Word: ardor
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...hour for Viet Nam was late. "His mission is a pathetic one," Diem's chief of staff admitted. "Everyone thinks the cause is lost." But if there could be a rallying, Diem had unusual assets: the Asian fame of an ascetic, the ardor of an incorruptible nationalist, a record of stubborn noncollaboration with the Communists and the French...
From the center benches, Fanfani's colleagues of the divided Christian Democratic Party applauded, but with more politeness than ardor. The rest of the chamber sat in stony silence. Next day, when the time came for debate of the Fanfani program, there was no debate. Not a Deputy rose to discuss...
...jail, Teresa uncomplainingly took over his party chores. She fled with him to France and to Russia, fought by his side in the Spanish Civil War. In underground papers she edited, Teresa laid down the party line, and she also wrote three proletarian novels. No one ever questioned her ardor or orthodoxy. Presumably no more congenial pair existed in all the party. Luigi sometimes dallied with younger and comelier Communists (for Teresa was never pretty), but he always went back to his wife, leaving his girl friends to nurse their broken hearts in high positions he created for them...
...woman who sought sexual satisfaction as vainly and desperately as her male counterpart, Don Juan. "When I was with [my lover]," the Sandian heroine Lélia confesses, "I was seized with a strange, delirious hunger which no embrace could satisfy . . . Desire, in my case, was an ardor of the spirit which paralyzed the power of the senses ... a savage ecstasy which took possession of my brain, and became exclusively concentrated there...
...sort of hearty comedy that rolls 'em in the aisles, but a Deep Freeze mixture of the sardonic and the downright mean. Dead Man in the Silver Market* is ostensibly an autobiographical treatise on what happens to patriotic ardor when it becomes decadent and jingo. But it reads more like a sharp essay by a man who has no country to be patriotic about...