(1) We also seem to be heading increasingly towards a directors’ theatre, where the ability to rework standard classics takes precedence over new writing: look at the fervid excitement created by current productions of The Crucible and A Streetcar Named Desire .
(2) Kitson inspires fervid devotion in his fans, however, and when I posted my review , they took it as a personal affront.
(3) There, amid the fervid rhetoric, was their rationale.
(4) Good” v “bad” graffiti might continue to be disputed between fervid councillors, but Eine says the public have moved on.
(5) An opportunity to defeat the government that Labour so fervidly claim to oppose, yet they abstained and allowed the government to defeat us.
(6) Sometimes they choose stories as a reaction to current events: 2011's The Ides of March was a response to America's fervid political climate; 2006's Good Night and Good Luck was "a reaction to what was going on with the war, and George speaking out about the war and getting hammered," Heslov says.
Tempestuous
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a tempest; involving or resembling a tempest; turbulent; violent; stormy; as, tempestuous weather; a tempestuous night; a tempestuous debate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Jets have overperformed to this point, reaching the halfway stage at a respectable 4-4, when many had expected them to struggle in the wake of a tempestuous offseason.
(2) Spurs’ title hopes were abruptly ended following a tempestuous match in which 12 players were booked by the referee, Mark Clattenburg.
(3) Among the big names in the running for the awards are Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter, who are recognised for their portrayal of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in a BBC4 drama based on the couple's tempestuous life together.
(4) It seems that Malema's dramatic and tempestuous political career may be over for now.
(5) This derby bore little resemblance to the tempestuous Merseyside affairs against Everton – of which Gerrard played in 33 – and he was withdrawn three minutes from time.
(6) In 2007 Winehouse married Blake Fielder-Civil, a part-time gopher for a music video company with whom she had been having an on-off tempestuous relationship.
(7) Notwithstanding tempestuous progress in the development of monoclonal antibody kits, culturing of Coxsackie viruses will continue to be of substantive importance to diagnosis, because of the small size of pathogens.
(8) Before the long balmy era we have enjoyed over the past 10,000 years, climate was often much more tempestuous.
(9) He left his children's mother for Emmanuelle star Sylvia Kristel , with whom he had a brief, hedonistic, tempestuous relationship with violence on both sides.
(10) Among the big names in the running for the awards are Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter, who are recognised for their portrayal of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in a BBC4 drama based on the couple's tempestuous life together with leading actor and actress award nominations.
(11) Prominent substance abuse history, tempestuous biographies, and unstable early home environment were common to all diagnostic subgroups.
(12) Eight years later they'd meet again at Villa Park, Rafael Albrecht getting himself sent off for kneeing Helmut Haller in the swingers during a tempestuous (but goalless) group game.
(13) Mourinho, reviled in Spain following his tempestuous spell at Real Madrid, made it known in the build up that it was Hazard, and not Cristiano Ronaldo, who deserved to be known as the second best player on earth.
(14) Roy Keane has described himself as living with a “self-destruct button” as he looks back over his tempestuous career and tries to explain his old drinking habits and how difficult he found it to adjust to life after playing football.
(15) The birth of the parliament in Edinburgh has been tempestuous, with rows over Section 28, the mounting cost of the parliament building and the exam results fiasco.
(16) At a tempestuous session of the self-proclaimed supreme council of the Donetsk People's Republic on Tuesday afternoon, there was shouting and arguing about the best way forward, and the divisions between different strands of the movement were apparent.
(17) Over the tempestuous decade of his 1970s glory years, Bowie illuminated popular culture in a way unequalled since, and which is unimaginable in the X Factor era.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Vice-president Joice Mujuru, formerly known as Spill Blood, has an often tempestuous relationship with Grace Mugabe.
(19) Photograph: Lisa Ricciotti It is the work of Algerian-born French architect Rudy Ricciotti , a tempestuous and provocative iconoclast described by designer Philippe Starck as "a clairvoyant, untamable wild animal".
(20) But her announcement, following the departure this year of Behan's predecessor, Cynthia Bower, will have drawn much of the sting from what was likely to have been a tempestuous hearing.