Although Johnson himself was a fervent Tory, it is interesting to note that he was on friendly and intimate terms with several well-known Whigs. |
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They lived together continently for a year, and Birgitta was especially fervent in her prayers and ascetic devotions. |
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The window blindingly reflected the fervent light from the mid-morning sun. |
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I was rooting him on, along with the others in his small but fervent peanut gallery. |
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Alicia's fervent hope was that her love and support would make his painful load easier to bear. |
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The current coach is clinging on by his fingertips, and last weekend's Murrayfield defeat was expected, even by most fervent Welsh supporters. |
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Had the Virgin Mary interceded on my behalf as a result of all that fervent prayer? |
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The FBI noted Einstein's fervent opposition to the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |
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More important, Higgins was fully credible as a heroic actor, while Hurley was perfect as the callow, fervent young Fugard. |
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Moments of fervent inspiration are also part of this very short but telling musical prayer. |
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In the fervent chant of prayers, this energy rises to join with the prayers of thousands of other voices invoking the Goddess Liberty. |
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One of the most fervent bardolaters of the period was the artist and antiquarian Samuel Ireland. |
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The portrayals of factory life would make even the most fervent capitalists turn to Marx and Engels. |
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Their fervent hope is that anger at chaos caused by the millennium bug could lead to revulsion powerful enough to prevent the digital ascendancy. |
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But their damage is what we notice and what he shews us, the seduction and bribery of fervent desire meshed with sheepish sorrow. |
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He was a fervent French nationalist and a strong leader, a man who took on the United States and Britain. |
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You suspect it's not much of a stretch playing the reckless cynic who one day grows up into a fervent idealist, yet he never trips up. |
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But carrying in our hearts fervent coals of His hope and faith we can journey in the courage of His peace. |
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Otherwise, how are we to explain Neruda's fervent and impassioned commitment to the working class? |
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Thomas Paine, Ethan Allen and others were also fervent supporters of this doctrine. |
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A fervent Hull City supporter and former Uppingham School pupil, Mr Carver was also interested in gardens and historic houses. |
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Labour also believes that fervent Tory supporters were among the team counting the votes, and believes it to be unjust. |
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He was an outspoken abolitionist and a fervent supporter of Reconstruction. |
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The sheer reverence and admiration for these legends could be readily manipulated into fervent nationalist passion. |
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In that he was successful beyond the wildest dreams of even the most fervent supporter. |
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The previous government of Jose Maria Aznar was one of the most fervent supporters of military action. |
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Chen's speech may have disappointed pro-independence voters in Taiwan who are his fervent supporters. |
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While the Guardian campaign might have fired up voters, the Republicans ran a fervent campaign to mobilise supporters in rural Ohio. |
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My father's passion was a very fervent one, and I think that definitely rubbed off on all of us. |
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You need to be fervent to shift the forces of apathy and disempowerment in the global entertainment culture. |
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He was a fervent supporter of air power and had, unlike some of his colleagues, little faith in battleships. |
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His most fervent supporters occasionally sound like disciples rather than supporters. |
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Even with this fervent interest in infosec, however, a slew of similar IT security problems from the year before ring true for this one as well. |
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Despite the fervent hopes of many hard-working and well-meaning ostriches, the problem refuses to evaporate. |
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How hast thou stood with pleading eyes, Outstretching hands, and fervent cries, Unwearied wrestler with the skies! |
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And the language itself, even the most fervent xenophile does not find Icelandic easy. |
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The lyrics include formulaic gospel cries and they are often delivered in the fervent style of gospel music. |
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A new generation of fervent Sikh preachers is being educated in this seminary near Amritsar. |
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His fervent soap-box oratory, rhetorical literary style, and experience as secretary of the Timber Workers Union brought a growing reputation. |
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Leaders also expressed fervent opposition to Bush's global gag rule, which denies funding to any clinic daring to even discuss abortion. |
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Regardless of whether the songs featured distorted guitars or oboes and clarinets, Downes' lyrical romanticism remained constant and fervent. |
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The most fervent Jansenists opted for a life of severe self-denial and constant prayer, in retreat from the world. |
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True, not everyone is as fervent as the young crusaders of the high-tech sector. |
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Among the Democrats' richest and most fervent supporters, this may be the number one issue. |
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And so the fervent Francophiles of not-yet-Germany were transformed into even more fervent Francophobes. |
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But by 1914 he was working for a compromise, unlike Lord Milner and his fervent camp followers who really seemed ready to plunge Britain into a civil war. |
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They rationalize away the facts, defend their position, and actually become more fervent. |
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And because his fan base is so fervent he can then negotiate down the road for an increase subscriber fee. |
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In 1984 he was granted his fervent wish to acquire a Picasso. |
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His fervent approach to football manifests itself in rapid-fire delivery on all manner of convictions and opinions concerning his chosen profession. |
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In fact, the way he distinguishes himself from his opponents is his fervent opposition to the Keystone pipeline. |
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For the religiously committed, the rise of secularism powerfully facilitated the cause of cooperation among fervent believers. |
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One of the beacons of the Romantic reform movement, Hugo was among the most fervent partisans of English drama during the Restoration period in France. |
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He had brought back from Rome thick notebooks and portfolios which he turned into paintings during those years of fervent activity and retrospection. |
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He was a fervent anti-communist who could comprehend and believe that people everywhere would choose to throw off the communist system if they ever had the chance. |
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The political world and her most fervent fans may be exercised about a presidential bid. |
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Ramos was a fervent Mets fan and he would often talk to the students about sports. |
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It should be said that the most fervent opponents of the Affordable Care Act are Republican base voters. |
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In spite of her fervent devotion to the virtues of participatory democracy, localism and the educational imperative, the works only partially exhibited these principles. |
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Part of the fascination of holidaying in Spain is its fervent localness. |
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Three individuals whose fervent belief in their inventions, hypotheses, and God led them to take chances others might not. |
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Equal parts biography, sociology text, and mash note, it is the most complete account yet of his influence on pop music and a fervent memoir of fandom. |
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And they no longer muse about which nations might be next on the target list, disappointing their most fervent neoconservative supporters as often as they please them. |
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I remember having a discussion about democracy with a fervent Brownite. |
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A spellbinding orator and a man of great charisma, he was able to whip up crowds with his fervent speeches about the colonial exploitation of his country. |
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It is his fervent hope that early next year, in the company of a million or so other Muslims, he will be able to go on the haj and circle the black stone at Mecca. |
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Exactly 100 years ago this week, Wales was in the midst of a fervent religious revival led by a young Methodist, stoking fanatical excitement and emotional excesses. |
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In fact, children of heavy smokers are often fervent anti-smokers. |
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And many might like to hear tales of the political classes decamping to the seaside for a week of fervent backstabbing, orgiastic networking and roaring drunkenness. |
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A fervent protester since her early college days, this is a woman who believes in action and follow-through rather than hollow promises made on election campaigns. |
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A fervent believer as a boy, he broke with the church as an adolescent, pettishly refusing his mother's dying request that he make his confession and take Communion. |
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But, dressed in yellow, she led her musicians with a fervent intensity. |
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While the rhetoric may speak of a learning year for the team and drivers alike, there is a fervent passion and desire for success within the squad. |
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Regrettably, the US government has the fervent support of our government, apparently in the belief that we have a duty to stand by the US and will gain from doing so. |
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The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. |
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If this is the state of affairs after the country's fervent embrace of capitalism in 1989, one can only imagine the grimness that prevailed under Soviet rule. |
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During the 18th century, John Wesley became a a fervent exhorter of work. |
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Much of the religiosity of Gladstone's liberal vision derived from Burke, but without his anger, hyperbole, fervent public emotionality and contempt and fear of Nonconformists. |
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A fervent autodidact, Hall never stopped learning, reading widely late at night. |
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The buildings and businesses facilitated by the development corporations created by this fervent free marketeer continue to change the region. |
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What is important is that Darius and his successors were fervent Mazdeans, that is, worshipers of Ahura Mazda. |
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The most fervent Loyalists left for Canada or Britain or other parts of the Empire. |
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Even France, once a fervent participant of the Crusades, became an ally of the Ottomans. |
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Hobbes' vision of the natural depravity of man inspired fervent disagreement among those who opposed absolute government. |
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Tito and Nehru tried to keep fervent antiwesternism from superseding the fundamental anti-bloc position of the movement. |
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The Inquisition was active in several nations of Europe, particularly where it had fervent support from the civil authority. |
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Croze, 67, is a muralist, and fervent admirer of Antonio Gaudi, who has spent more than half her life in Africa. |
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An avid social gospeler, Booth's entire ministry was characterized by a fervent commitment to causes of sociopolitical and economic reform. |
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At Leipzig, Delius became a fervent disciple of Wagner, whose technique of continuous music he sought to master. |
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The ashes of Shelley, one of Keats's most fervent champions, are buried in the cemetery and Joseph Severn is buried next to Keats. |
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John Jay, the President of the Congress who had been a fervent supporter of Deane, immediately spoke out against Paine's comments. |
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The genius of the confession is its room for high churchmen and the most fervent evangelical. |
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Among the intelligentsia he was best known for his fervent but pointless monologues, or his mansuetudinous dialogues with himself. |
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But with recent fervent calls from readers for the return of the McD's milkshake, 7DAYS conducted a recent poll of more than 1,500 readers. |
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The Oxford scholar shares a fervent bibliophilism with other characters in Chaucer's fiction. |
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They are fervent, like ham radio operators or model rocketeers, quilters or comic book collectors. |
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By now inexpli-cably dressed in a Hawaiian shirt, he joined in with fervent enthusiasm on his xylophone, eyebrows and sticks flying. |
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The chief monument of them is the long unreprinted Friendship's Garland, which has always had some fervent devotees, and is very characteristic. |
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A fervent Cantabrigian, Coke had a habit of naming Cambridge first, including in Parliament. |
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At the same time, it has been the locus of fervent debate, especially over its third and fourth points. |
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In 1837, Webster warned his daughter Eliza about her fervent support of the abolitionist cause. |
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As I returned my fervent hopes were dashed by so many fears. |
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Rebecca West was a fervent anti-Communist, but she was no redbaiter. |
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Pol Pot, in his grave in Anlong Veng, receives the respectful visits of many Khmer people who offer him a fervent tribute, with candles, joss sticks, etc. |
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As she read the portrait of the small staring face in the sailor hat, fervent in its withdrawn impavidness, gazed out upon her from the slowly gliding limousine. |
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For all its somewhat ahistorical idealism, the melting-pot metaphor still represents the standard around which fervent proponents of assimilation have rallied over the years. |
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It is hard to read this book without drowning in it, because Farrier is so fervent in devising a political phenomenology to expose the aporia of legal sovereignty. |
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This undeath of some fairly ugly rhetoric suggests that, despite the fervent assertions of some political commentators, the United States is nowhere near post-racial. |
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You prove your ability to procreate by tastefully introducing your Mother to your My Little Pony collection and your fervent love of clopping and your amazing fedora hat rack! |
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Gwynne, the editor of the Morning Post, and previously a fervent opponent. |
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His best friend and flatmate was Rajani Palme Dutt, a British citizen born to an Indian father and Swedish mother, who was a fervent socialist and Marxist. |
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Doyle was also a fervent advocate of justice and personally investigated two closed cases, which led to two men being exonerated of the crimes of which they were accused. |
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Christie took up the hobby of surfing during a vacation in South Africa with her husband, Archie in 1922, and was a fervent bodyboarder at that time. |
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Never again would those fresh lips touch his lips with their fervent kiss! |
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The author covers this legislation in great detail, revealing the fervent hostility to illegal immigrants and unnaturalized Americans during this era. |
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Historian Clyde Binfield says their fervent Methodist faith strengthened their commitment to economic independence, spiritual certainty and civic responsibility. |
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