feverishness

Example Sentences

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Part musical, part character study and part crime saga, this fatally uneven drama, about a damaged soul who finds comfort only in his canine companions, brings together Besson’s most extreme tendencies without the inspired feverishness.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2024

They are rehearsing a short Tennessee Williams play whose feverishness reflects Eduardo’s approach to life — swashbuckling, peacockish, omnivorous.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2023

But his story had none of the feverishness of the previous night.

From Salon • Feb. 9, 2020

The feverishness of those days extends to geopolitics.

From The Guardian • Jul. 27, 2019

True classics in their devotion to form and freedom from the feverishness of the later men headed by Richard Strauss—why should any one seek to better them, to supplant them?

From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James