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Example sentences for: fervor

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The scrambled space opera The Fifth Element has all the fervor but none of the charm; it would probably improve in a 10-year-old's retelling.
In a country with a century of national unity and the scalding experience of Mussolini’s fascism, sports seem almost the only activity that can inspire any semblance of patriotic fervor in Italians.
And so Updike, in his fervor, goes on a search for God (to thus label the object of his desires) directly, by means of an intimate, unblinking examination of the world in front of his own nose.
What a pained admission from an acknowledge authority on the language-- particularly one who had earlier celebrated the revolutionary fervor in the United States that had led, at the end of the 18th century, to forswearing... supine parrotry.
More important, he has sought out Brother Blackwell (John Beasley), a retired black preacher whose fervor once generated several heart attacks and who now reposes with his wife in a house under the highway.