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
Yet even this term expresses too much for its average daily action, and Violence, Impulsiveness, or Vehemence would come nearer to expressing its ordinary manifestation.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, March 1887 Volume 1, Number 2 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)
The Circumstances do not lie so thick together, and follow one another with that Vehemence and Emotion as in the Original.
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph
While I was in all my Agony, I observed a decrepid old Fellow come into the Room, and looking with a Sense of Pleasure in his Face at all my Vehemence and Transport.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph
The Fable of the Bees has been presented by a Grand Jury more than once; and there is hardly a Book that has been preach'd and wrote against with greater Vehemence or Severity.
From A Letter to Dion by Viner, Jacob
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A Tale of Two Cities
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