Sentence examples for were fervent about from inspiring English sources

If Eastern Europeans knew what they'd left behind and were fervent about where they were heading, they had little idea about the nature of the journey they were undertaking.

They're fervent about him.

Mr. Kaiser is fervent about staging these well.

I do meet younger people who are fervent about reform.

She was fervent about this, but it was hard to pin down exactly what she wanted him to express.

Mr. Schrempp is fervent about growth prospects there, saying it will be the world's second-largest auto market by 2013.

He is fervent about Japan becoming what some call a more "normal" country that is, one shorn of externally imposed constraints on autonomy in foreign and even domestic spheres.

Without being Nabokovians (Nabokov used such clanking words as "mollitude" in his outlandishly literal translation of "Eugene Onegin," and insisted on calling Stiva Oblonsky, in "Anna Karenina, Steveve"), they want the English to sound as close to the Russian as possible, and they are fervent about the importance of "roughening up" their versions when the Russian demands it.

The event is agnostic about domestic vs. international poverty alleviation models, for-profit vs. nonprofit, policy vs. entrepreneurship, but we are fervent about vetting for Delegates who are strong leaders with records of accomplishment, who appreciate leverage and sustainability, and who are unafraid to think outside their own traditional operating models.

In economically ravaged Spain and Greece there were fervent discussions about the death of Communism and the birth of neo-liberalism.

These prayers were fervent, desperate.