Typically Mr. Smith would handle the beginning of a song and Mr. Wynne would take over with gospel-style fervor toward the end.
He is undoubtedly biased, in this respect, as only a gloomy European could be biased, leaning with ridiculous fervor toward the past and scorning the idea that some people might, with pleasure, ride the surge of time that bears them into the future.
But by 1929, as revolutionary fervor veered toward authoritarianism, and Rivera fell out with the Mexican Communist Party, he accepted an offer to paint in San Francisco.
The revolutionary fervor that rises toward the end of the film is rousing and gratifying.
Their snobbishness and democratic affectations, their wish to be admired, their enthusiasm for clubs and associations, and their tendency toward religious fervor all enter his gaze.
They harbor a religious-like fervor, a blind hostility toward taxes in any and all forms that is impervious to fact or reason.
At Islam's core, in the countries of the Middle East from Egypt to Iran, tajdid and islah have helped push societies toward extremes of fervor, repression, and violence.
Sugrobov's wife, Maria, with whom he has five children, told me, "Youth gives a certain fervor, a sense of daring toward everything, an understanding that a person can move mountains".
On Wednesday she began it quietly, almost like a lullaby, and carried it toward a clarion fervor, moving between Western and Arabic modes and drawing the audience into a singalong finale.
Based on the Sanskrit Rāmāyaṇa by Valmiki, it is a climactic blend of earlier Śaṅgam poetry, Tamil epics, the Alvars' fervor of personal bhakti (devotion) toward Rama, folk motifs, and Sanskrit stories, metres, and poetic devices.
Both serialized television and sprawling fictional cycles can exert special holds, though, and their congruence here can go a long way toward explaining the fervor fans feel for "Game of Thrones," where they see Mr. Martin's nerdily meticulous fantasy world brought to life with respect and high production values.
