Sentences with phrase «nationalist fervor»

Blurring the boundaries between public and private, Mate emphasizes the domestic and political elements in objects of nationalist fervor.

I attribute that distaste to their collective belief that it was exactly that sort of nationalist fervor and grandstanding that led to 60 million war dead during WWII.

Still, Cagney gives himself over to scenes of sentimental romance and nationalist fervor as freely as he commits to the dancing.

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.

Nationalist fervor in places as disparate as the U.S., Great Britain, and Germany made closed borders one of the most commonly recurring themes of the year — alarming to travelers who live by the credo of a borderless world.