Word: perfervidly
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Pineau's vision of Eurafrica did nothing to dampen the perfervid anticolonialism of the Arab-Asian countries. "The reputation of France at the present time," growled Syria's Delegate Farid Zeineddine, "is at its lowest ebb." Then, accusing the French of everything from cowardice to genocide, 18 Arab-Asian nations proposed just what France most dreaded: a resolution demanding that the people of Algeria be granted "their fundamental right of self-determination...
...faith in his God - than she has yet power to illuminate. For much of the book, Abraham strides forward with Old Testament credibility. But toward the novel's end, tragedy bows to contrivance which teeters on the brink of absurdity; the writing turns from archaic simplicity to perfervid pleading. Unfortunately for her purpose, the characters who seem most alive are the women : the silly, gabbling, pitiable gossip, Mrs. Plopler, and the bereft Sarah, who had wept so much that "the ocean had drained away, and she cried now with only the pebbles on the beach...
...uncharacteristically humble mood, is ready to see the light of salvation. He sees it in a piece of transcendent silliness and highly dubious analogizing by a nun who tells Tom that his fellow poet's drunkenness, homosexuality and suicide were simply signs of his perfervid search for God, roughly comparable to the quest and anguish of St. Catherine of Siena. At novel's end, Tom goes off to enlist in the growing army of flophouse saints...
After her tempestuous, two-continent romance with Bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguin seasons ago. perfervid Cinemactress Ava Gardner was again building castles in Spain with a toreador. In the bull ring of the ancient town of Alcala de Henares, slight, curly-haired Cesar Giron, 21, was so inspired by Ava's presence in the stands that he dispatched his bull in high style, won both ears and the tail, presented his bloody trophies to Ava, who clutched an ear to her lips for a long kiss as the crowd cheered. But in another fight last week at Aranjuez, near Madrid...
Greene's perfervid admirers will be completely satisfied with his handling of this double difficulty; but even his critics can admire his nerve and applaud his effort: for how else can you hope to hear the truth about human beings unless you overhear them talking to themselves...