>I'm in violent agreement with Colin here.
You're not really in "violent agreement" when you're just agreeing with him from the outset.
You're not really in "violent agreement" when you're just agreeing with him from the outset.
I definitely think of the term pretty much exclusively in the sense of (a) here, i.e. extreme, vehement agreement:
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