rage comes from.
Times, Sunday Times
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It can infuse vehemence and passion into spoken words in many ways, and when combined with argumentative passages it not only persuades the auditor but actually enslaves him.
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Schily displayed remarkable vehemence and ruthlessness in his disregard for constitutional ground rules previously considered inviolable.
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Their vehemence left him with a hunted air, his eyes flickering here and there, looking for escape.
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His violent menaces had extorted his readmission into the church, against which Cyprian protests with much vehemence: ne pecuniae commissae sibi fraudator, ne stuprator virginum, ne matrimoniorum multorum depopulator et corruptor, ultra adhuc sponsam Christi incorruptam praesentiae suae dedecore, et impudica atque incesta contagione, violaret.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1
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the vehemence of his denial
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The islanders had been blindsided before; it was never wise to underestimate the potential vehemence of such conditions.
GALILEE
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'Well I'm a creationist and I hope you fail,' he said with some vehemence and doddered off without a word of thanks.
The Beagle Project on the BBC and cut dead by creationists on a train.
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I said "Johnsonian" -- yet even in the great Doctor as we have him recorded there were a certain truculence and vehemence that are a little foreign to B---- 's habit.
Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned
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Indeed this social breakdown afflicts with equal vehemence those Aboriginal peoples who have never been dispossessed of their lands and who retain their classical traditions, cultures and languages.
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Briefly alarmed by her vehemence, Kethry stretched weary mage-senses one more time, fearing to find that the blade was some kind of ensorcelled trap, or bore a curse.
The Oathbound
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However, what is alarming is the vehemence with which a lot of the protestors expressed their views.
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I saw him to-day engage in an animated contest with a phoca, or seal (sealgh, our people more properly call them, retaining the Gothic guttural gh), with as much vehemence as if he had fought against Dumourier
The Antiquary
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He maintained with great vehemence that there was "no authority to throw the rights and liberties of this people into 'hotchpot' with the wild men of the Missouri, nor with the mixed, though more respectable, race of Anglo-Hispano-Gallo-Americans who bask on the sands in the mouth of the Mississippi.
Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860
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As a club with a good international standing, the vehemence of their campaign is unquestionably causing them reputational harm.
Times, Sunday Times
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Character for him must lie in those very qualities which are now chiefly responsible for his defects -- his ardour, his affectibility, his vehemence, his impetuous rashness, his unquestioned courage.
The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster
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She argued with such vehemence against the proposal that they decided to abandon it.
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Although the content of these responses was not surprising to us, the vehemence with which they were expressed was.