Tchaikovsky scorned Brahms as "a giftless bastard", while Elgar declared that "the unvarying breadth and grandeur of his ideas marks him out as the true successor of Beethoven .As is often the case with such fervent opposition, a person's view of Brahms depended less on the actual character of his music than on how it was described or pigeon-holed.
This gives a single sufficiently radioactive bad review a blackball effect which is, of course, the most fervent hope of the person who posted it.
Underneath every committed atheist and fervent believer is a person who has his or her own experience of pain and joy, loss and love.
Cult behavior involves a fervent devotion to a particular person, object, or idea.
Not much — an encrypted file and a note ending in what seemed to be a taunt — but enough to revive fervent speculation about what sort of person might be behind the stunt.
In person, they are civil, engaging, fervent and genuine.
Be that as it may, today, a more facile definition might state a partisan as someone who is "a fervent, sometimes militant, supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea".
Against the odds, the first person I met in Lviv was a fervent supporter of Viktor Yanukovych, the big, Russian-speaking champion of heavy industry from the east.
A chronicling of a few of the classes of persons who should, at this season, tender fervent thanks for extraordinary comforts and benefits received the past twelvemonths.
By W. E. Farbstein The New Yorker, November 28 , 1936P. 36 A chronicling of a few of the classes of persons who should, at this season, tender fervent thanks for extraordinary comforts and benefits received the past twelvemonths.
