clamor

• Yet I smiled grimly, for their clamor was no more than the ancient fool's shout, “Great is Diana of the Ephesians.” Great Christ has had his day since, but he in turn is dead; dead in man's intellect, dead in man's heart, dead in man's life; a mere phantom, flitting about the aisles of churches, where priestly mummers go through the rites of a phantom creed. —  Prisoner for Blasphemy
• A day or two elapsed before this clamor could be appeased. —  The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Vol. II)
• Judging from the letters to the editor and the blogospheric clamor, the article, a meditation on the writer's "adventures with a surrogate mom," caused an epidemic of indigestion. —  City Journal
• Considering the dearth of higher education in Southern Nevada - UNLV is its only public university - and the great wealth even in comparison with Southern California, the private sector owes UNLV a few billion dollars to put together what all the clamor has been about: a quality research university. —  the die is cast
• Somehow lost in the clamor are the disturbing signs that our nation's current policy toward that country —  Jewschool

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