perfervid

Example Sentences

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Two young saxophonists of bright, perfervid attack and deep assurance, Richardson, 39, and Wilkins, 22, have a lot in common.

From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2020

Playing his part, Owen carried poetry into battle: the strange, futuristic work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the perfervid verse of Swinburne, each with their own mortal relationships to the sea.

From The Guardian • Nov. 3, 2018

But free silver, as articulated in the perfervid “Cross of Gold” speech, had been the making of Bryan as a national politician, and he couldn’t bear to let it go.

From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2017

Beman dispatched his then-deputy commissioner to fly to our offices in Connecticut and pound on the table with his shoe, which I recall Finchem doing with perfervid outrage.

From Golf Digest • Nov. 8, 2016

The reaction which follows perfervid enthusiasm of this sort had settled down upon the miners and cow-boys.

From When the West Was Young by Bechdolt, Frederick R. (Frederick Ritchie)