Adjective : perfervid patriotism. From Dictionary.com.
The book is overlong, repetitious, and written in a kind of perfervid prose that quickly becomes tiring. From Wordnik.com. [The One and Only] Reference
I was waiting to hear how the verdict was “perfervid” …. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Peretz Versus Walt] Reference
Like Lawrence, both were perfervid Federalists, zealous champions of. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
The perfervid strength of his convictions as to the injustice of the. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
By all the canons of romance it was now his cue for perfervid speech. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
Simpson, his brain drugged, his senses perfervid marched on in exultation. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference
And, of course, he drives Liberals nuts as we see from the perfervid prose here. From Wordnik.com. ["I've been fascinated... with the attention paid to me by people who really have not undertaken to understand how I succeed, how I define my success."] Reference
Even in its ideologically perfervid condition it is better than no newspaper at all. From Wordnik.com. [Emmett Tyrrell Admits: We Have Our Own 'Conservative Counterculture' Media, Led By WSJ & Fox News] Reference
The billiard tables and other accessories imagined by perfervid patriots vanish into thin air. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference
A man proposes to you as if he were asking you for the sixth waltz, only his manner is perfervid. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
I suspect the purple, perfervid tone of the McCain campaign will not hold up very well in the fall. From Wordnik.com. [Today’s Appeasement Smackdown - Swampland - TIME.com] Reference
Kelly believes that his anti-Semitism flowed intrinsically from his perfervid political millenarianism. From Wordnik.com. [The Millennium & Dostoevsky: An Exchange] Reference
It is thought he may have got so far as Prague, where at any rate a perfervid preacher called Baptist von. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
The perfervid woman has sometimes communicated too much of her fervour to the very language of the author. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
The final article, called "Wanted: American Radicals" and published in 1943, was the most perfervid of the three. From Wordnik.com. [The Structure of Success in America] Reference
But Safire told me last week that the story is false, another product of what he calls Inman's "perfervid imagination.". From Wordnik.com. [Where There's Smoke, There's Safire] Reference
But doesn't the perfervid embrace of the ridiculous say something about McCain's qualifications to lead this country forward?. From Wordnik.com. [Robert L. Borosage: McCain and the Cuba Libre] Reference
The South China Sea has long been the subject of its perfervid declarations and domestic propaganda as a kind of oceanic Tibet. From Wordnik.com. [Hollow Talk in the South China Sea] Reference
The declaration is but one more example not so much of perfervid rhetoric as the toll the hard campaign has taken on Senator Obama. From Wordnik.com. [Mayhill Fowler: Obama Rolling Through PA] Reference
That makes Mr Martin's column a piece of perfervid nonsense, especially his conclusion that War for oil is hardly a savoury option. From Wordnik.com. [Afstan, oil (?!?) and the Globe and Mail] Reference
Brewster, and others strive to resuscitate football spirit; nightly mass-meetings were held, and enough perfervid oratory hurled to move a. From Wordnik.com. [T. Haviland Hicks Senior] Reference
With Renoir, you have melting arabesques and perfervid color. From Wordnik.com. [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference
And this perfervid and most serious account was in truth very funny. From Wordnik.com. [In the Mist of the Mountains] Reference
This is to our mind singularly characteristic of our perfervid Scotsman. From Wordnik.com. [Spare Hours] Reference
This long speech gave Lurida's perfervid brain time to cool off a little. From Wordnik.com. [A Mortal Antipathy: first opening of the new portfolio] Reference
Mrs. Lessingham, quite aware of his perfervid state of mind, had pleasure in delaying. From Wordnik.com. [The Emancipated] Reference
Then all the converging batteries opened full; while the whole population of perfervid. From Wordnik.com. [Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray] Reference
I am not impressed by the perfervid letters published by the editor in praise of somebody's story as a. From Wordnik.com. [Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism] Reference
If they had been lovers out of a book, they would have talked in dithyrambs or long perfervid paragraphs. From Wordnik.com. [The House of Toys] Reference
"I don't know where I was most miserable," I rejoined, beginning to see the matter in a less perfervid light. From Wordnik.com. [A Thief in the Night: a Book of Raffles' Adventures] Reference
And it wouldn't have been easy to wean the Democratic core from its perfervid dream of nationalized health care. From Wordnik.com. [Articles on National Review Online] Reference
Unfortunately, there is no form of ability which is so transient in its effects as this perfervid style of oratory. From Wordnik.com. [Wilmot and Tilley] Reference
I told them they could go at once in search of the hottest place ever pictured by a diseased and perfervid human imagination. From Wordnik.com. [The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake] Reference
His grand-uncle, it appeared, had been a minister himself, and had performed the feat -- to which I have occasionally heard other perfervid. From Wordnik.com. [The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton] Reference
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