Word: fervorous
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...common characteristic wan an unbounded, almost torrential zeal for knowledge. (Of the historian, a classicist and anti-romantic, she writes: "His contempt for zeal was so zealous, so vigorous and learned, pouring out in a great organ fugue of erudition, that it amounted to enthusiasm in the end.") Passionate fervor, Tuchman observes, is one quality indispensable to a good historian; the other is ability--innate or trained--to write...
...Proctor's wife Elizabeth, and Jay Mattlin as Danforth, condemning to death by hanging all those who do not confess they are guilty of witchcraft--flesh out each role to the fullest. The small room echoes, and candlesticks shake as Mattlin, in a phenomenal portrayal of conscientiousness and religious fervor turned fanatical, forces everyone in the courtroom to bend to his will by pure dominance of personality...
Finding Louise in France, Jack tells her he is off to cover the Russian Revolution and exclaims, with the fervor of a talent scout who has just spotted a bright-eyed starlet, "You ought to be in Petrograd!" Reds is all about star quality, its power and limitations-the way a person like Reed can light up a generation of American social history, the way a shooting star can become a falling star when Reed collides with the true "intractables" of the infant Soviet bureaucracy. To carry the moviegoer through the passionate debates on socialism, organized labor and the right...
...government, Sandino lacks a certain credibility (certainly no more, though, than any accounts in the American press of events in the nation). It nonetheless provides a technically skillful and sometimes moving closeup of people adjusting to the idea that they have some control over their own lives. Revolutionary fervor is not lacking; the volunteers, mainly from Nicaragua, fan out across the nation in a truly impressive literacy effort, for example. And there seems a readiness to defend the revolution. When counterrevolutionaries (a particularly simpering, cowardly band of counterrevolutionaries) sneak across the border to murder one literacy brigadista, hundreds...
...that matter Jagielski) repeats several times in the course of the negotiations; when the bargaining is over, they solemnly rise to sing the national anthem. The devotion of Solidarity to its nation is obvious (though in a country with its own pope, much nationalism is subsumed in religious fervor), Clearly, though, the hopes of union members for reform go well beyond the boundaries of Gdansk, and, more important, well beyond the boundaries of the working class. Again and again Walesa that there shall be no agreement unless dissident intellectuals are released; if harassment continues, "We will strike again tomorrow...