Word: fervour
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...Your excellent article speaks of a wave of nationalist fervour sweeping China ahead of the Olympic Games. The Western media seem to view love of country in different ways. In the developing world it is labeled nationalism, while in the West the same sentiment is termed patriotism. Frank Yu, Melbourne...
Turner played his hollow-bodied bass guitar with such fervour it was hard to tell whether the booming, overblown sound was the result of a fuzz pedal or simply a guitar pushed to its limits, until it became all but indistinguishable from the thump of the bass drum. Hayes wiggled his hips in the prescribed provocative fashion, creating roiling layers of guitar haze in truly elegant style. The band wasn’t big on audience interaction, but from the heads bobbing in the audience, they didn’t need to be. Though technically opening for British art-rockers...