Johnson claimed the "part-Kenyan president" harbored an "ancestral dislike of the British empire — of which Churchill had been such a fervent defender". The remarks irked Conservative member of Parliament Nicholas Soames, who happens to be Churchill's grandson.
Afterwards, to her fervent agreement, he remarked that it was a great relief to see a film with "absolutely no sex in it".
The inaugural Tea Party convention, organized by the social networking site Tea Party Nation, featured remarks by fervent opponents of gay marriage and abortion rights, including the Baptist pastor Rick Scarborough And some leaders criticized Sarah Palin -- normally a Tea Party favorite -- for advocating "divine intervention" to help the country.
Well, I think Johnson was wrong and this was a most uncharacteristic remark for him, a fervent Tory, to have made, since conservatives, generally in Europe anyway, had been associated with patriotic sentiment and the nationalist sentiment.
Alas, the impression of fervent cliché isn't helped by Earhart's remarks.
'Every truth has a counter-truth,' Yeats famously remarked, and it is finally his commitment to a culture of fervent disagreement, rather than to a war at all costs, that comes through in Foster's shrewdly measured account.
Bertrand Russell loses his college fellowship for opposing the war; a visiting DH Lawrence offers a few characteristic remarks about the "hard, unloving, impervious shell" of marriage and JM Keynes some fervent observations on male genitalia.
And supporters of the treaty said yesterday that they were discouraged by the remarks made on Saturday by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi when he met with President Bush, a fervent opponent of the treaty.
What Mr. Bush did today, and the way in which he presaged it with a series of remarks on Wednesday, suggested that he was at least somewhat sensitive to his image as a fervent advocate of capital punishment and pleased to happen upon a case that allowed him to temper it.
He was a fervent patriot.
