Word: fervorous
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...Goethe's Egmont" opened the second half of the program. It was a work of dark splendor. The jaggedly imperious strings stood in stark contrast to the plaintive radiance of the woodwinds. Saturday's performance had a nobly crafted strength; the orchestra responded to Wilkins's tight command with fervor and conviction...
...free trade as we know it is in jeopardy." If the Geneva talks fail, it is easy to foresee a truly vicious circle: protectionist moves further restrict the growth of global trade, keeping expansion of the world economy slow and unemployment in industrial nations high, provoking still more protectionist fervor...
...supermarkets; the Governor meets with the press. Wiseman is especially fascinated by the community's many patriotic ceremonies. Whether the Zonians are at church or on the tennis court or out for a banquet, they are forever pledging and singing their allegiance to the flag with the fervor of high school students at a pep rally...
...Novelist Jean Stafford, Critic Elizabeth Hardwick and English Novelist Lady Caroline Blackwood. The Byronic drama of his marriages made its way into Lowell's poetry, where he quoted his wives' letters and reproaches, chronicled his infidelities and begged forgiveness. But he portrayed his worldly sorrows with a fervor transcending mere confession. There are, for example, these lacerating lines from "Man and Wife...
...kind of street along which you promenade, admiring discreetly price-tag-less clothes, jewelry and paintings. On one side is the oldest non-profit craft cooperative in the USA, on the other the oldest guild of artists. All these places proclaim their uniqueness with the fervor of the faithful in possession of a fragment of the True Cross. And if this were Paris the artists would litter the sidewalks chronicling the scene...