The story of a bland young fool who is caught up in patriotic fervor, only to return home maimed and disillusioned but also deepened in spirit, the picture established John Gilbert as a star and gave the newly formed MGM studio its first big hit.
Amid the populist fervor, only a few noticed that the working-class Bostonian stood to gain little from the protest.
His rare accomplishment is to make the audience believe not only in the fervor of love — that's easy — but in its grace.
His rare accomplishment is to make the audience believe not only in the fervor of love that's easy but in its grace.
The apathy of the younger residents only fuels the fervor of their elders, who fear that exam skills will atrophy and die.
His subtle title refers not only to the fervor of the late nineteen-sixties but, more searchingly, to the ideological compromises that quondam radicals have made in the past few years.
Nostalgia was what fueled the show, which had the Beasties decked out in suits and skinny ties, tearing through hits and obscurities with an anarchic and only faintly dutiful fervor.
Fifty thousand people gathered to hear Seward speak in Detroit, and the fervor only increased as his tour moved west.
He had a glass eye (he lost the original one in a bar brawl), but he was undoubtedly a young, charismatic and handsome man a cheeky Cockney with the gift of the gab, whose ocular impairment only made his fervor seem more real.
But the fervor with which he is now rejected can be properly understood only in relation to his original appeal — as a measure of disillusionment.
