Few writing careers have been as public as that of Wolf, East Germany's most famous writer; she was both a loyal supporter of her country and a fervent critic (watched by the Stasi and also, for a brief period early in her career, informing for it), and then became a bitter opponent of German reunification.
My most fervent atheistic prayer on watching Another Year was "Don't let me ever, ever become like her (again)." Does Leigh's representation of Mary border on the misogynist, as David Cox suggested in a blog on the film site this week?
Tens of thousands of Palestinians waving Palestinian flags marched through East Jerusalem today as the Israeli police stood back and watched the most fervent, open display of Palestinian nationalism in the heart of this city in more than three decades.
Mr. Kim is known to be a fervent basketball fan, and the two watched a game together during Mr. Rodman's previous visit.
Bertolucci, now in a wheelchair, was the president of the jury at this year's Festival, and so it was all the more stirring to watch him — and his younger, fervent selves — talk about the wellsprings of his art.
As a fervent Christian boy, gay affection was actually disgusting to watch.
But her extraordinary sense of theatre makes her compelling to watch, whether she's sexually teasing Marcelo Álvarez's fervent Cavaradossi in church, or attacking George Gagnidze's perverted Scarpia with a violence that borders on the pathological.
But many fitness trackers and smartwatches already do such things—at a much lower cost.Apple has enough fervent fans of its brand to shift a few million watches a year.
Then we go to Main Street at Disneyland, or watch "Titanic" or read the latest Edwardian mystery novel, in the fervent hope that, if only for an instant, we can pretend that it's 1910 again and the world once more will have purpose and meaning.
But secondly, watch the way he replies to this question from journalist and fervent anti-doping crusader, Paul Kimmage, at a 2009 press conference.
