the limpid, witty, pansophical, profoundly adult writer we know from his stories
on Borges
given for much of his life to dithery romantic obsessions
[...] Except for the ironic-idiom case, the only time it's correct to use all of is when the adj. phrase is folowed by a pronoun--"All of them got cards"; "I wanted Edgar to have all of me"--unless, however, the relevant pronoun is possessive, in which case you must again omit the of, as in "Al…
Fervid is the next level up; it connotes even more passion/devotion/eagerness than fervent. At the top is perfervid, which means extravagantly, rabidly, uncontrollably zealous or impassioned.
it looms large in turgid crap like "Law-enforcement personnel apprehended the individual as he was attempting to exit the premises"
on "individual" being used as a synonym for "person"
