vehemence

How To Use vehemence In A Sentence

• His violent menaces had extorted his readmission into the church, against which Cyprian protests with much vehemence: ne pecuniae commissae sibi fraudator, ne stuprator virginum, ne matrimoniorum multorum depopulator et corruptor, ultra adhuc sponsam Christi incorruptam praesentiae suae dedecore, et impudica atque incesta contagione, violaret. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1
• My faith, the very name begets a towering conceit wherever it goes," he answered, and he brought his stick down on the floor with such vehemence that the emerald and ruby rings rattled on his shrunken fingers. The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
• I begin to wonder about your vehemence, have you ever heard the term ego-dystonic homosexuality? On Same-Sex Couples and Catfish Derbies
• Whilst the textbook controversy could be seen as simply a repetition of previous incidents, the events of April are significant because of the scale and vehemence of the protests.
• The film places them in a situation where they are attacked with relentless vehemence by a faceless enemy they know very little of.
• These advantages were defended with corresponding vehemence, and less by the pen than by action.
• She argued with such vehemence against the proposal that they decided to abandon it.
• The vehemence of these convictions was matched by the fervor of his antifascism. Devil Dog
• This year we witnessed the unfortunate political vehemence and fury surrounding allowing a patient to die a natural death when she had been in a persistent vegetative state for 15 years after an unwitnessed cardiac arrest.
• He was conspicuous among the young men of his standing for the forwardness with which he took his side against "Tractarianism," and the vehemence of his dislike of it, and for the almost ostentatious and defiant prominence which he gave to the convictions and social habits of his school He expressed his scorn and disgust at the "donnishness," the coldness, the routine, the want of heart, which was all that he could see at Oxford out of the one small circle of his friends. Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890