Word: fervently
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...Lady of Fatima. The bosses who financed these pictures may not have liked them or shared the beliefs expressed in them, but they had their reasons for greenlighting them. One is that they often made money. Another is that the mood of the country was more pious. Today, a fervent Christian conviction-so often aligned with belligerent conservatism-is, to many in the media, a threat or a joke. They don't understand religious devotion, at least in the less attractive sense of the term. They are much more comfortable producing anti-religious entertainment (all the comedies that make mock...
...reflex—who wouldn’t want to strangle the bride who told the reporter: “We sat together at dinner and talked about Pop-Tarts—we both love Pop-Tarts”? Clearly, a key part of Wedding Mockery is the fervent hope that these relationships will crash and burn within weeks...
...Dean's fervent supporters often came to the campaign through the Web operation Trippi created, and they posted hundreds of laudatory farewells within an hour of learning of his departure. But they want to win too. "I wasn't voting for Trippi," Melissa Sternberg, an Austin artist, said. "He had great ideas and got the campaign off to a great start." At the same time they praised Trippi, many bloggers said they hoped the reformed campaign would improve its ads, which were designed by Trippi's firm and roundly disliked by the troops for being too negative about other candidates...
Szabo’s colleagues attribute a large part of this success to his work in the classroom, where his fervent dedication helped his students to see the world in new and different ways...
...Fervent debates on the philosophical principle of free speech have sprung up on the open e-mail lists of Houses such as Mather and Winthrop, inspired by the issue of the flags as well as HRL’s posters on campus...