perfervid

• The same hubris that drove the Iraq war and led us to believe we could "transform" the Middle East, as some of the more perfervid neocons insisted, drove our financial leaders over a similarly steep cliff. —  Antiwar.com Original
• The starlight was brilliant above them eager, perfervid, passionate. —  Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales
• To all such schemes he was prepared to oppose his firmest resistance, for his loyalty was of the perfervid order, and his dislike of Mackenzie probably imparted additional zeal to his opposition. —  The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion
• He drowned the pretty little stories in oceans of perfervid orchestration, and banged all the sentiment out of them with drums and cymbals. —  The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.
• Lord Durham's report, drafted for him by two master hands, those of Charles Buller and Edward Wakefield, could not be disposed of by perfervid orators or ill-informed editors. —  Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights

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