fervor

• “Before all the Blogs Start I believe that the Palin fervor is more basic then conservative and liberal.”

  Johnston: Palin wanted to take the money, 'forget everything else'

• “In two words, which Wilson later apologized for, all the fury and fervor from the raucous health care town halls of August spilled over into the supposedly civil sanctum of the House of Representatives.”

  Obama and Wilson put Democrats on offensive

• “The so-called “second wave” has breathed new life into a protest that was dwindling in fervor by the day.”

  Global Voices in English » Georgia: Opposition protests enter fifth day

• “The timing of this immigration fervor is in time for getting the immigration wedge issue going for election ‘10? when lee atwater’s old index cards are all you have to go on, you tend to end up running the same campaigns over and over and over again. fortunately, amnesiacs like fuzzy and the ‘baggers never catch on that it’s always a re-run.”

  Think Progress » Kristol Supports Arizona Immigration Law: ‘I Don’t Think It Violates Anyone’s Civil Rights’

• “If personal fervor is the yardstick upon which systems of belief are to be measured, then perhaps bitblt should convert to Islam.”

  Think Progress » Fox News Televangelist Hume: Tiger Would Be ‘Farther Down The Road’ To ‘Forgiveness’ With Christianity

• “That hurtling-along-the-edge fervor is what stamped the early slam with its signature.”

  She can drink legally now! : Patricia Smith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation

• “It's really too bad that the Scopes Trial, and attendant religeous fervor, is relevant at all today, but we have "Intelligent (sic) Design" and "Creationism" being pushed on people by well-heeled manipulators like Ayatollah Robertson.”

  View from the Northern Border

• “A great Niagara of religious fervor is cascading down around them while they stand obtuse and dry in the little cave of their own parochialism — and many of them are journalists and policy analysts, who are paid to keep up with these things.”

  Kicking the Secularist Habit

• “Today across the global South a rising religious fervor is coinciding with declining autonomy for nation-states, making useful an analogy with the medieval concept of Christendom — the Res Publica Christiana — as an overarching source of unity and a focus of loyalty transcending mere kingdoms or empires.”

  The Next Christianity

• “No English words convey precisely the mingling of banter, and earnestness, of archness, devotion, shyness and fervor implied in the Latin words as uttered by Vedia.”

  Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire

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