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furore
/ fjʊˈrɔːrɪ; ˈfjʊərɔː /
noun
- a public outburst, esp of protest; uproar
- a sudden widespread enthusiasm for something; craze
- frenzy; rage; madness
Word History and Origins
Origin of furore1
Example Sentences
Which is why I was surprised at the media furore over the latest health findings.
After all the furore about his pool parties lately, you couldn't have blamed Prince Harry if he'd missed the paralympic swimming.
But if she breaks her silence and says anything at all about the furore, it could take on a more serious hue.
The furore which the steam-engine has excited and so long maintained in the mechanical world is decidedly abating.
The reporters recording his decisions put down "Twysden in furore," thinly veiling the judicial wrath in modest Latin.
His tirades were not a furore of denunciation so much as they were the impulsive chafing of the creative energy within him.
And now came the storm, springing from a misunderstanding pitifully out of proportion to the furore it excited!
Her Azucena was a fine performance; and she created a tremendous furore with La Paloma, which was then a novelty.
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