The first example is that of a prince who is in love with a woman and has "a vehement passion for the pleasures of the flesh".
The Sarkozy moment is more like Tom Cruise pounding Oprah's sofa; the gentleman is so vehement about his love that something seems weird about it.
The funny thing about Americans and those who hide behind vehement assertions of love for this country is that they have no understanding of those who choose to defend it.
But you can't help whom you love.' He offers a vehement denial when asked if he and Tweedy are engaged, despite her once announcing: 'I don't want to be a typical footballer's wife.' Does he ever wonder what she is up to when she is pictured out on the town?
We were in love with each other like the most vehement of lovers to the last moment.
"I'm still mad as hell," she sang convincingly, a vehement endpoint to an evening otherwise saturated with peace and love.
The show is a love song to Apple's gorgeous, transformative devices, but also a vehement attack on the way they are produced, at a vast, dehumanising factory complex in southern China, where workers assemble laptops and smart phones for next to nothing, under constant surveillance.
