Word: fervid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...unmodified needy are falsely so. Movie Critic Vincent Canby has noticed that the 'word film has become imbued with a good deal of snootiness that is not to be found in the word movie. Moderate is highly susceptible to coloring in many different ways, always by the fervid partisans of some cause: Adlai Stevenson, once accused of being too moderate on civil rights, wondered whether anyone wished him to be, instead, immoderate...
...haters delight in announcing that a Siamese will not faithfully drool in your lap for a kind word like a Labrador retriever. Even the most fervid owners of felines can be surprised-almost to cardiac arrest-by their pets' peculiarities. Your cat lurks in the dark attic just when you thought you were alone. As a form of endearment, he may jump on your shoulder from the top of the refrigerator. He may refuse all food until you cook the same kind of bacon-and-cheese sandwich he enjoyed a week ago. He will, in the meantime, deposit...
...must carry both stories and the audience with him; he must lay the tracks that lead Charles and Mike to their fateful folly. Says Karel Reisz: "Jeremy has the authority of a leading man without the narcissism that so often goes with it." Indeed, there is something of the fervid adolescent in his playing of these serious young men. It takes doomed love to test, toughen and mature Charles-and a compelling actor-personality to play him. Irons is equally persuasive as performer and fond lover. As Reisz notes, "Jeremy does have his Heathcliff side...
Reagan's appointments should not be viewed as conciliatory or moderate. They represent the worst of America, just as bad as the fervid evangelicals of the Moral Majority. The eight men Reagan has named to be his close advisers are archetypes of the U.S. corporate elite, interested in serving the desires of almost none of this country's or the world's people, interested instead in further increasing corporate control of everyday life. Reagan would have been hard-pressed to do worse...
...member of the acting profession," Bacall continued, "and if Ronald Reagan is no better at being President than he was at acting ... Well, as a producer I know says, 'No, no! Jimmy Stewart for President. Ronald Reagan for Vice President!' " Kennedy then stepped out and admonished his fervid supporter: "Betty, I just wish you wouldn't be so mealymouthed about coming out and saying what you think...