Word: perfervid
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...Lord of the Rings is often pokey and perfervid. But it provides a kind of joy, and will do so as long as men read and Hobbits live in holes...
Never has Oxford Philosopher Murdoch staged more perfervid rituals, or composed more coolly brilliant commentaries upon them, than in The Black Prince. As usual, the master spell is love. The book's narrator is a 58-year-old failed writer named Bradley Pearson. Grinding his teeth in silence, Bradley has been waiting for the moment of absolute inspiration. Nothing less will do. His cursed Doppelgdnger, his best friend, is Arnold Baffin, a fluent hack who turns out popular novels with religious overtones while Bradley grubs away in a tax inspector's office. Freedom is the cruel lure...
...take a serious turn - a rather abrupt one, to be sure, but audacious and very nearly successful. King becomes a prisoner of his own fantasies, crippled when the most lurid creations of his fiction become real and dangerous. His single defense is to wall himself up inside his own perfervid imagination, to distance reality until it becomes remote and unthreatening...
GREASER'S PALACE. Perfervid madness by Robert Downey, an unlikely but hilarious combination of the old West and the New Testament...
James Mills' first novel is about that kind of woman and that kind of world. Mills has written some remarkable articles about detective and police work. But he is best known for A Panic in Needle Park, a perfervid account of drug addicts that became an Al Pacino movie. His next book, The Prosecutor, was an example of what Mills does as well as anyone writing now: hard, dogged, angry reporting about the morally hopeless entanglements of big-city justice. The prosecutor of the title was an overworked D.A. trying to get a Mafia conviction and discovering every sinew...