Word: fervent
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...well acted by the leads, fails inexcusably with its script. The magic of García Márquez, evident in these first scenes, makes only rare appearances throughout the rest of the film.“Love in the Time of Cholera” begins in 1880 with fervent first-sight love. The young Florentino Ariza, played by Javier Bardem (“The Sea Inside”), comes across the beautiful Fermina Daza, played by popular Italian actress Giovanna Mezzogiorno. Although no words are exchanged, they fall desperately in love. Though physical consummation is prevented by their differing...
...night worrying about having too many Nobel Prize winners at our next kegger.) Other advice is simply useless, such as “Don’t Take Up Golf.” Watson does occasionally hit the mark, but his pronouncements mostly induce eye-rolling and a fervent desire to know why a man who has done so much in his life could not come up with more lessons that are actually useful...
...said that Musharraf was falling under the sway of the more radical parts of his Pakistan Muslim League (Q) (PML-Q) party. Still, she said she was not shutting the door on negotiations with Musharraf. Bhutto, who leads the huge People's Party, has not asked her millions of fervent followers to come out into the streets. During the interview, she evinced some sympathy for Musharraf over his feud with the Supreme Court. The court was about to decide whether he could simultaneously lead the military and be President when martial law was declared and the chief justice put under...
...base doesn't watch TV. They need rallies, cavalcades. Unless you do it this way, you cannot survive as a populist party. Unfortunately, that is no longer possible." Bhutto had planned to launch her election campaign with a procession to her hometown of Larkana, the source of her most fervent support. Now she has been forced to rethink her strategy. "We have to modify our campaign to some extent because of the suicide bombings," Bhutto told reporters at her Karachi residence shortly after visiting Lyari. "But we are not going to stop our campaign to reach the public. We will...
While George W. Bush’s fervent and explicit Christianity may well be his defining personal feature, critic and professor John Gray reminds us that Bush is not the defining manifestation of political Christianity. According to Gray’s newest book, “Black Mass,” the results of mixing religion and civic life can range from utopian aspirations to apocalyptic predictions of doom. Gray’s entertaining but flawed argument posits that the common theme of early Christian believers, Enlightenment thinkers, and modern politicians is a faulty belief in society?...