A fevered imagination. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Noun : scarlet fever. ,The audience was in a fever of anticipation. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : The excitement fevered him. From Dictionary.com.
I will take steps to learn my way around Seattle better, so that I don't feel trapped indoors/stir crazy/cabin fevered. From Wordnik.com. [Happy New Year!] Reference
She lives that kind of fevered life now that she likes excitement. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Chronicle of Barset] Reference
To that kind of fevered existence profuse expenditure is perhaps necessary. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Chronicle of Barset] Reference
Is the film some kind of fevered dream taking place in Bill's sexually frustrated mind?. From Wordnik.com. [Films I Love #14: Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)] Reference
But we -- I mean, I think that they must leak a certain amount in order to build up that kind of fevered (ph) anticipation. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 9, 2009] Reference
The rise of the viral right here has fostered the same kind of fevered imaginings. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
Vocal tone, delivery of the line, facial expression, and body language do not support the sentiment that she's "fevered" at all. From Wordnik.com. [PegasusNews.com stories] Reference
They're mostly a product of a fevered imagination. From Wordnik.com. ['Sharon Is Weaker'] Reference
Grip it until it's damp and hot, fevered, slippery. From Wordnik.com. [The Taste of Coins from Treasure Troves] Reference
He'd wipe and sweep and mop with a fevered intensity. From Wordnik.com. [Pets] Reference
Perhaps booms feel this way -- fevered, chaotic, giddy. From Wordnik.com. [Seasick In A Rising Tide] Reference
But Garcia existed only in Ruelas's fevered imagination. From Wordnik.com. [Eye Of The Tiger] Reference
Her fevered imagination is fed by patterns in the wallpaper. From Wordnik.com. [Ten of the best nameless protagonists in literature] Reference
He was trembling, and a fevered expression had come into his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
She bathed her fevered face in cold water, then she walked up to her mirror. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Some of the realistic scenarios, indeed, are scarier than the more fevered ones. From Wordnik.com. [How Will The Clone Feel?] Reference
Like her state, Palin is the perfect scrim for all of our fevered projections. From Wordnik.com. ['American Idol’ Meets ‘Northern Exposure’] Reference
There was continually before my fevered eyes the strange figure of that Nameless Thing. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
"Before we know it she will be sighing that Allen has only one fevered brow to smooth!". From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge Or, the hermit of Moonlight falls] Reference
Dr. Clinton is a more successful president than the fevered critics can yet acknowledge. From Wordnik.com. [The Two Mr. Clintons] Reference
"There are elements of our party that are marching through the fevered swamps of ideology.". From Wordnik.com. [Joe Scarborough Takes On Newt Gingrich Mosque Comments: 'It's Deplorable, It Is Sick Politics' (VIDEO)] Reference
And in the fevered moments before he died he rubbed his wrinkled hands and licked his lips. From Wordnik.com. [s a compromising situation...] Reference
And as Ned sprang back the gold-fevered marshal sprang forward and plunged his hand into the liquid. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
Night seemed to fall early on Fort de Seviere, waiting sadly for its healing touch on fevered hearts. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
Admittedly, those who think this dystopia the product of fevered minds have some arguments on their side. From Wordnik.com. [After Sheep And Pigs, Goo] Reference
Mao's next fevered move to push China into socialism was the Great Leap Forward to communize agriculture. From Wordnik.com. [Deng's Revolution] Reference
McCarthyism did not emerge on that cold day solely from the fevered imagination of the Wisconsin senator. From Wordnik.com. [Stephan Salisbury: Extremism at Ground Zero (Again)] Reference
Interest in America's already long and hotly contested electoral campaign soon began to reach a fevered pitch. From Wordnik.com. [Rory O'Connor: Are We Entering a "Fact-Free" Period in Politics and Media?] Reference
When the boys come home all we shall be allowed to do will be to smooth their fevered brows and hold their hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge Or, the hermit of Moonlight falls] Reference
Céline declared that she was growing more fevered every moment, and as for her pulse, it was like a trip-hammer. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
His fevered rants of an international plot against the Serbs gets better audience ratings than popular soap operas. From Wordnik.com. [Back To The Future] Reference
Often she heard her own name in those fevered whisperings; once he said with sudden determination, "I'm going home.". From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
Beyond that, though, is the fevered mindset that would suggest that "separation from this government" may be necessary. From Wordnik.com. [Notable] Reference
"Well, you needn't think you can hold hands with Will and smooth his fevered brow all the time," said Grace unexpectedly. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge Or, the hermit of Moonlight falls] Reference
In the fevered '80s, Frida Kahlo's posthumous performance in the auction pit last week would have met with a resounding "Eh?". From Wordnik.com. [Frida On Our Minds] Reference
"Yeah, America's in trouble," Thompson told NEWSWEEK in the midst of a night of fevered wagering at the Times Square ESPN Zone. From Wordnik.com. [Media: Godfather Of Gonzo] Reference
Burying his fevered face in his hands, the boy wept, partly in pain and partly because he knew that he was holding back his chum. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
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