"I have never known a man capable of such sustained self-hypnotic ideological fervor," Moynihan said.
Here in Armenia, however, not even the prospect of membership would sway most people from the patriotic fervor that has sustained them over millennia.
The other, a picture entitled The Savage, is a black and white snapshot of the 1980 Tremont Stakes at Belmont Park in which, amid the fervor of a sustained stretch battle, Great Prospector reached over, neck sinews strained to snapping, to maul Golden Derby, the eventual winner.
Fear and delusional beliefs ignited fervor, Wall Street money sustained it, and it worked -- to win.
Doubts that Pollock painted the 20-foot canvas in one sustained burst of all-night creative fervor, which was central to the artist's myth promoted by his widow, painter Lee Krasner, had been growing for some time — most cogently in the work of Pollock scholar Francis V. O'Connor.
But the challenge will be in sustaining the current fan fervor into the future.
One cannot expect patriotic fervor to sustain people for 40 years in the absence of clearly visible threats.
* * * The industrious intellect and imagination of a novelist might at times be superficially motivated by a fervor for recognition, or the desire to compete with an admired contemporary, but few works of any worth were sustained by vanity alone.
Now a new Republican breed — driven by antiregulatory fervor, allegiance to industry and a refusal to accept the fact of climate change — seeks to tear apart the edifice of environmental law constructed largely under a Republican president, Richard Nixon, and sustained until recently by bipartisan support.
The objection was sustained.
