But there is really more than fervent talk and hand-waving going on here.
"Whatever one thinks of the policies advocated by Lewis — and he really wasn't a fervent policy advocate — it can't be denied that he mapped the trajectory of the present-day Middle East in advance," said Martin Kramer, a professor at Shalem College in Jerusalem and a former student of Dr. Lewis's at Princeton.
But perhaps it's really down to these presenters, fervent as evangelists.
What is really going on is that their fervent hope for a deal rests on a naïve assumption that the very able Mr. Ryan will strike a responsible compromise, even though he has made clear that he will not.
Both are helmed by Marc Vetri, whose enormous talents have brought him a widespread, fervent regard he has never really exploited.
"We really need a bridge bank," said Mr. Yoshitomi, a fervent advocate of an expanded version of the Total Plan.
Really, there are no other options: Johnson, repeating the fervent support given earlier this off-season by Ryan and Tannenbaum, guaranteed that Holmes would return next season.
Having Kitty harbor a fervent affection for the sitcom "Will & Grace" does not really disguise the contrivance of his inclusion in some scenes, although some of his sardonic commentary is choice.
That is one of his unforgivable crimes in the eyes of the more ideologically fervent members of his party who complain that he is not really a Tory at all.
Consider how even the most fervent fans still put down the shows they love, saying, "Well, really, it's just a well-made soap opera" — even as soap operas themselves have disappeared from daytime TV, chased off by reality series and talk shows.
