Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that the primaries this year are a battle for the heart and soul of the party, what he's likely to find is a detectable pulse in several far-separated points on the ideological spectrum. Is there a way to mix contented executives with angry workers? And to mix ardent pro-lifers with libertarians? If there is, none of the G.O.P. candidates are sure yet what it might be. "The way they've been going at each other, they've got me all screwed up, and I'm not sure if they haven't done the same to the whole...
...another way, if you were a happily acknowledged anti-Semite, you might not have a record so different from Buchanan's accumulated words and positions. As New York's Mayor Giuliani last week complained, Buchanan was an ardent defender of Karl Linnas, the convicted Nazi war criminal, even trying to stop his 1987 deportation from New York to the Soviet Union. His tireless defense of accused Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk was partly justified. There's substantial evidence that Demjanjuk was not the Butcher of Treblinka he was accused of being in an Israeli court. But he was indisputably...
...vainly thrashing around in his last strongholds--the Bible Belt and the isolated pockets of the country where fundamentalism and fanaticism still rear their low brow heads. At campaign rallies, prayer breakfasts and fund raising dinners, he will constantly draw attention to his gnarled fist, until even his most ardent supporters desert him, disgusted by his shameless antics...
...Restic's day, such ardent recruiting was virtually unknown...
Nabokov liked to shock as well as enchant. A biology professor who suspects his wife of adultery frightens her to death by putting a skeleton in her bed. There is a boyish cruelty similar to Alfred Hitchcock's in many of Nabokov's mock-gothic tales. He was an ardent hunter of clichas and kitsch, and a mischievous parodist of traditional literary forms. The familiar 1952 story Lance sends up science fiction whose "Star tsars, directors of Galactic Unions, are practically replicas of those peppy, red-haired executives in earthy earth jobs." The little-known 1924 tale The Dragon turns...