Word: ardor
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...returning players seem pleased with both the ability of the freshmen as well as their ardor to become part of the team...
...half of that well-dressed couple insouciantly holding hands as they traipse off to their romantic evening. We want the idyllic romance, the legendary love, that state of bliss so eloquently described on a thousand frilly paper hearts. And if we haven't attained this state of perfect ardor, we are well-inclined to sit at home and curse the very institution of couplehood and romantic love...
...dying is easy, filmmaking is hard. But everyone was so serious on Crouching Tiger because Lee, who made his reputation with adult dramas of manners like The Wedding Banquet and Sense and Sensibility, had a child inside screaming to get out. He wanted to pay homage to his lifelong ardor for martial-arts novels and pictures. He had made beautiful films; now he would bend his considerable artistry to make, dammit, a movie. The sad story has a happy ending. All that agony has produced exactly what Lee hoped to create--a blending of Eastern physical dexterity and Western intensity...
...When the Supreme Court speaks, people listen. And if the decision comes down for Bush by any score, Republicans will be baying with renewed ardor for Gore's head. A 5-4 decision, and it's pretty much just another partisan shouting match, albeit with both sides striving for the appropriate hushed tones when speaking of the Court itself. Make it 6-3 or 7-2 or more, though, and the buzzword on cable-news correspondents' lips will be "supermajority." And then it starts to echo...
Tocqueville said that one "can still consider the election of the president as a period of national crisis... The entire nation falls into a feverish state." But then, he wrote, "As soon as fortune has pronounced... this ardor is dissipated, everything becomes calm, and the river, one moment overflowed, returns peacefully...