In the book Rock and Roll: An Introduction, authors Michael Campbell and James Brody suggested that "Redding's singing calls to mind a fervent black preacher.
Instead of grounding the discussion of how we can achieve a more equitable racial climate in empty political rhetoric, the "tasteless" and "inflammatory" members of the St Louis Rams – those five brave black men – held their hands high in the air, their chests open and vulnerable, in the fervent hope that our minds and hearts might follow.
It is his fervent hope that before her mind completely deteriorates, he can give her the church wedding she wanted when they were younger but he was unable to provide.
By 1600, however, he changed his mind and became a fervent Catholic.
It seems that in the minds of its most fervent defenders, the family unit's only glue is violence and women's serfdom.
Opening with a lone humming synth that feels like a knowing nod to the Killers, the song soon splinters into a synth screech that's reminiscent of the Pet Shop Boys Alwayss on My Mind then explodes into a fervent chorus.
Perhaps with the 9/11 hijackers in mind, he told the judge, "No one holds more fervent political views than our Islamic terrorists".
As a fervent feminist (25 years back), and taking time to make up my mind, I made a joke: "I haven't got my husband here to help me decide".
More importantly, the friendship between Mary and Ann closely resembles the relationship between Wollstonecraft and her intimate companion Fanny Blood, who meant "all the world" to her and, as Wollstonecraft's husband William Godwin later put it, "for whom she contracted a friendship so fervent, as for years to have constituted the ruling passion of her mind".
But with the river's restoration — or redemption, as some fervent supporters of the $325 million project put it — has come a mind-bogglingly large surge of sediment.
