vehemence
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Vehemence, Authenticity and a prodigal use of adjectives usually determine the winner, who is chosen by audience applause.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though on my acquainting him with the shameful and surprizing Accident he made no Stay, but answering, with a good deal of Vehemence, Good God, is it possible? hastened back as fast as he could.
From Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton by Defoe, Daniel
Vehemence in controversy, domineering audacity of purpose, the power of moving crowds by incisive harangues, were the qualities which the younger generation seemed disposed to cultivate.
From Studies in Contemporary Biography by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount
"Tell her," cried Norman, in a wild burst of eloquence, "that, like two grasshoppers in a volcano, we are shrivelled up in the presence of Her Spangled Vehemence!"
From A Tangled Tale by Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett)
We are told that the great Latin Orator very much impaired his Health by this laterum contentio, this Vehemence of Action, with which he used to deliver himself.
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph
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