Word: ardent
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Fish plays off the youthful enthusiasm and integrity of both Andrew Burlinson, as the spring chicken Master Knight, and Matthew Strack, as the starry-eyed peasant. Strack carries off the difficult role of infatuated youth and ardent revolutionary, whispering sweet but wholesome nothings into his love-muffin's ear at one moment, rousing the masses to glorious martyrdom in defense of liberty and justice the next...
...centuries ago, Thomas Jefferson expressed the view that blacks were innately incapable of writing poetry because "their love is ardent, but it kindles the senses only, not the imagination." He dismissed the work of Phillis Wheatley, the first African-American female poet, as "below the dignity of criticism." There is no evidence that the sage of Monticello had actually read Wheatley's poems before issuing his put-down. In fact, he misspelled her name...
Although inclement weather may have deterred many voters, more ardent supporters did not miss the opportunity to endorse the candidates for whom they have been lobbying all summer. Education, crime and job creation were at the forefront of theissues which most concerned candidates and voters...
Left means right. (In places like the former Soviet Union, the "rightists" are the conservatives, who are most attached to communism -- in other words, the people furthest on the left. This is not to be confused with the situation in China, where the Communists are the most ardent capitalists around...
Moving to San Francisco in the early '80s, Isaak formed a band and started playing in Bay Area clubs, eventually attracting an ardent following that included Bruce Springsteen and Rickie Lee Jones. Another early fan was director Jonathan Demme, who cast Isaak in cameo bits in his films Married to the Mob (Remember the fast-food clown who tried to rub out Tony the Tiger?) and Silence of the Lambs (as a SWAT team member). He had a few lines of dialogue in David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, but his biggest break came last year, when...