What is "furor"

Usage examples of "furor".

The auriferous tooth, the sedentary disposition, the Sunday afternoon wanderlust, the draught upon the delicatessen store for home-made comforts, the furor for department store marked-down sales, the feeling of superiority to the lady in the third-floor front who wore genuine ostrich tips and had two names over her bell, the mucilaginous hours during which she remained glued to the window sill, the vigilant avoidance of the instalment man, the tireless patronage of the acoustics of the dumb-waiter shaft - all the attributes of the Gotham flat-dweller were hers.

DAW: The disease in Greek is called mania, in Latin insania, furor, vel ecstasis melancholica, that is, egressio, when a man ex melancholico evadit fanaticus.

Pinwheeling before his eyes, Tythe was a kaleidoscopic furor of white and brown, smeared occasionally with striations of blue-green.

Fleming and Hees had no idea of the furor they had caused in Canada, until they landed in Rome the day after the Accra conference.

The air service boys could not remain quietly at the villa while all that furor was going on They wished to be at the hangars, to greet those who returned, and give the pilots who were sallying forth a last word of encouragement.

It would just be an asteroid to him, not too far from Ceres, as good as any other, and he would make a beeline for it in order to wait for the furor on Ceres to die down.

One man, later found to have a scarred temporal lobe in association with hemangioma, killed his wife while in a state of epileptic furor.

As with virtually all Clinton scandals, the furor over The Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce evaporated quickly.

Killing the Wahhabi leadership would send much of the country into a furor.

Appius Claudius created a furor while he kicked his heels in Antioch waiting for Tigranes to give him an audience.

In what cave or darknesse shall I hide my selfe, to avoid the furor of Venus?

Despite the malicious attacks on him, the furor over the Alien and Sedition Acts, unpopular taxes, betrayals by his own cabinet, the disarray of the Federalists, and the final treachery of Hamilton, he had, in fact, come very close to winning in the electoral count.

Refugee ships would be good - the furor over the hostages at Talfaglio had proven how vulnerable to such techniques the New Republic really was.

This tendency - by both publishers and libraries - to inadequately and inappropriately pour old wine into new vessels is what caused the recent furor over e-books.

Something in his prisoner's voice brought him up sharply, but Cerin, for all the furor of his thoughts, kept a bland expression on his face.