Sentence examples for rather fervent from inspiring English sources

On this occasion, there was a rare act of dissent, when the heads of the Roman Catholic church, Cardinal Basil Hume and Cardinal Basil Winning, put out a statement saying: "The Christian response to such tragedy is not silence, but rather fervent prayer to God for the victims, their families, the community and our society".

She was doing her best to explain her new film, "Hamlet 2," a comedy in which she plays a fictionalized version of herself, having given up show business to become a nurse only to fall for a down-on-his-luck drama teacher (and rather fervent Elisabeth Shue fan) played by Steve Coogan.

Though I was a rather fervent agnostic who dipped in and out of religious observance while Governor Cuomo the elder was in office, I paid rather close attention to the way Mario Cuomo comported himself as a Catholic.

The best make the most economic, environmental and social sense, based on facts rather than fervent beliefs.

Here, played behind the show's thin convictions by an onstage pianist, Charles Berigan, it has been robbed of its acerbic bite -- it doesn't help that not all the singers land consistently on Blitzstein's melodic astringencies -- leaving it feeling rather humorlessly fervent.

Schmitz herself comes across simply as an unthinking tool of the Nazi regime rather than a fervent anti-Semite.

He often dresses in a crumpled sports jacket and slacks, looking the part of a modern religious leader rather than a fervent Turkish nationalist or a militant Islamist.

His films lurch ahead from strong moment to strong moment, following the pleasure principle of his own fervent curiosity rather than the tracks of a plot line.

'Every truth has a counter-truth,' Yeats famously remarked, and it is finally his commitment to a culture of fervent disagreement, rather than to a war at all costs, that comes through in Foster's shrewdly measured account.

Hugo is pitched as much to cinephile adults as children, and insists, in a fervent if rather pedagogic way, on that magical quality of cinema which children and grownups generally feel without needing to be told.

By the end, the author, who calls herself a "fervent feminist", is charmed rather than exasperated; France has seduced her too.