fever pitch

By the end of May 1978, the nation was at fever pitch.

He also always brought the crowd to a fever pitch.

"You're not going to get people into a fever pitch."

What he had to tell me brought my excitement to fever pitch.

"I have never seen a population rise to such a fever pitch!"

"The call for reform has now reached a fever pitch."

By yesterday, things had reached something of a fever pitch.

Within about 30 minutes, I was at such a fever pitch that almost any touch made me come.

The new information raised their hopes to a fever pitch.

He didn't want to get them at a fever pitch too early.

Just as he reached a fever pitch of rage, though, something happened.

And as they did, their excitement reached a fever pitch.

During the rescue, things around them reach a fever pitch.

The frenzy may end or reach a fever pitch today.

Last week the sense of desperation reached a fever pitch.

The crowd was getting to a fever pitch of excitement, Will among them.

Being so near Jeff and alone with him was bringing my blood to a fever pitch!

Three years training to a fever pitch of readiness lay behind him.

The level of conversation in the room soared to a fever pitch.

The violence and shouting around him had reached a fever pitch.

They say threatening things intended to create a fever pitch.

They manipulate their audience, build them to a fever pitch.

It was barely 8:30 in the morning, and already the debate over Iraq had hit fever pitch.

The tension of the last few weeks had risen to fever pitch.

The war reaches a fever pitch, and the black children look beaten.