Which is why many business lobbyists who have met Mr. DeLay recently have been struck by his fervor.
A week earlier, his students had been especially struck by Kennedy's fervor in discussing his decision in the 1992 abortion case, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, in which he had changed his position unexpectedly and cast the crucial vote to uphold the core of Roe v. Wade, even though that decision conflicted with his own personal beliefs.
The performance I attended was the last in the run, and I was struck by the almost frantic nature of the applause, and by the fervor of the hugs exchanged onstage.
Nevertheless, we pushed on with fervor, convinced we were about to strike it rich.
Some living people show up too, notably Ray Liotta as the E.M.T. — now stricken with cancer and bright-eyed with religious fervor — who saved Charlie's life after the accident that killed Sam.
She tried to strike a balance between showing the emotion and fervor common to Wall Street's top traders — she, like others, would frequently snap a pencil when frustrated — and projecting the authority of a senior executive.
What is striking, talking to Ryan's mentor, is not the policies but the fervor and the deep suspicion of the other side's motives.
In the solo Ms. White-McGuire's arms fold in like broken wings and her feet strike down hard; brisk claps and finger snaps emphasize the character's demonic fervor.
(Her perpetual chanting of the word takes on a religious fervor, another way for her to find happiness and eventually salvation.) Many of the "Bridge" characters are stricken with guilt.
In response to our food-obsessed age of the Food Network, "beyond-organic food" and even the fervor stirred up by Bruni's own weekly restaurant reviews in The Times, this description of his relationship with food as comfort and, to be sure, emotional palliative, strikes me as a poignant and powerful rejoinder.
