Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aura, enchantment and excitement of the medieval festivities descends upon the city and is intensified by fervent local rivalry...
...explain. My parents were hardly religious--nominal Methodists. It doesn't get much less fervent than that. We prayed twice a year, around the Thanksgiving and Christmas turkeys. They'd make me pray, because I was little and remembered stuff from Sunday School, then we'd chow `til the meal was done. And that was it for eleven months. My parents loved God, but the Christmas tree was about as public as they...
Brown's unshakable counterculture image undercuts a fervent message that needs to be heard: a call not just for a jobs-and-income revival but for an American political reformation. Even Brown's adversaries grudgingly acknowledge that in an era of term limits, the Keating Five and a general climate of voter restiveness, his message strikes a chord. It very obviously unnerved his rival Democratic candidates at their first televised debate in December, though Brown undercut its effect with his bristling appeal to viewers to call in contributions to his 800 number like a shop-by-phone huckster...
...Winston Churchill might have observed: some leader, some transition. Gorbachev presided over the dissolution of a truly evil empire, brought freedom to hundreds of millions of oppressed people and lifted the threat of a cataclysmic nuclear war. The wonder was not that the President of the Soviet Union, a fervent socialist to the end, managed his revolution well but that he launched...
...republics were fervent fighters, wanting to destroy the center and take over its functions. But as soon as they succeeded, the reform process abruptly stopped...