His custom-built red wheelchair has a seat-back cushion with an image of a stallion rearing from a wheelchair; as he rolled himself up and down the halls of Akson, his jaws working fervently, you felt that the same image was in his head.
I used to admire this about you, how fervently you clung to your beliefs—I called it integrity but five years of watching you live this way has changed me.
"It's a massive undertaking," wrote John Walsh in the Independent, "a fluent sociopolitical history of the British intelligentsia in the 20th century's most turbulent years... this hugely detailed, exhaustively researched family saga makes you marvel, again and again, at the strangeness of this very English family, while leaving you fervently grateful you're not actually related to them".
As much as you may resent their changed priorities and believe fervently that you are a free spirit, battling on against the pressures of society's norms, you really aren't up there with Che Guevara.
After Stevenson lost, Frankel wrote him, saying, "I wanted fervently for you to win, and I didn't care too much how you played the game".
You can point at child tax credits and SureStart centres as fervently as you want, but the housing crisis has impoverished millions and means that 100,000 children are living in temporary accommodation.
In its second half the book shifts to an extended argument for new approaches to confronting disease and extreme poverty in the developing countries, and especially for far more generous aid.Aid can work, the book argues fervently, but you have to think big.
In a letter distributed electronically within the company last Friday, Mr. Walker wrote, "Packin' more than 850,000 shares of Autodesk stock in my saddlebags, I remain keenly interested in Autodesk and fervently wish you continued success". The stock closed at $53.875 a share Tuesday in Nasdaq trading, down $1.50.
You believed fervently in what you said; it was all over your face, your gestures.
(I'm also fervently hoping that you'll forget you wanted a cookie).
No matter how many sun salutations you have pretzeled yourself into over the years, no matter how fervently and frequently you have chanted "Om," chances are you never envisioned yourself indulging your yoga habit — not merely nodding at it, but really indulging it — while your children were within shouting distance.
