I love words that sound like what they mean, and to me, "perfervid" sounds absolutely ARDENT.
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Even I, with my perfervid imagination, cannot concoct a scenario in which she turns him down.
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Two young saxophonists of bright, perfervid attack and deep assurance, Richardson, 39, and Wilkins, 22, have a lot in common.
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It takes its title from the perfervid 1912 lyric that thrust its winsome author to the center of the literary scene.
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And I haven't forgotten his perfervid opinion dissenting from the court's 2015 decision declaring a constitutional right to same-sex marriage.
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They tore up divots of clotted trash from the ground and hurled them at one another in perfervid frustration with each other's views.
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It was a rich time in the game's history, especially in New York, the undisputed center of the baseball universe, home to three teams and three perfervid fan bases.
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To sum up, only in the perfervid imaginations of the politically correct — those who reject the idea of borders — could the Syrian refugee controversy be confused with a constitutional controversy.
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We can't count on Robert Mueller, the special counsel, because we don't know what he'll ultimately report or whether, after the perfervid campaign to discredit him, it will stick to Trump.
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McLean is an adroit alto saxophonist with a perfervid delivery who, despite a distinguished family line, has not enjoyed the kind of sustained critical attention that his peers might tell you he deserves.
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Even on the other tunes, Mr. Willis's bright, dancing accompaniment and perfervid playing in the middle-high register announced a personal style, although he was just 22 years old when it was recorded.
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From the triumph, when he was twenty-nine, of his sculpture "David," he became his own first follower, as an architect of St. Peter's Basilica and the doyen of perfervid Mannerism in painting and sculpture.
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But the Clinton operation was also extraordinarily sordid, in ways that should be thrown into particular relief by the absence of similar scandals in the Obama administration, which had perfervid enemies and circling investigators as well.
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Sometimes unintentionally but too often by political design, he took the presidency's already overlarge role in American life and magnified it further — raising, through his own transformational-bordering-on-messianic political style and reluctant-but-substantial embrace of the imperial presidency, both perfervid fears and unsupportable expectations.
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Mr. Lederer, a tenor saxophonist whose perfervid style owes much to Ayler's influence, has paid tribute to "New Grass" by throwing another esoteric wild card into the mix: On "Heart Love," a new album by his sextet Shakers n' Bakers, Mr. Lederer mingles Ayler's late-career music with hymns from the Shaker tradition.
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The law, signed in 2011, is symptomatic of the perfervid politics of guns in the years since self-defence began ousting hunting as the main rationale for owning them; an era in which gun rights—not just defending them from any restraint, but advancing them in increasingly eccentric ways—have become a preoccupation and litmus test for many Republicans.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads What happens when you cross the perfervid emotionalism of Edna St. Vincent Millay, she of the candle burning at both ends, with Charles Olson's idea, distilled out of William Carlos Williams, of a projective verse imbued with "the breathing of the man who writes" (and I suppose it is very emphatically a man who writes the poetry that Olson had in mind)?
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Often there will be errors in maps, dictionaries, and other publications, that are not deliberate and thus are not fictitious entries. For example, within dictionaries there are such mistakes known as ghost words, "words which have no real existence [...] being mere coinages due to the blunders of printers or scribes, or to the perfervid imaginations of ignorant or blundering editors."W. W. Skeat, The Transactions of the Philological Society 1885-7 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1885-7) Vol. II, p.351.
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In 1891 Léo Taxil (Gabriel Jogand-Pagès) and Adolphe Ricoux claimed to have discovered a Palladian Society.Waite, Arthur Edward The Hermetic Museum 2006 Lulu An 1892 French book Le Diable au XIXe siècle (The Devil in the 19th Century", 1892), written by "Dr. Bataille" (actually Jogand-Pagès himself)Characterised by Waite as "a perfervid narrative issued in penny numbers with absurd illustrations of a highly sensational type; in a word, Le Diable au XIXe Siècle, which is the title given to his memoirs by the present witness, connects in manner and appearance with that class of literature which is known as the "penny dreadful." (Waite, Devil Worship in France, ch.
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Having taken to literature, he went in 1889 to London where he frequented 'Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese' and joined the 'Rhymers' Club'.The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland (2009) Oxford University PressRobert Farquharson Sharp (1904) A Dictionary of English Authors, Biographical and Bibliographical, K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., London Davidson's first published work was Bruce, a chronicle play in the Elizabethan manner, which appeared with a Glasgow imprint in 1886. Four other plays, Smith, a Tragic Farce (1888), An Unhistorical Pastoral (1889), Aromantic Farce (1889), and the brilliant pantomimic Scaramouch in Naxos (1889) were also published while he was in Scotland.Ian Hamilton (1996) The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English, Oxford University Press Besides writing for the Speaker, the Glasgow Herald, and other papers, he produced several novels and tales, of which the best was Perfervid (1890).
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