feverishness

Example Sentences

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Part musical, part character study and part crime saga, this fatally uneven drama, about a damaged soul who finds comfort only in his canine companions, brings together Besson’s most extreme tendencies without the inspired feverishness.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2024

But his story had none of the feverishness of the previous night.

From Salon • Feb. 9, 2020

There was a feverishness to the way women were telling them — as if it had just occurred to them how lonely they’d felt.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2018

It’s an exercise in feverishness and fretfulness, in urgency and appetite, a sweet and simpleminded leave-taking of the senses in the pursuit of, well, a lot.

From Time • Feb. 6, 2014

Old, weather-beaten sailor on the ocean of life as I am, I feel an amount of feverishness and anxiety I am half ashamed of.

From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James