Word: fervorous
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...that brings up another crucial difference between Romney's predicament and Kennedy's. You could call it the fervor gap. Like the Southern Baptists, Mormons are a professing religion: they want to spread the word, win converts, save souls. This isn't a problem for a lot of Americans. But it is a problem for many conservative Christians. Many of them believe that if the G.O.P. nominates Romney - much less if the country elects him as President - Mormons will gain a stronger hand in the all-important business of saving souls. To them, the stakes of that struggle...
Fearing that radical Islamist leaders would use their Friday prayers to whip up anti-government fervor, the usually lethargic regime moved up Gibbons' trial, originally scheduled for Saturday, to Thursday. For the most part, the strategy worked: the Muslim day of prayer witnessed only one demonstration, itself relatively small and easily dispersed...
...Orion’s product and the way in which it is marketed point to a larger issue. With the fervor of anthropologists discovering a new culture, journalists have recently been calling attention to the consumption habits of modern consumers, Man 2.0. These are the people who want to read but don’t have time to, the kind who rush from business meeting to dinner table while frantically typing the next day’s schedule into their PDAs. They’re the ones who read CliffsNotes in high school and read abridged books now, the ones...
...such as the early flight of a key participant in the assembly or the need to investigate the matter further. No immediate urgency was either present or asserted at the time that the Faculty parliamentarian authorized the motion and the faculty voted to table the motion. The fervor of their conviction also blinded 74 Ph.D.s to the fact that they were proving my point—that the Israel-Palestine debate has been subject to a unique degree of censorship on campus, and this at a time when the entire world most needs for the matter to be discussed with...
This weekend’s Adams House Pool Theatre production of “Take Her, She’s Yours! or Till Divorce Do Us Part” served up a fall Farcefest full of philandering, French-isms, foppishness, and fervor. This year’s on-stage fracas was as conflicted as its title, comically portraying the blurred line between marital bliss and marital blight. Unfortunately, in some parts of the performance, the line between “great” and “grating” was just as blurred...