Sentences with word «fervor»

The extreme religious fervor of ancient Malta shows one of the possible results when societies are placed under severe pressures.

Have your credit cards at the ready and prepare to hit the refresh button with fervor as you try to secure tickets to Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

This will allow the detailed study of religious fervor in Apple and Android users.

Tough, straight - talking abstract painter Sonia Gechtoff is currently being rescued from ill - deserved obscurity, swept up in a wave of fervor for Abstract Expressionism sparked by MoMA's more narrowly selected show (up through Apr. 25).

No one knows who composed these songs, but the people sang them with patriotic fervor in much the same mood that now prompts Americans to sing «The Star - Spangled Banner.»

When he was confronted by their failure in the task he himself had set them, Dubois condemned Israel with the same fervor with which he had admired it.

Therefore, one is able to comprehend the passion of Abraham Foxman, head of the Anti-Defamation League, and the equal fervor of former DePaul University professor Norman Finkelstein, pilloried and even banned from Israel for declaring that Israel perversely draws upon the Holocaust to justify its oppression of Palestinians.

The true fear, anticipation and patriotic fervor of all the characters (of the French and German people both) was so human and believable.

We all have had the experience of persons imbued with revolutionary fervor in their youth who become cynical opportunists in their maturity.

I remember some debates of nearly religious fervor over Motorola vs. Intel.

Why then, with the elder statesmen of American golf displaying such fervor for the two team events in which the U.S. takes on the world, should the powers - that - be bar the legends from ever taking the reins of the Ryder Cup?

There's plenty of fervor around the need for buyer personas; so why do some fail to deliver real value?

Aderin - Pocock talks with great fervor about every job she's had.

I can imagine why it appeals to her: «Cradle Will Rock» boasts a tremendous lineup of talent and it wears its righteous political fervor on its sleeve.

Moreover, the red controller will help you feel the action with more fervor by stimulating impulse triggers.

The irony is that while Christianity inspired a moral fervor for things unseen but possible, its achievements are now so embedded in the culture as to be practically invisible.

But to go back to my initial point, I still suspect that this artsy version of «The Village» might not have been celebrated with such fervor by critics had it not been previously anointed at Cannes.

What is lost in all of the political fervor surrounding local control is that students and parents can't know if their state's investment in education is putting students on equal footing with students in other states.

Growing up in the ebb of the social gospel, but in a denomination in which that ebb lasted a long time, I can testify that on the whole the persons I encountered who had the greatest fervor about reforming society were also those who seemed personally to be the most devout Christians.

No doubt there is some justification for their belief that the lessening of knowledge and conviction about these doctrines has left a void that leads to lack of evangelical fervor in the church as a whole.

This excellent photo - biography portrays Wells as an outspoken journalist who never compromised and who attacked blacks and whites with equal fervor at any sign of accommodation to racial inequity.

We must study our local data, and intervene with as much fervor for a student with a social - emotional issue as we do for a student with an achievement issue.

The title of the show, March Madness, is appropriated from the name of the popular, national college basketball tournament, and speaks to the emotional fervor generated by sporting events.

Despite the political fervor over finally tackling high property taxes, New Yorkers might not feel much of a break even if Cuomo's plan passes.

Speculative fervor through year's end is expected to push penny stocks, although improved returns may need to wait until the 2018 January Effect.

I sense a spiritual fervor in the determination to defend and protect the land.

He may work his employees to the bone, but he also gives them inspirational speeches that breed a sort of religious fervor among them that falls just short of dancing and speaking in tongues.

Endo's 1966 novel «Silence,» a stern, exquisite piece of historical fiction about Portuguese Jesuit priests persecuted for their beliefs in 17th century Japan, walks a thin line separating West from East, religious fervor from spiritual skepticism.

Although some lawmakers expressed new fervor for addressing the risks of derivatives, Congress went ahead with the law that placed a six - month moratorium on any CFTC action regarding the swaps market.

A fit, compact 34 - year - old with closely cropped white - and - gray hair and brown eyes, Gazzaley throws himself with equal fervor into the two obsessions of his life: research and nature photography.

Christian fervor did not decline gradually.

People who fight with such self - righteous fervor don't really care about the human race... they care about how well the human race conforms to their ideals and convictions so that they feel safe and comfortable while they are here.

But the book takes a rather surprising turn when Besançon discusses how icons came to be, in the author's view, fetishized by the Orthodox churches, especially by Russian nationalists» the most flagrant case being Joseph Stalin's order that icons be displayed in Moscow the day after Hitler's invasion of Russia in 1941 to whip up nationalist fervor in his atheist state.

For Terry Gosliner, fervor comes in the form of a far - out - looking soft - bodied marine mollusk known as a nudibranch, also familiarly called a sea slug.

Recall 2010, when Tea Party fervor generated a Republican wave that swept away the comfortable Democratic majority in the House.

Just about every auto company, from Hyundai and its entry - level models to General Motors and its top - of - the - line Cadillac, is vying for customers by touting options like all - wheel drive, anti-lock brakes and side - impact air bags — the most widely available features today — with the same fervor once reserved for ragtops and V - 8 engines.

Beyond its sheer drama, two things stood out about this spontaneous encounter — the surprise that a discussion of research findings could generate such intellectual fervor at a psychotherapy conference and, for the majority of the audience, the shock that there was any debate at all about the role of early experience in human development.

Stakes for seafloor mining claims are being pursued with gold - rush - like fervor, and 300 - ton ocean mining machines and 750 - foot fishing boats are now rolling off the assembly line to do this work.»

Churches must be committed to giving the young people of their congregation things to do — hard things, things that matter, things that inspire them and rouse their God - given fervor.

Ellsworth Kelly spent the second half of his twenties in Paris, enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux - Arts and neatly sidestepping America's growing fervor for Abstract Expressionism in the years following World War II.

Today's contending winds of ideological fervor form a climate even more dully hostile to abstraction than that of good old - fashioned philistine dismissal.

But those who participate in the internal history of the covenant will see the call of Abraham, the Exodus from Egypt, the lives of the prophets, Israel and Judah's release from captivity, the disciples» missionary fervor after the death of Jesus, and the establishment of the Church as all having a promissory significance that a «scientific» historian might not appreciate at all.

Ben Kingsley is a marvel as Mohandas K. — later called Mahatma — Gandhi, doing a remarkable job of conveying the soft - spoken determination of a man who would come to inspire a messianic fervor among his people and convincingly aging himself 55 years with little more than alterations in his posture and way of carrying himself.

Brimming with energy, Hours epitomizes the unrelentingly creative fervor with which Joan Mitchell embraced radiant color and a looser formal vocabulary in her late oeuvre between 1985 and 1992.

In 2002, years before the current fervor over personalized learning, the state of Florida embraced a primitive form of the concept with its test - based promotion policy.

Then somehow, it sadly unraveled to business greed and religious fervor through the «80s and «90s.