Sentence examples for feverishness from inspiring English sources

'feverishness' is a correct and usable word in written English
It is typically used to describe a state of being unusually and uncomfortably hot, often as a result of illness. For example, "The feverishness of his body alarmed the doctors".

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feverishness

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The quality of being feverish

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Over the past three weeks I've gobbled up episodes with the same feverishness that I did box sets of The Wire and Breaking Bad.

His works look and feel, in the feverishness of their attack, like drawn paintings or painted drawings.

Last week, someone with the dark imagination of Don DeLillo and the satirical genius of Gary Shteyngart, acting in the name of the Syrian Electronic Army, figured out exactly how to exploit the sad feverishness of this moment in American history and make us look foolish.

But if Sischy's moral imagination is of a feverishness to invoke the spirits of Fleda Vetch and Milly Theale, her atmosphere is very different from that surrounding those tense, exquisite intelligences.

In Russell's "Silver Linings Playbook," Cooper's patented anxiety — the burning blue eyes and the motormouth feverishness — nagged and clogged the early scenes.

Actual feverishness had joined forces with a sense of suddenly lowered resistance and I had gone back in and handed over my money.

He came from a family steeped in print journalism; his father took him to see the city room of the New York Post when Trow was a child, instilling him with a feeling of entitlement and feverishness.

These two aspects of his background contributed mightily to his work, both in its subject matter and in what he has described as its "feelings — or qualities" of "entitlement on the one hand and feverishness on the other".

At about the same time — he lost track of the days, so hard was he working to set up a temporary place of worship in a private house he had rented in the outskirts — Mr. Tanimoto fell suddenly ill with a general malaise, weariness, and feverishness, and he, too, took to his bedroll on the floor of the half-wrecked house of a friend in the suburb of Ushida.

This feverishness isn't confined to foreigners: friends and relatives in Karachi all warned me to "be careful" when I told them I planned to visit Peshawar; this, despite the fact that violence in Karachi regularly outstrips violence here.

As Elizabeth parries Richard's pleas and commands with a wit of steel, Mr. Spacey's performance reaches new heights of feverishness, which is saying something.

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