Word: ardentes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Clinton leaves us with no doubt about his intentions, we will be willing to compromise on the method. We understand that ardent and uncompromising radicalism may be an appropriate voice for anti-establishment dissenters, but it is not appropriate for the constituents of a sympathetic president...
...cameras. Our inspiration was the fact that it would be unique to use techniques that are inexpensive and fresh and that no one has really seen in a long time." In fact, the novelty film craze of Victorian England makes its way into the plot of "Dracula," as the ardent vampire pursues Mina through the London cinematograph exhibition. The characters watch images on a screen as we watch them. The film constantly dances around the subject of images--projections on movie screens, shadows which act on their own accord, and a mirror, which Dracula smashes because it doesn't reflect...
Brandt came from humble beginnings. He was born Herbert Frahm in Lubeck in 1913, the son of an unmarried shop clerk, and reared largely by his maternal grandfather, a truck driver, farm laborer and ardent socialist. The grandson took on the grandfather's political colors and, while still in his mid-teens, wrote for Der Volksbote (the People's Messenger), the local Social Democratic Party paper; in 1930, not yet 17, he joined the party. When Adolf Hitler outlawed leftist parties in 1933, Herbert Frahm took the nom de guerre Willy Brandt, a name common in his hometown. Later that...
During his failed 1980 presidential campaign, Bush said unequivocally that he supported a woman's right to an abortion. When he joined the Reagan team, he took on the campaign's position, and he has been a more or less ardent pro-lifer ever since...
...what bothers Carnes' critics is that his legal experience consists chiefly of having been an ardent defender of a system of capital punishment that they say is infected by racial discrimination. Carnes said during his April confirmation hearing that capital punishment was not applied in a racially discriminatory manner "in Alabama or in the nation" -- a view in keeping with the Supreme Court's own rulings, though one study after another has demonstrated that blacks who kill whites are far more likely to be sentenced to death than whites who kill blacks...