(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."
Zealot
Definition:
(n.) One who is zealous; one who engages warmly in any cause, and pursues his object with earnestness and ardor; especially, one who is overzealous, or carried away by his zeal; one absorbed in devotion to anything; an enthusiast; a fanatical partisan.
Example Sentences:
(1) I must also accept that Cameron recruits the best and the brightest, who just happen to be his schoolmates, and that education should be overhauled by a nostalgic zealot who has never taught and dismisses evidence.
(2) In truth, in the space of one gag I had become more than a fan – I had become a zealot.
(3) An attack on Syria or Iran or any other US "demon" would draw on a fashionable variant, "Responsibility to Protect", or R2P – whose lectern-trotting zealot is the former Australian foreign minister Gareth Evans , co-chair of a " global centre " based in New York.
(4) Increasingly, the paranoid defensiveness of the zealots cannot be reconciled with the righteous anger of those who believe every superlative performance must be suspect.
(5) Even then, Cameron heard a constant hum of discontent from the Brexit brigade: taxpayer-funded blimps such as Peter Bone and Philip Davies (he of the recent attacks on “feminist zealots” .
(6) A man stands up, spreads his arms wide and sings: “We love you Brian, we do.” He is instantly joined in the chant by a cluster of zealots dressed, like he is, from bobble hat to weatherproof boots in the royal blue and white livery of Sarpsborg 08 football club.
(7) But an international landscape increasingly dominated by nationalist firebrands, conservative zealots and policy makers in thrall to austerity economics is always apt to waste opportunities.
(8) The son of two devoted workers for the Salvation Army, Jeffries disliked personal publicity and was a zealot when preparing a role (he ran two miles every morning before appearing in the musical Hello Dolly!
(9) Yet zealots are attempting to have legislators pass laws preventing the use of electrotherapy even in voluntary patients.
(10) To the United States government, defenders of the war in Vietnam and conservatives everywhere, Ali was the most dangerous of enemies, a converted zealot, the bombastic mouthpiece of a religion few until then had heard of and hardly any of whom understood, the Nation of Islam.
(11) The presence of religious zealots such as Poots in government is a direct consequence of the peace process.
(12) He said: “Tomorrow, ironically, is the day the United Kingdom becomes truly united because it has only one position: that we are leaving the EU.” The former Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said it was the moment that the “utopian wishful thinking from Brexiters” gave way to hard realities, calling on May to “face down the Brexit zealots in her own party and in the Brexit press”.
(13) In an analysis based on hundreds of case files, the security services concluded that there was no single pathway to extremism and far from being religious zealots, many of those involved in terrorism lacked religious literacy, did not practise their faith regularly and could even be regarded as religious novices.
(14) The GWPF is led by Lord Nigel Lawson and the annual lecture has been given by high-profile climate sceptics, including in 2013 former Australian prime minister John Howard, who described those urging action on climate change as “alarmists” and “zealots” for whom “the cause has become a substitute religion”.
(15) Barbers are banned from shaving off beards and women are forced to wear dark robes, while zealots ensure that music is banned from radio stations.
(16) That aside, Watson highlighting efforts by the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty (AWL) to get involved in the Labour party will undoubtedly fuel a media narrative that Labour is falling under the spell of revolutionary zealots.
(17) As the crowd swelled toward sunrise on Friday, it seemed to represent the larger citizenry of the American south: a calm and forward-looking people, shot through with a smaller number of zealots.
(18) St-Pierre warns that “based on the success of this long-term strategy so far, it is very difficult to imagine a scenario where Maiduguri does not fall into Boko Haram’s hands, albeit for a short period.” Boko Haram has morphed from a handful of religious zealots into a fighting force capable of taking on, and beating, one of Africa’s largest armies From a military perspective, this would be a stunning achievement for Boko Haram, which has morphed from a handful of religious zealots into a fighting force capable of taking on, and beating, one of Africa’s largest armies.
(19) But to others, Assange is just a zealot with a messiah complex.
(20) The anti-immigrant, anti-refugee, anti-international aid zealots.