Ardency

No, this time it will be brought down by the misguided ardency of its champions. ❋ Ariel Gonzalez (2011)

Sooner or later, we all get there and the rewards are that patience, observation, and experience yield more subtle and textured pleasures than the ardency and impatience of our younger years. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"The better to share you with," she will eventually declare, before not eating them whole but tasting their specific Coop and March delicacies with equal ardency. ❋ Kim Morgan (2011)

The crowd, the gayety, the excitement, the closeness and tenderness of contact in the dancing, the summer-warm of the evening, the streaming moonlight, and the night-scents of flowers — ­all fanned her ardency, and she looked forward eagerly to the at least one more dance she might dare with Graham. ❋ Unknown (2010)

That the young musician loved her with an ardency that was almost painful, was patent to Graham; but what hurt him was the abandon of devotion with which she sometimes looked at Ware after he had done something exceptionally fine. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Princess, all but melted to my yearning, and with her laughter, that was as silver strings by buds and blossoms smitten, all but made lunacy of my lover's ardency. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If one day Hong Kong's opera house rivals the Met in the quality of its performances and ardency of its fans, it may be down to Mr. Scofield's evangelism. ❋ Gerrie Lim (2010)

In Congress and the Senate, many formerly reasonable Republicans are now singing from the Tea Party hymn sheet for fear that insufficient ardency in support of the group's pet causes will lose them their seats come November. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In its religious ardency, it was prepared for apocalyptic battle. ❋ DANIEL OKRENT (2010)

Violetta's fioritura, Alfredo's tenor ardency, his father's baritonal sterness, the tripping flute thirds of the perennial parties and balls: all those familiar elements start to play off of each other, turning up at inappropriate moments with an ironic charge, standing in for dialogue and plot rather than simply advancing them. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2008)

Lastly, and I'm wincing in anticipation of thrown vegetables for revealing my, hmm, teenage ardency for bad, bad escapism, is Magic Kingdom for Sale -- Sold! by Terry Brooks: ❋ Pabba (2008)

Although she is a bright and resourceful woman, there is a shamefulness in her lack of ethics -- a feminist, a womanist, and a humanist is forced to discount her ardency and tenacity because of her lack of ethics. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You will look demure, except your right eye is to have a tiny glint of ardency. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)

The limner had made me appear beautiful, modest, prideful, with ardency in one eye. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)