But the truth was that her fervent, obsessive affair with the piano was crowding in on her faith.
At least two alternative rock bands have named themselves after Mr. Kastle's movie, which relates, in stark black-and-white images, the fervent love affair between an overweight nurse (Shirley Stoler) and a failed gigolo (Tony Lo Bianco).
In the last few years I've even been forced to quit my fervent love affair with my roses and instead plant succulents.
But just how little regard Messiaen, a fervent Roman Catholic, had for worldly affairs is apparent in the "Diptyque," where earthly life is depicted as a vain bustle in contrast to the sublime stasis of paradise.
As faithful as Mr. Wright has tried to be in his fervent new "Anna Karenina," in this sort of affair fidelity is a fragile, finite thing.
She would accompany her lover, a German artist and fervent anti-Nazi, to his hometown, Stuttgart, so that he could put his mother's affairs in order.
Her only public statement about the affair was the one she issued to the Guardian after Maxwell, Dershowitz and the Andrew issued their fervent denials.
Tyler, isolated and outside the two-party mainstream, turned to foreign affairs to salvage his presidency, aligning himself with a southern states' rights faction that shared his fervent slavery expansionist views.
The apocalyptic faith, which became so fervent as Israel moved toward its fateful overthrow by the Romans in 70 ce, conceived of salvation as the miraculous intervention of the Lord or his messiah (literally "anointed one") in world affairs.
He was a fervent patriot.
