Sentences with phrase «fervor of»

In the fervor of excitement over the possibility of big profits dozens of custom PC manufacturers rushed to get their machines ready for the incoming onslaught of the Steam faithful.

Predictably, the fervor of the advocates for the changes alarmed some current and former judges, including Raoul G. Cantero, who had been appointed to the Supreme Court by Gov. Jeb Bush, a Republican.

With the fervor of a convert, I now look for ways of introducing lessons on intellectual property into my teaching in the school of education and in the program in science, technology, and society (STS).

From the platonic «Back to the Golden Age Utopia,» arresting change to fervor of religious seer and politician who foretell the operation of natural laws in history or dominance of a master race.

With the fervor of Internet pioneers, young artisans and agricultural entrepreneurs are expanding aggressively, reaching out to investors and working together to create a collective strength never before seen in this seedbed of Yankee individualism.

I must say that I am a little amused by the fervor of Chris Landsea with respect to the paper.

Just compare the fervor of belief and the stridency against opposition, on the one hand, to the quality of the claims, on the other.

You guys seem to operate with your own set of rules that are distinct from other branches of science (no doubt due to the messianic fervor of being deep in the political arena).

But alas, he has shown conviction, perseverance, even fervor of the sort one sees in religious revivalists.

«Some of his thicket - like designs throb with the fervor of an old symbolic representation of the Burning Bush, while others have the formal, explicit robustness of Léger,» Stuart Preston wrote in a New York Times review of a 1962 show.

A student of Anna Halprin, Brown participated in the choreographic composition workshops taught by Robert Dunn — from which Judson Dance Theater was born — greatly contributing to the fervor of inter-disciplinary creativity that defined 1960s New York.

Amidst the fervor of anti-war demonstrations, civil rights rallies and Queer revolution, the Feminist art movement created a stimulating dialogue around the female body, gaze and identity.

Nonetheless, it possesses all the vivid fervor of Delacroix's famous figurative painting of «Liberty Leading the People,» the flag - waving ode to populist emancipation in 19th century France.

They are scorched by the fire of conflict and marked by the fervor of internal controversy.

Stone himself described that oomph of pleasure, the buzz of finding and buying something new, with the fervor of an addict describing a fix.

Vallotton is justly celebrated for his friezelike portrait (not in the show) of the legendary anarchist and writer FÉLIX FÉNÉON EDITING LA REVUE BLANCHE (1896), the journal associated with the Nabi artists Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis and ÿdouard Vuillard, an intense image of a man hunched over his manuscripts that today seems to presage the fervor of the solitary blogger.

Simek writes: «Bess's work is powerful in its preciousness - aching with an intensity and fervor of ideas that, even for its size, challenges the monolithic works by his AB EX contemporaries at the mid-century, when most of his works on view here were made.

Leonhardt's gradient chromatic sweeps have the fervor of a deep autumnal shade or the bleakness of a Dystopian future.

However, Sacks, who spent studied fine art at Princeton and Yale, orchestrates them into a poetic ambiance that recalls early cutouts of the 20th century European collage and the chaotic fervor of Abstract Expressionism of the «40s.

No one can help but be touched by the beauty and fervor of La Tour's night.

The vastness of the American continent, with its unending landscapes and roads, and its vast cities embodying an energetic modernist optimism all combined to propel Beckmann — who had never before experienced geographic space on such an imposing scale — into an extraordinary fervor of productivity.

Grimes» large - scale paintings of the wooded landscape evoke the majesty of the American landscape tradition with all the fervor of the Abstract Expressionist movement.

Depicting a passionate crowd of African Americans — their attitude suggesting the fervor of a civil - rights era audience — Intentionally Left Blanc reverts in its exposed, «positive» format to an image in which select faces are whitened out and erased, the exact inverse of the same view in its «negative» condition.

He became the art world's equivalent of the well - dressed, well - educated, physically fit cousin who celebrates the idea of fun with the fervor of a Bible - thumping revivalist.

Pratt Institute offers a unique and dynamic work environment and culture for its employees, one infused with the creative energy and intellectual fervor of working artists and professionals, in an extraordinary campus setting in the Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn, as well as in the Manhattan campus on West 14th Street.

Sure, you don't need alcohol to partake in the competitive fervor of Mario Kart, but it'll likely help the insults come out a lot quicker.

While America becomes swept up in the fervor of the Space Race, Harrison turns his attention home, passing up the chance to become an astronaut to welcome his daughter, Florence, into the world.

DECONSTRUCTING «ALICE» David Day combines the expertise of an academic with the fervor of a true Alice enthusiast in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Decoded.

Exciting, surprising, tense and racing, this roller - coaster twists like a boa on meth and will have even the most demanding reader ululating the name Konkoly in a frothing fervor of delight!»

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

Though it all takes place in (and under) a very small town and the surrounding countryside, it feels expansive — there are tree homes, sewers, helicopters, broad fields, and a train going by in the distance — and the characters move through it with the ease and exploratory fervor of wild animals.

When I started the grand experiment of writing under Penname, I expected money (maybe) and challenge (definitely), but I didn't expect the fervor of the fans.

Arturo Pérez - Reverte is at his finest here, offering readers a bittersweet, richly rendered portrait of a powerful, forbidden love story that burns brightly over forty years, from the fervor of youth to the dawn of old age.

Few homologation specials capture the fervor of Group B better than the eternal Audi Sport Quattro S1.

Within seconds, songs spilled out and I joined in with the fervor of a potential American Idol, singing along with tunes that just might seem a little strange to you.

As teams of high school and middle school students gathered to test a mechanical device they had spent months designing and improving, spectators cheered with the fervor of athletic fans.

But I am a child of modern education, and correct spelling was (and is) held in high regard — witness the fervor of the national spelling bee, that beauty pageant for young brainiacs, which has reached such a fever pitch that it veers close to child abuse.

First, Skandera did eventually take steps to build support for reform at the ground level, having recognized — to a degree — that criticisms of the speed and fervor of her reform platform had some merit.

These scenes capture the chaotic fervor of battle but still keep it understandable.

It makes him suspect in the anti-communist fervor of the late 1950s, but that commitment makes him the perfect emissary for back - channel negotiations for a prisoner swap for Gary Powers, the captured pilot of a U-2 spy plane shot down over Soviet airspace.

But the Guardian - affirmed New Brit Pack member stays refined through treacherous depravity, too; incest and murder aside, she brought a virginal charm to the orgiastic fervor of The Borgias (2011 — 2013).

As the dad, Michael Stuhlbarg sums up how the romantic fervor of youth is something to be treasured — and envied by their elders — in a long, spellbinding speech that encapsulates both the movie's deep heartbreak and its embrace of joy.

The new «Star Wars» movie has positive reviews from a majority of professional critics and is hardly a «difficult» proposition, but an online mob of fans hates it with the fervor of true believers confronting an apostate.

The critical praise for «12 Years a Slave» has hit with all the fervor of a revival preacher, the film's significance so heavily underscored as to be almost intimidating.

He wrote at once with the im - pressionistic fervor of a viewer still stuck inside the movie (each word is like a synapse firing), and the wit and rigor of a detached critic.

Roach says, in discussing the anti-Communist fervor of 1947:

The film accurately reflects the WW11 patriotic fervor of Audie Murphy.

While it didn't recreate the impact or fervor of District 9, Elysium is no sophomore slump.

The fervor of Ash's devotees is extraordinary, inducing one person to pay a ridiculous amount of money for a toothpick at an Ash themed auction.

Afterman, who promoted a couple of James Brown gigs back in the day — including one at San Quentin — spoke with the fervor of a seasoned impresario.