But this perfervid disputant was not always out of key with his audience.

Leaving perfervid imagination to do its work would be more erotic than any attempt to stage the real thing.

In an instant his melancholy vanished, giving way to perfervid hope.

Now, with just two, the more perfervid chauvinists, as you would expect, are foaming at the mouth.

So his feeling that she was like an idol in a perfervid novel was not really surprising at all.

If nothing seemed beyond Ludlam's perfervid imagination, everything was within his humorous grasp.

Their perfervid admiration of him was intensely embarrassing.

He speaks with all the animation one expects from an undertaker, not the perfervid Steinbrenner.

Or was this merely a quirk of Miss Polk's perfervid imagination?

The average number of perfervid supporters of democracy who actually bothered to go to the polls was about 58 percent of those eligible to vote.

It is now writ, of course, that television was successful in its inchoate efforts beyond the most perfervid dreams of democracy or marketing.

Anti-matter is not some hypothetical construct from the perfervid musings of science fiction writers or theoretical physicists.

Many people have for years sensed a yearning for some earlier, perhaps simpler human order in Picasso s perfervid classicism.

It took Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a perfervid free-marketeer, a decade to privatize less than 10 percent of British industry.

The forces of a perfervid nationalism of the right were growing again in West Germany even before the revolution in East Germany erupted.

And a spot for McDonald's spoofed perfervid Atlantans by comparing an ice-cream cone to the Olympic torch.

Its perfervid melange of writhing figures, peekaboo neo-classical costumes and acidic colors is lifted straight from Italian Mannerism.

The Connatic smiled at the somewhat, perfervid style of the report; he looked to see who had submitted it: Bonamico, the current cursar, a rather emotional man.

Getz jumps into the tune in unison with Gillespie, unfazed at the tempo, even playfully mimicking Diz's perfervid trumpet.

Rice accused Bulwer-Lytton of penning "27 novels whose perfervid turgidity I intend to expose, denude, and generally make visible."

If the gathering had a perfervid tone, it may simply have been that somebody was listening, and in the very belly of what had been a beast for so long.

Mitchell's perfervid style is miles away from the minimalism of Haruki Murakami, but the great Japanese novelist has a weirdly prominent presence in "Number9Dream."

My letters to Nettie, after one or two genuinely intended displays of perfervid tenderness, broke out towards theology, sociology, and the cosmos in turgid and startling expressions.

He is possibly the greatest rogue of all (if, in that perfervid ambience surrounding the Demon Princes, such niceties of comparison carry any shred of conviction).

Maddox reports Joyce's perfervid fantasies with a benign tolerance, quoting from the notorious letter of Dec. 8, 1909, "almost unreadable in its exaltation of fetid odor."