fervor

Example Sentences

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Iranian flags, however, don’t engender the same public fervor.

From The Wall Street Journal

The book’s narrative progresses chronologically, year by year, starting from 1939, when war was declared, on Sept. 3, with none of the patriotic fervor that had greeted World War I in 1914.

From The Wall Street Journal

“He was a scrupulously superficial man, believing so fervently in the magic of surfaces that his fervor almost passed for profundity,” Mr. Junod writes.

From The Wall Street Journal

But what has taken the public by surprise is the fervor with which the audience has consumed Jacob Tierney’s adaptation of author Rachel Reid’s hockey romances – and rewatched those episodes, many times.

From Salon

Corruption has drained the revolutionary fervor that sustained the state’s legitimacy.

From The Wall Street Journal