Talking about the fiercely partisan Fox News, however, Sir Trevor shifts to his serious tone of voice (I remember that shift well, when a segue was required on News at Ten from, say, a Prince Edward-based story to an update on war).
Though Kathy Acker's feminist version of "Don Quixote" -- which turned the knight into a contemporary woman who travels through New York and London accompanied by a talking dog -- was fiercely funny at times, it was also tendentious and heavy-handed.
Though still severely brain damaged, he was inspired to go on the road when he wasn't supposed to be walking or talking, and play more fiercely than ever.
Here the lovers, two teenage cousins, are fiercely chaste, preferring "to talk and recite poetry" all night, after which they part "with no suspicion of indecency attaching to them".
They weren't talking — they were playing (for the first time in New York), and their fiercely different approaches to plucking strings made for an intriguing duet.
Mr Obama had made talking to Iran a centrepiece of his campaign, something the Republican right has fiercely resisted.Mr Obama still has problems with his Middle East policy.
Gang Lu stands stiffly talking to Chris, while Bob holds a match to his pipe and puffs fiercely; nose daggers waft up and out, right in my direction.
On the Today programme, David Cameron has been talking about emergency cuts in government spending, and a union leader has been fiercely defending the wages of public sector workers.
I mean, not that we're talking about buying Twitter…" And he then went on to say that he thinks the Twitter guys are "fiercely committed to staying independent".
But we are not talking about a choice between modern America and north Korea, but between 2010 America and 1950s America, which had a more equal income distribution, but was fiercely anti-communist.
For years, I always thought my friends up in Canada were exaggerating when they'd talk about how fiercely protective the province of Quebec -- through its official language watchdog The Office québécois de la langue française (OQLF) -- was of its French language.
