Despite being in his youth during World War I, Landauer's fierce patriotism compelled him to join the Bavarian Defense Organization as a cadet.

Residents are also known for their fierce patriotism and localisation, preferring for the most part to stay within city limits for work, education, and residence.

It also taught him a fierce patriotism.

Their fierce civic patriotism is as unexpected as the flowers that improbably abound even in squalid slums.

I remembered the fierce patriotism, the way people cared about one another, and the anxiety.

She scowled with all the fierce patriotism of a first-generation american, looked round the table, and gave us all the impartial benefit of her scowl.

This variety in the highest thing is the meaning of the fierce patriotism, the fierce nationalism of the great European civilization.

Yet it wasn't his own fierce patriotism that refused to let him capitulate.

But each village has a fierce patriotism.

Intense Competitiveness One legacy of these years is the fierce, almost defensive patriotism and the intense competitiveness with "advanced" nations.