How To Use Ardor In A Sentence
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Sixteen years later, her ardour hasn't dimmed.
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Senator, his hair bristling out straight, his teeth set, his eye on fire, his whole expression sublimed by the ardor of battle.
The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX
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More significantly governments and politicians have used both the fear factor and the religous ardore as a means of control in every aspect of our lives.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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He increased his feigned ardour for the bushwoman, at the same time increasing the imperiousness of his will of desire over her to be led to look upon the Red One face to face.
THE RED ONE
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The cooler temperatures of the last week should have quelled the amorous residents' ardour and after their recent exertions they should have quite an appetite.
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In the morning a cataphract from Ardor had the audacity to stare at Sire Galan as he marched along.
Wildfire
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To his adherents, these traits multiplied their ardor; to the wider Arab public, they had the effect of a superb baklava served at a diwan—they persuaded a guest to stay long enough to listen to his host.
A Privilege to Die
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I with a maddening sense of awkwardness, that was not much bettered by the tattle of the plainstanes, where merchant lads and others made audible comment on the cousinly ardour of young Lachie.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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Non Aetna, non Vesuvius tantis ardoribus aestuant, ac juveniles medullae vino plenae, addit
Anatomy of Melancholy
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But even though his initial search for glory has destroyed his life, he pursues the monster with the same ardor and passion with which he created him, determined to succeed despite the physical impossibilities.
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Neither protests nor drizzle could dampen their ardour.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ardour of the pilgrims, an old couple, is attested by their stiff limbs and the man's calloused bare feet as they kneel before the apparition of the Madonna at the door of the shrine.
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He threw himself into them with a kind of piratical ardour; took them by the throat, wallowed in them, worried them like a terrier, and finally assimilated them.
South Wind
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But doesn't the freezing cold cool their ardour?
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Even Ligeti himself may not have been aware of the extent to which the impulses behind his motivation for "ardore," the passion for questioning and discovery, for Socratic exetase, as well as for love-making and music-making were identical.
Signandsight.com
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Sixteen years later, her ardour hasn't dimmed.
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He had in his spirit the classical outline of music, with nothing directly revolutionary, no sign of what we call revolt other than the strict adherence to personal relationship, no other prejudice than the artist's reaction against all that is not really refined to art, with but one consuming ardor, and that to render with extreme tranquillity everything delicate and lovely in passing things.
Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
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Fans of the stuff are masonically loyal, prickling with a defensiveness and an ardor that not even Wagnerians can match.
Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Comics
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Vnus suo perpetuo ardore omne corpus sibi immissum raptim conuertit in saxum, manente tamen priore formâ.
A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas
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Verum Seniina funt Ardoris multa, terendo Quae cum confluxere, creant incendia fyivis.
T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex
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I tupped her with no great ardour that night, I can tell you.
Isabelle
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Rigby worked with ardour to suppress trafficking in slaves and his efforts to enforce the 1845 treaty were unremitting.
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-- But however great have been your exertions; however much they have been guided by the precepts of humanity and religion, your public reward has been censure and criticism; but let not such airy weapons damp your ardour for doing good; your _just reward_ is in Heaven, not on earth.
Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800 Read before the Cincinnati Literary Club, November 16, 1872
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It would effectively rouse people's ardour to invest, and help to discourage the transfer of capital abroad.
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Though young when he wrote them, they bespeak a mature understanding of genuine piety - and the way such piety should be evident in all of life, and pursued with ardour and zeal.
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He turned to her, that same passion, desire, ardor, zeal, fire… love in his eyes.
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He had been a painter all his life, but never before had he seen such a vision or painted with such ardor and desire.
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That the Romane legions did make their abode there, no man séene in antiquities can doubt thereof, for the ancient name _Caer leon ardour deuy_, that is, The citie of legions vpon the water of Dée, proueth it sufficientlie enough.
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England
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The ardor of possessing books, commonly called bibliomania, also styled bibliophilism and "biblio" -- whatever else that has suggested itself to the fruitful imaginations of dozens of felicitous writers upon the subject, -- is described by Dibdin as a "disease which grows with our growth, and strengthens with our strength.
Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs
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He gestured to the space between them, as if their ardor were a tangible entity.
Rhapsody In Time
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Stung by his reproach, she counters by reminding him that her lack of ardor is understandable given their night of lovemaking.
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He had first come to this house in a blaze of romantic ardour and passion.
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All this he expressed with that ardour, which is congenial to the simplicity of truth; and with that enthusiasm, which in all instances accompanies recent conviction.
Imogen A Pastoral Romance
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Nothing daunted the ardour of the merchant navy.
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As often as not I went along, for after thirty years of travelling rough I didn't mind being wafted about in style, from steamer stateroom to hotel Pullman, and stopping at the best pubs on the way; another reason was that I didn't trust the little trollop an inch, for Elspeth at fifty was every bit as beddable as she'd been at sixteen, and had lost none of her ardour.
Isabelle
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Latterly, however, the circles which he mostly frequented in Paris had voted strong revolutionary ardour to be mauvais ton; a kind of modulated royalism, or rather Louis
La Vend�e
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But ye wadna wait to hear out my tale, Monkbarns -- she gaed out, and she came in again with the gardener sae sune as she saw that nane o 'ye were clodded ower the Craig, and that Miss Wardour was safe in the chariot; she was hame a quarter of an hour syne, for it's now ganging ten -- sair droukit was she, puir thing, sae I e'en put a glass o' sherry in her water-gruel.
The Antiquary — Volume 01
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Her ardor was a trifle dampened by his voice, but she found new thrills in the gas-stove, a most dramatic instrument to play.
We Can't Have Everything
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They should use bestir mechanism to mobilize high qualification nurses' work ardor , stabilize nursing troop, provide better working situation and surrounding for front line worker.
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Their ardour was a moral ardour, and the lightest breath of scandal never rested upon them, or upon any phase of Transcendentalism.
Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series)
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Hydrophilos, having girded his sable cappa magna as high as to his cherubical loins, at solemn compline sat in his sate of wis-dom, that handbathtub, whereverafter, recreated doctor insularis of the universal church, keeper of the door of meditation, memory extempore proposing and intellect formally considering, recluse, he meditated continuously with seraphic ardour the primal sacra-ment of baptism or the regeneration of all man by affusion of water.
Finnegans Wake
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This one might therefore di - minish the male actor's ardor.
Here There Are Monsters
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In consequence they hoped for fellowship with others in the cause with particular ardour.
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Miss Wardour was safe in the chariot; she was hame a quarter of an hour syne, for it's now ganging ten --- sair droukit was she, puir thing, sae I e'en put a glass o 'sherry in her water-gruel.' '
The Antiquary
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It is possible, my friend, that your ardour is a little compromising.
Little Dorrit
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The delusion gave a new impulse to his ardour; and no professor of the saltant art ever applied himself with greater industry, than the naturalist now used his heels on the ribs of Asinus.
The Prairie
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Having a taste for "ghastliness," I had rather longed for the wounded to arrive, for rheumatism was n't heroic, neither was liver complaint, or measles; even fever had lost its charms since "bathing burning brows" had been used up in romances, real and ideal; but when I peeped into the dusky street lined with what I at first had innocently called market carts, now unloading their sad freight at our door, I recalled sundry reminiscences I had heard from nurses of longer standing, my ardor experienced a
Hospital Sketches
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Why is it that they bestow their ardour upon the well-adjusted, wholesome architects of pop's fatal new maturity?
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Rigby worked with ardour to suppress trafficking in slaves and his efforts to enforce the 1845 treaty were unremitting.
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Hahn's musical personality unites two contrary impulses: youthful ardor and a patrician elegance.
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Omissa spe victoriae in destinatam mortem conspirant, tantusque ardor singulos cepit, ut victores se putarent si non inulti morerentur.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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At last, having undertaken to reduce their towns by force, amid the great ardour of the soldiers, and their resentment for the wounds which they had received, (hardly one of them having come out of the battle unhurt,) he took Cutina by scalade, and afterwards
The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08
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The Chactaws no sooner espied the enemy's fort, than they rent the air with their death-cries, and instantly flew to the fort: but their ardour flagged at a carabin-shot from the place.
History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing
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But doesn't the freezing cold cool their ardour?
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Henceforth, my dearest dear Miss Byron, said he, the moment he approached me (as I stood up to re-ceive him) I salute you undoubtedly mine And he saluted me with ardor I knew not which way to look So polite a lover, as 1 thought him!
Sir Charles Grandison
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He threw himself into his studies with an ardour scarcely credible — devoting twelve hours a day to Hindustani, and outwearying two munshis.
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
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Squirrels, too, whose spicy ardor no heat or cold may abate, were nutting among the pines, and the innumerable hosts of the insect kingdom were throbbing and wavering unwearied as sunbeams.
John Muir
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This dearth of scientific evidence has done nothing to dampen the abolitionist ardour of the anti-DDT movement.
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And then came the recitation - in rounded syllables and in the utterly devastating rhythms of Sanskrit when it is pronounced with ritualised ardour.
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But it was when she retired that her ardour for history emerged, she joined the Richmond Society and began working as a steward at Ham House.
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It conveys that ardour through an energetic, loquacious style of moviemaking that can afford to meander a little.
Times, Sunday Times
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So she had, perforce, to submit to his taking off her dressing-gown, and the glowing ardour and admiration in his dark eyes when she stood before him clad only in her filmy, sleeveless "nightie" brought the hot colour flooding back to her fair face again.
Bandit Love
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In both, they seem to compete with us, and in ardor and activity they even surpass most of our savans.
Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz
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Something debonnaire; which need not be separated from that awe and reverence, when they address a woman, which should shew the ardour of their passion, rather than the sheepishness of their nature; for who knows not that love delights in taming the lion-hearted?
Clarissa Harlowe
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prophesyings" with all the healthy ardour of prejudice.
Come Rack! Come Rope!
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These books deserve to be lauded with as much ardour as the athletes who inspire them.
Times, Sunday Times
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The reverse tope is simply where a couple of volunteers dig a trench in the road, side to side, to curb the ardour of the nascent psychopath.
Free riding the roads of Mexico
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Woolsack with the ardour, or rather steadiness, which is requisite in gentlemen who would climb to those seats of honour.
The History of Pendennis
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If he could only have been sure of her moral exemption from taint, a generous ardour, in reserve behind his anxious dubieties, would have precipitated Dudley to quench disapprobation and brave the world under a buckler of those monetary advantages, which he had but stoutly to plead with the House of
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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The playing encompassed subtlety, ardor, menace and rage, all with an admirable polish.
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The study of medicine, combined with the ardor of youthful revolt and the seductions of a new bohemian life, had so sensualized the mind of Schiller that, for a brief period in his career, he found pleasure in exploiting the indecent.
The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
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How nice for him that he can play note perfectly, even if it is at the expense of fantasy, passion, ardor, elegance, whimsy, fire and intensity.
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Personally I yearn for table-cut diamonds, serious stones sawn in half so they have no facets; they don't sparkle or shine, just glow with a restrained, secret cool ardour.
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Naturally, her coolness served only to intensify his ardour, but it was two years before she capitulated.
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On all such occasions, Mr. Grimwig plants, fishes, and carpenters, with great ardour; doing everything in a very singular and unprecedented manner, but always maintaining with his favourite asseveration, that his mode is the right one.
Oliver Twist
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Naturally, her coolness served only to intensify his ardour, but it was two years before she capitulated.
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Successful match organization can make audiences'behavior elegant and watching match with ardour, vice versa.
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In human love, as St. Thomas teaches (I: 27: 3), even though the object be external to us, yet the immanent act of love arouses in the soul a state of ardour which is, as it were, an impression of the thing loved.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
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Character for him must lie in those very qualities which are now chiefly responsible for his defects -- his ardour, his affectibility, his vehemence, his impetuous rashness, his unquestioned courage.
The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster
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After a minute, faking fluster and fanning down her ardour, the lady managed a ‘Monsieur!’
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But what you deny fruitlessly is the active part you took in the conflict that ensued between the patriots and the satellites of tyranny; it is your zeal and ardour in serving the enemies of the people, in supplying them with cartridges, which you took pains to bite, because they were directed against patriots and intended to mow them down; it is the desire you have publicly expressed that victory should belong to the power and partisans of your brother, and the encouragement of all kinds which you have given to the murderers of your country.
The Ruin of a Princess
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You can taste the romance and refinement of European classicalism, the luxury and generosity of American pragmatism, the tenderness and delicacy of the Orient and the ardor of the tropical islands.
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He threw himself into his studies with an ardour scarcely credible -- devoting twelve hours a day to Hindustani, and outwearying two munshis.
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
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And then came the recitation - in rounded syllables and in the utterly devastating rhythms of Sanskrit when it is pronounced with ritualised ardour.
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As candeo candor, ardeo ardor, sowe are to understandsordeo sordor.
Formations.
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Indeed, as Ammianus Marcellinus, referring to the Arabs, says: “Incredible est quo ardore apud eos in venerem uterque solvitur sexus.”
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
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His sense of rhythmic freedom, elasticity of phrasing, romantic ardor, and caressing tonal hues set a new standard for the four Chopin Ballades.
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He threw himself into his studies with an ardour scarcely credible ” devoting twelve hours a day to Hindustani, and outwearying two munshis.
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
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There is certainly but one place in all New York where the stricken deer may weep -- or even, for that matter, the hart ungalled play; the wonder of my coincidence shrank a little, that is, before the fact that when young ardor or young despair wishes to commune with immensity it can ONLY do so either in a hall bedroom or in just this corner, practically, where
The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors
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Clara supposed that she only felt confusion because Will had seemed to be as incapable of true love and ardor as herself.
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Mystery and gloom, dark blue and starshine, doubt and feebleness alternate with the clear and shining, opal skies and sunglow, heroic ardor and the exultation of power.
AE in the Irish Theosophist
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The privileges of a college were to be obtained, with the power of conferring the same degrees upon female students, as upon males -- forgetting, in their ardor, that the constitution of _female_
Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman
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But he was inspired by the enthusiasm of a man who feels with extreme ardor, and when he was met by the partly ironical dilettanteism of Dorsenne he was almost pained by it, so much the more so as the author and he had some common theories, notably an extreme fancy for heredity and race.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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In an early big scene in that novel, Sir Arthur Wardour and his daughter Isabella are trapped between the onrushing tide and unscaleable cliffs.
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Latterly, however, the circles which he mostly frequented in Paris had voted strong revolutionary ardour to be mauvais ton; a kind of modulated royalism, or rather Louis Seizeism, had become fashionable; and Adolphe
La Vendée
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He has followed trails, consulted the experts and lived and breathed the historical roots of ancient Americans with ardour for 20 years.
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[1227] In a word, Nihil magis quaerunt quam metum et admirationem hominum; [1228] and as another hath it, Dici non potest, quam impotenti ardore in homines dominium, et Divinos cultus maligni spiritus affectent.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Egremont's perishable love, her own prudential forecasts and schemings, were stamped poor, worldly, ignoble, in comparison with this sacred and extinguishable ardour.
Thyrza
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The vast spaces inspire expectancy and ardour and idealism.
Times, Sunday Times
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These visits enkindled in his beautiful soul such flames of Divine love that their ardour imparted itself even to his body and took from the snow on which he walked its wonted cold; for it is related that the servant who accompanied him in these nightly excursions, having to walk through the snow, suffered much from the cold.
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He pulled her into his arms and kissed her with a feverous ardor that he had been longing to express every single moment that they were apart.
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In contrast to the objects associated with the Pannonic burials attributed to the gens Langobardorum, as well as older Italian evidence, these were remarkable for their militaristic nature.
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His revolutionary ardour was an example to his followers.
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It crushed them into the remotest recesses of their own minds, pressing out of them, like juices from the grape, all the false ardors and exaltations and undue self-values of the human soul, until they perceived themselves finite and small, specks and motes, moving with weak cunning and little wisdom amidst the play and inter-play of the great blind elements and forces. 4
Le Milieu, Le Moment, La Race: Literary Naturalism in Jack London's White Fang
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Clara supposed that she only felt confusion because Will had seemed to be as incapable of true love and ardor as herself.
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It is possible that the ardor of foreign migration is more selective of hardy biological stock.
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I’ve let her try, but her ardour is somewhat disconcerting.
Bank Of VaJayJay | Her Bad Mother
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Of the enemy ten thousand were slain: on our part three hundred and sixty fell; among whom was Aulus Atticus, the praefect of a cohort, who, by his juvenile ardor, and the fire of his horse, was borne into the midst of the enemy.
The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus
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Such an ardour possessed the men for the fight that in some it reached the pitch of fear lest they should arrive too late upon the battlefield and receive only a barless medal.
The Story of the "9th King's" in France
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The playing encompassed subtlety, ardor, menace and rage, all with an admirable polish.
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Any kind of cognizance of an indescribable excess in the joy of the bath, any kind of ardour or thirst which perpetually impels the soul out of night into the morning, and out of gloom, out of "affliction" into clearness, brightness, depth, and refinement: -- just as much as such a tendency DISTINGUISHES -- it is a noble tendency -- it also
Beyond Good and Evil
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His revolutionary ardour was an example to his followers.
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She displayed great ardor for art.
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The soul is struck with the ardour of a fever, overwhelmed with an epilepsy, and displaced by a sharp megrim, and, in short, astounded by all the diseases that hurt the whole mass and the most noble parts; this never meddles with the soul; if anything goes amiss with her, 'tis her own fault; she betrays, dismounts, and abandons herself.
The Essays of Montaigne — Complete
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They should use bestir mechanism to mobilize high qualification nurses' work ardor , stabilize nursing troop, provide better working situation and surrounding for front line worker.
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He turned to her, that same passion, desire, ardor, zeal, fire… love in his eyes.
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Their incorrectness and absurdity soon became apparent; and with a zeal, perhaps, bordering on indiscretion, he denounced them to his pupils with an ardour of manner and of expression proportioned to his own conviction of the truth.
The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler
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Death’s ardor is returned by a young woman who must decide, as the end of his stay nears, whether love is stronger than death.
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His outward hopes were blasted, and he returned with concentrated ardour to woo the muse, from whom he had so long truanted.
Milton
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The vast spaces inspire expectancy and ardour and idealism.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ænone could not follow him; and step by step, in the ardor of criticism, he advanced so far that he was soon ready to prove that the campaign had been most wofully misconducted, and was only indebted to accident for success.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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The ardour of the pilgrims, an old couple, is attested by their stiff limbs and the man's calloused bare feet as they kneel before the apparition of the Madonna at the door of the shrine.
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It peeked beyond the brushes of the thorns that surrounded the dark enchanted lands of Ardor.
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It matters little whether such intervention occurs avowedly or through action that in - evitably tends to check the ardor and fearlessness of scholars, qualities at once so fragile and so indispensable for fruitful academic labor
ACADEMIC FREEDOM
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Though young when he wrote them, they bespeak a mature understanding of genuine piety - and the way such piety should be evident in all of life, and pursued with ardour and zeal.
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If he could only have been sure of her moral exemption from taint, a generous ardour, in reserve behind his anxious dubieties, would have precipitated
One of Our Conquerors — Complete
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Firm action by the army dampened the revolutionary ardour of the mob and restored order in the streets.
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One such grape variety is muscat, which with typical Mediterranean ardour makes up a large, colourful, diverse family that has the capacity to make all sorts of wines.
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-- Amadis, I mean? "he asked, his blue eyes sparkling with a kind of mirthful ardour.
Innocent : her fancy and his fact
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Such evidences of his unceasing ardour, both for ‘divine and human lore,’ when advanced into his sixty-fifth year, and notwithstanding his many disturbances from disease, must make us at once honour his spirit, and lament that it should be so grievously clogged by its material tegument.
The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.
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These books deserve to be lauded with as much ardour as the athletes who inspire them.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jerome is a, more learned exegetist, better equipped in respect of Scriptural erudition; he is even purer in his style; but, despite his impetuous ardour, he is less animated, less striking, than his correspondent of Hippo.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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Upon the narrow stony strip of comparatively level ground the sun's rays fell with concentrated ardour, and along it was a brilliant bloom of late summer flowers -- of camomile, St. John's wort, purple loosestrife, hemp-agrimony and lamium.
Two Summers in Guyenne
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It would effectively rouse people's ardour to invest, and help to discourage the transfer of capital abroad.
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Yet by the simple instincts of a soul undebased by self-indulgence or low pursuits, he was drawn ever toward things lofty and good; and life went calmly on, bearing Godfrey Wardour toward middle age, unruffled either by anxiety or ambition.
Mary Marston
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A roasted-pear napoleon, lemon-raspberry gratin, and chocolate-brioche pudding will restore ardor.
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It is as if he lives on an island of inward-looking spirituality where excitement and ardour are shelved, and where loneliness is a background against which self-cultivation can progress.
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Twice, he got to Nicosia and could hardly respond to the ardour he found in Primaflora.
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All their harp-jangling is to me so much coughing and puffing of phantoms; what have they ever known of the ardour of tones!
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Perhaps we have had too little of the Spirit's fullness to enable us to love with the personal ardor Jesus desires.
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There to lend a sympathetic ear - when she's not busy piercing it herself with alarming sangfroid - is roomie Rebecca Meester, a troubled little rich girl who latches on to Sara with the carefully calibrated ardor of a well-seasoned stalker.
'Roommate' movie review: Don't move in with Leighton Meester
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And I think the ardour of all the ladies and gentlemen is an inornate and pure civic consciousness which could present a petition in order to help people. This is the precious treasure of the spirit.
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Time and bait are both lost in the vain attempt: patiently he rebaits, until he finds the rebait brings his box of gentles to a discount; and then, in no gentle humour, with a baitless hook, and abated ardor, he winds up his line and his day's amusement (?) -- and departs, with the determination of trying fortune (who has tried him) on some, future and more propitious day.
Sketches — Complete
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Their ardor is their crown, before which the languid and the passive bow.
Pushing to the Front
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My ardour totally dampened as I remembered the warnings of that day's front page.
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He had been a painter all his life, but never before had he seen such a vision or painted with such ardor and desire.
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To judge, however, by the ardor with which he worked, he was engaged in some one of those schemes that are termed follies before success, but which, after success, are universally acknowledged to be brilliant and praiseworthy instances of industrial enterprise.
Willis the Pilot
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It crushed them into the remotest recesses of their own minds, pressing out of them, like juices from the grape, all the false ardours and exaltations and undue self-values of the human soul, until they perceived themselves finite and small, specks and motes, moving with weak cunning and little wisdom amidst the play and inter-play of the great blind elements and forces.
The Trail of Meat
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As the Governess, Elizabeth Atherton sang with restless ardour, in unbearable thrall to her charges and locked into her own battle between reality and the wispy figments of a love-starved imagination.
The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les pêcheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida
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And yet I have known some who have secured themselves for this misfortune by coming half-sated elsewhere, purposely to abate the ardour of their fury, and others who being grown old, find themselves less impotent by being less able; and particularly one who found an advantage by being assured by a friend of his that had a countercharm against certain enchantments that would defend him from this disgrace.
Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction
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He made Jerry Lee Lewis's panting musical rants of wolf-calling ardor look like a Sunday Comics installment of January Jones.
Big Bopper Update
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The central pas de deux is a grand display of lush ardour and glittering presentation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Triumph is firmly certain now that conviction has been ascertained within the souls, minds, and ardors.
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Philanthropic ardour, which is generally the characteristic mark of all the members of the assotiation, that you yet sympathise with us, in our adversity, and rejoice in our prosperity.
Letter from F. W. Harrison to Thomas Jones, April 10, 1824
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He has followed trails, consulted the experts and lived and breathed the historical roots of ancient Americans with ardour for 20 years.
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His political ardor led him into many arguments.
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Her unresponsiveness failed to cool his ardour.
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He listened gravely and spoke in measured tones, but still fired with habitual martial ardour.
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My ardour has cooled somewhat since I was fourteen.
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Love, lust and passion, ardour, hate and jealousy combine to make Othello one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies.
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Joan united ‘to her maidenly virtues the martial courage and ardor of the noblest knights of chivalry,’ the author argued.
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It crushed them into the remotest recesses of their own minds, pressing out of them, like juices from the grape, all the false ardours and exaltations and undue self-values of the human soul, until they perceived themselves finite and small, specks and motes, moving with weak cunning and little wisdom amidst the play and inter-play of the great blind elements and forces.
The Trail of Meat
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Love, lust and passion, ardour, hate and jealousy combine to make Othello one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies.
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This ludicrously overrated copycat director gives a nonperformance to temper the ardor of his most slavish fans.
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The seeds of my ardor were the sparks from that divine flame whereby more than a thousand have kindled; I speak of the
My Ántonia
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they were imbued with a revolutionary ardor
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Firm action by the army dampened the revolutionary ardour of the mob and restored order in the streets.
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Mistaking it for swelling ardour, he cants his hips in just the wrong way again.
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Then the fingers at the ends of those long, thin, untanned arms attacking the piano with the furiously proficient ardor of a Rubinstein or a Rubirosa.
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The new ardor which burns in his breast consumes in its glow the lower "noes" which formerly beset him, and keeps him immune against infection from the entire groveling portion of his nature.
The Varieties of Religious Experience
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Our troops, too, had all the ardour which is added even to the boldest by the assurance of victory.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844
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When we are alone, we are not always busy; the labour of excogitation is too violent to last long; the ardour of inquiry will sometimes give way to idleness or satiety.
A History of English Prose Fiction
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The seeds of my ardour were the sparks from that divine flame whereby more than a thousand have kindled; I speak of the "Aeneid," mother to me and nurse to me in poetry. '
My Antonia
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[1501] Pliny (ii. 103, 104) writes: "Itaque solis ardore siccatur liquor; ... sic mari late patenti saporem incoqui salis, aut quia exhausto inde dulci tenuique, quod facillime, trahat vis ignea, omne asperius crassiusque linquatur: ideo summa aequarum aqua dulciorem profundam: hanc esse veriorem causam asperi saporis, quam quod mare terrae sudor sit aeternus: aut quia plurimum ex arido misceatur illi vapore, aut quia terrae natura sicut medicatas aquas inficiat.
NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
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Agrippa had been entirely exploded, and that a modern system of science had been introduced, which possessed much greater powers than the ancient, because the powers of the latter were chimerical, while those of the former were real and practical; under such circumstances, I should certainly have thrown Agrippa aside, and have contented my imagination, warmed as it was, by returning with greater ardour to my former studies.
Chapter 2
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Then this grey life, so long sole and intrinsical to itself, should glow at last with some reflection of the sunset; once more I should know young ardours imagined lost and devotions miraculously born again.
Apologia Diffidentis
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The recruit's ardor for the assignment instantly paled.
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The ardour of this response leaves no doubt about Shearer's fidelity to Newcastle, where he thought a chance had come to repeat his triumphs as a classic Geordie/English centre-forward.
From the TV sofa to the dugout: Alan Shearer plots grand return
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In the mean time, I have been indulging a hope, which at moments has appeared almost a certainty, that Clifton, by our mutual efforts, shall acquire all this true ardour, which is so lovely in Frank.
Anna St. Ives
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It's a potentially back-firing gamble just as the hillsides and valleys are scorching with sporting ardour.
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He had first come to this house in a blaze of romantic ardour and passion.
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Arnold himself had little use for philosophy—or any of the humanities—as tending to ungainful employment, but he had a martial ardor which fitted him for the art of war.
Angel in the Whirlwind
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He listened gravely and spoke in measured tones, but still fired with habitual martial ardour.
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Many a woman has experienced a lover's ardor giving way to chilling remoteness once she has given herself to him sexually.
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My ardour totally dampened as I remembered the warnings of that day's front page.
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He articulates internationalism with an ardor that was notably wobbly when he was in the White House.
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My ardour has cooled somewhat since I was fourteen.
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He showed that none of that class has either depth, ardor, or sincerity; that, their intellectual culture being slight and their erudition a simple varnish, they must remain, in short, manikins who produce the effect and make the gesture of the enlightened beings that they are not.
Strong as Death
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Nettarion, Phabion, for the darlingness"; and for all her intellect and ardour, it is greatly _this_ that makes Balaustion queen -- the lovely eager sweetness, the tenderness, the "darlingness": Aristophanes guessed almost right!
Browning's Heroines
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The torrents of Maine are hasty young heroes, galloping so hard when they gallop, and charging with such rash enthusiasm when they charge, hurrying with such Achillean ardor toward their eternity of ocean, that they would never know the influence, in their heart of hearts, of blue cloudlessness, or the glory of noonday, or the pageantries of sunset, -- they would only tear and rive and shatter carelessly.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862
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What sets this team apart, meant their ardour has not gone unrequited, is their intelligence.
Times, Sunday Times
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Omissa spe victoriae in destinatam mortem conspirant, tantusque ardor singulos cepit, ut victores se putarent si non inulti morerentur.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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he spoke with great ardor
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Perhaps we have had too little of the Spirit's fullness to enable us to love with the personal ardor Jesus desires.
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At times, however, the ardour with which Matthias supported learning slackened, thus he did not give his aid to the universities already existing at Pécs (Fünfkirchen) and Pozsony (Presburg), so that later they had to be closed.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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How nice for him that he can play note perfectly, even if it is at the expense of fantasy, passion, ardor, elegance, whimsy, fire and intensity.
