Though we desperately want to be accepted for who we really are, we fervently seek the comfort of community and so prevent our true nature to be seen and deny our real self full expression.
But all it really proves is that Conservatives believe fervently in the concept of rehabilitation – for themselves.
So how fervently does Wall Street really support Clinton?
Frankly in my head Dr Who already has sexy bits, namely Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant (and sometimes, fervently, together), but this sounded really too good to be true.
By the time I'd grown out of Playaway, I fervently wished that Toni Arthur would, but really?
The dog, whom Emerence insists on calling Viola, although it is male (later we find out why), immediately attaches itself fervently to Emerence, and the narrator who really does not care a whit about the dog is jealous at any deep affection that is not aimed in her direction.
"This is Cameron's life and his world … but I understand what it means to really care about something and to be enraptured with music," she says fervently.
And through it all, no, it isn't a village, really; nor is it metropolitan bohemia, though some of Mackay's flightier characters might fervently wish that it were.
No matter how fervently children cling to the belief that fairies yet linger in the backyard, fireflies are really fallen stars and stuffed animals can talk, absolutely, the adult world (with its tedium, stresses and need for matched socks) will slowly encroach on theirs.
