Mary Smith saw the man she had married -- the one who baked her a cake each birthday and vigorously scrubbed fresh fruit for her to prevent infection while she was ill -- as larger than life, measured in feet and fervor both.
Mr. Steiner's entrepreneurial fervor can be measured on the Richter scale and his excitement trickles down to a new venture not involved in the Omnicom deal: Last Licks, a store he co-owns in Scarsdale, which sells ice cream and candy alongside sports memorabilia.
But by one measure, the fervor for Jeremy Lin, the sensation also known as the Knicks' point guard, is as heated as ever: A mint condition rookie trading card of Lin sold for $21,580 on Thursday afternoon.
While respondents are firmly committed to the constitutional principle of separation of church and State, standing is not measured by the intensity of the litigant's interest or the fervor of his advocacy.
Envy, hurt, territorial fervor, uranium-tipped malice, and a neediness so profound that it can never be measured, let alone assuaged, combine to grant us much entertainment, fitful panic, but no peace.
God does not measure results, only the trueness of intent and the fervor of effort.
And after measuring ambient bromine and bromochloride in the Arctic in correlation with local ozone-depletion events, my laboratory research developed a new fervor that is alive to this day.
In some ways it cannot measure up to "American Idol" — the song and dance numbers by trained actors are too canned and slick to outshine amateurs competing on live television with Depression-era fervor.
The complaint also says that after booksellers responded to "If I Did It" "with fervor and huge orders," Ms. Friedman discussed increasing the print run, a suggestion that Ms. Regan resisted because she first wanted to be able to measure public reaction.
Fervor for the measure is clear, with more than 300 lawmakers active in their sportsmen's caucus.
He is the leader of the Syrian Baath's so‐called military faction, and he mixes a measure of pragmatism with his Arab radical fervor.
