fervour

The deep irony of that is that you believe with fervour and passion and faith that people who believe with fervour and passion and faith are stupid.

It's the classic "I think I made it without help so fuck everyone else", plus some missionary fervour, Saint Theresa style: "don't give them free stuff!

Nor is it clear how they could, because as long as you go through all the motions it's hard to check whether you really have all that much religious fervour.

It would be easy to see her benefiting from the inevitable fervour over this loony gunman.

It is also rather distracting in that it makes it hard to take the message for granted as it comes across more like religious fervour than objective thought.

Trolling is posting things for the sole purpose of inciting flamewars, or getting people to believe you were serious and react with disproportionate fervour.

Instead, it makes the sexist, ageist, Puritanical statement that "older men DM'ing younger women on Twitter is 'creepy'" with quasi-religious fervour.

When your fame and occupation is built around the religious fervour that is fandom, I don't think it's outrageous for people to like the idea that a hometown hero can elevate their team to greatness.

Insulting someone therefore consists of creatively stringing together colourful combinations of everyday words, mixing in the odd English, Malaysian or Zulu word, and then spoken with a religious fervour that cracks you up.

The average citizen in the UK no more knew about, supported or condoned a lot of the recently disclosed intelligence-related activities than the average US citizen knew about, supported or condoned the recently disclosed behaviour of the NSA. If anything, I suspect there is a lot more latent resentment of these government behaviours in the UK, because we don't as a rule exhibit the same kind of patriotic fervour that significant parts of the US population do when it comes to military/intelligence matters.

Please tell me the large number of sentences beginning with the word "But" doesn't belie the writer's lack of insight:> But beneath this fervour there is often a world of uncertainty.\n> But many still want to give it another try.\n> But on the whole the startup world, even more than other forms of business, leaves little room for life beyond work.\n> But Mr Rao’s analysis goes deeper.