Word: fervently
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Finally, tolerance gives right-wing extremists a degree of clout they don't deserve. If you've read most of the editorial positions produced by our campus media in the past year, you might notice that the most fervent claims of disenfranchisement and marginalization haven't come from the Radcliffe Union of Students, or from Harvard's gay, lesbian and bisexual community, or even from the various minority organizations, but from campus conservatives. Our own fixation on tolerance allows our Peninsuloid friends to demand that even their own intolerance be tolerated...
Perhaps we are to assume that Collard believes Jean's quotation at the beginning of the film, "Only violence can put an end to man's ways," because we get to see plenty of violence-domestic, sexual and racial. The film attempts to achieve a fervent pitch of turbulent emotion, but is incapable to sustaining it. The goal here seems to be to achieve the numbing qualities of a "Reservoir Dogs" but ends without delving deeply enough below the emotional skin to make the audience empathize with any of the characters...
...should make it clear that I come to this book as an interested party. Two years ago, I wrote a biography of Kissinger, for the same publisher, which many of his detractors, and some of his putative friends, said pulled too many punches, and which his fervent defenders (himself among them) decried as too harsh. My conclusion was that Kissinger had a remarkable feel for the interplay of national interests but that he failed to appreciate the strength America derives from the openness of its democratic system. His strategic and tactical brilliance made possible the U.S.'s rapprochement with China...
...interests of justice, it will doubtless cause greater pain to parents already stunned by the loss of a child to crib death or some other natural cause. Now, in addition to enduring their grief, they will face more intense questioning from officials. But SIDS parents are among the most fervent supporters of stricter investigations. "The truth," notes Thomas Moran, president of the SIDS alliance, "is that bias and confusion will disappear only when people are really sure why every baby in this country dies...
After deliberating for only about an hour, a Kansas jury convicted fervent antiabortion activist Rachelle Shannon of attempting to murder Dr. George Tiller last summer. Shannon admitted shooting the doctor and testified that she also considered bombing his Wichita abortion clinic...