(a.) Hot; glowing; boiling; burning; as, a fervent summer.
(a.) Warm in feeling; ardent in temperament; earnest; full of fervor; zealous; glowing.
Example Sentences:
(1) It may be just as well that Hugh Grant fervently believes a film succeeds on its qualities, not on publicity about its stars, because he did his tabloid reputation as a heartless, feather-brained Lothario immense harm in the process of delivering damning testimony on phone-hacking to the Leveson inquiry on Monday.
(2) But while the imprisoned activists and their supporters are fervently hoping that the Queen of Pop will use her Russian platform (Olimpiyskiy stadium, which is a pretty big one) to make a strong statement in their support, so far all she's been able to muster in public is a remark that she's "sorry that they've been arrested".
(3) And at the coalface of Israeli coalition management, where every deal is done over the still-twitching body of an ally fervently opposed to it, the economics of disappointment eventually take a toll.
(4) I’m not sure there is much to celebrate in voting a 72-year-old who has kept coming back – one, two, three, four times – to taste power.” Even among fervent Buhari supporters, the most important gain may be the simple recognition that it is now possible to vote new candidates in – or out.
(5) Whether motivated by fear of failure or the desire to win, the victor's personality type requires the constant assertion of the self – a self in which one can only place the most fervent and unshakeable belief.
(6) We can see this, for example, in the way the fervently pro-market British government has leaned on mobile phone companies to pool their competing private networks to provide better coverage, or, in the US, in President Obama’s successful push to have broadband access officially designated as a utility.
(7) As a fervent anti-war and pro-Palestinian activist, Corbyn has attracted the most stringent criticism for his foreign policy, with the Conservative chancellor, George Osborne, going so far as to call him a “national security threat” .
(8) This article by a lawyer -- who fervently believes that Assange should be extradited to Sweden -- makes the case very compellingly that the Swedish government most certainly can provide such a guarantee if it chose to [my emphasis]: Extradition procedures are typically of a mixed nature, where courts and governments share the final decision – it is not unknown for governments to reject an extradition request in spite of court verdict allowing it .
(9) Even the most fervent haters of the BBC can only mutter and mumble when Attenborough productions are mentioned.
(10) It is the most homespun of arrangements for a team with such lofty ambitions, but somehow it will be a fitting send-off in a city that has embraced the idea from the start, with Major Buddy Dyer being one of their most fervent supporters, and some 20,000 showing up for the championship game against Charlotte last September .
(11) Isis had occupied Falluja for six months before then and, despite being besieged since late last year, has concentrated many of its most fervent fighters there.
(12) Lynn's friends say it would have been beyond her comprehension, having expressed her wishes so clearly and her admiration and love for her parents so fervently, to have foreseen that the mother who tended to her every need for the 17 years of her illness, would be prosecuted for following her wishes and helping her to die.
(13) These “nones”, as they are known in the jargon, are not all fervently atheist: only 40% are convinced that there is no God or “higher power”, and 5% of them are absolutely certain that He does exist.
(14) Mr Prescott told delegates: 'There is no doubt that this man, our leader, put his head on the block by saying basically, 'I fervently believe in a relationship - and a strong one - between the trades unions and the Labour Party'.
(15) Tsipras's seeming conversion to being a fervent admirer of the church has not passed without comment.
(16) In person, they are civil, engaging, fervent and genuine.
(17) Nunes made waves earlier this year by calling Congressman Justin Amash, one of bulk surveillance’s most fervent GOP critics, “ al-Qaida’s best friend in Congress ”.
(18) Some said it was a symbol of the part-Kenyan president’s ancestral dislike of the British empire – of which Churchill had been such a fervent defender,” said Johnson in an article designed to hit back at Obama after the US president waded into the EU referendum debate on Friday.
(19) We extend our deepest condolences to the families and loved ones of the victims as well as our fervent wishes for healing for all of those affected by this senseless violence.
(20) Calderón himself fervently opposes legalisation, although he recently called for a "fundamental debate" on the issue.
Fervor
Definition:
(n.) Heat; excessive warmth.
(n.) Intensity of feeling or expression; glowing ardor; passion; holy zeal; earnestness.
Example Sentences:
(1) For example, he didn’t think it was Trump’s stance on immigration that was drawing voters with a lot of fervor, it was “Trump’s racist language”.
(2) Christie first trumpeted his arrival on the national scene by cancelling, at the height of Tea Party anti-government fervor, the largest public works project anywhere in the United States: a vital new tunnel under the Hudson River 20 years in the making.
(3) Harward is said to share Mattis’ view of Iran as a primary security threat, though with less ideological fervor: he spent much of his youth in pre-revolutionary Iran, where his father, also a navy officer, was stationed.
(4) A succession of desperate attempts to clear their lines had Mourinho jumping up and down on the touchline with increasing fervor.
(5) Nursing has discussed widely and with fervor the level of education required to provide quality nursing care for clients.
(6) Their faith unshaken, the Republican nominee’s superfans cheered him with religious fervor and, when he lambasted the media, turned to boo with no less passion.
(7) Among the more important, though with situational variations, are the high degree of moralistic and patriotic fervor associated with prohibition efforts, the projection of guilts and fears of the proponents onto alcohol use, and aspects of culture conflict and opposing group interests.
(8) But what’s original about his work is the fervor and fearlessness with which it borrows and recombines other genres and styles – pop, rock, jazz, operetta.
(9) Nostalgia for a nationalist Catholicism by some and the fervor of others to demonstrate that a break with the past had taken place have been important factors in bioethics legislation.
(10) While the rescheduled first day in Tampa was a snoozefest, Tuesday in Charlotte had the sight of Cory Booker banging the podium with fervor, Tammy Duckworth walking on stage with two artificial limbs, mute testimony to her service in Iraq, and former Ohio governor Ted Strickland launching into a barnburner, accusing Mitt Romney of "lying and hiding" his policies and tax returns.
(11) Just last week, I ventured to a local drinking establishment, with great hopes for my fellow Americans said to be embracing football with fervor .
(12) [Cubans] are not committed to this revolutionary internationalist fervor of the 60s and 70s.
(13) The conservative fervor over Benghazi and its various conspiracies carried a rarely discussed thread: the mistaken belief that special-ops can do anything, at any time, to save or kill anyone.
(14) The fervor with which the Americans have adopted soccer in the last 20 years , and this World Cup specifically, offers a compelling juxtaposition to Canada – another large developed, rich, industrial nation in the Concacaf zone.
(15) Having dealt somewhat extensively with Harris and many of his supporters this week, I can say that I haven't encountered such religious-type fervor and jingoistic and tribalistic self-love ( My Side is superior to Theirs!! )
(16) Unfortunately, these conclusions have been sensationalized and exploited with litigious fervor to the point that the practice of pertussis immunization is being questioned in the United States.
(17) June 4, 2017 ⭐fervor w measure⭐ (@setalyas) "London should not be cowed" mate the Chicken Cottage by Borough station is already open stop worrying June 4, 2017 The nation is not for reeling One headline in particular provoked British ire, from the New York Times, which stated that “Terrorist attacks in the heart of London leave 6 dead in a nation still reeling” Robert Harris (@Robert___Harris) This sort of hyped-up headline does the terrorists' job for them.
(18) Barbara Annis, co-author of Work with Me: the 8 Blind Spots Between Men and Women in Business and the founding partner of Gender Intelligence Group , a New York firm specializing in gender diversity training, said: “What they [Pao’s critics] are trying to do to Pao is character assassination, and yes, her being a woman and a woman who [previously] filed a discrimination suit against her employer contributes to the insane fervor of which people responded to her decisions as CEO.” Hashtags including #RedditRevolt and #ChairmanPao trended on Twitter this week.
(19) The fervor with which abortion opponents have pursued restrictions on mifepristone appears to contrast with the drug’s safety record.
(20) But these very technologies--newer and more "mechanistic"--changed interest in the annual checkup into a fervor for "mass screening."