Word: ardors
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...those artists, found mostly in fiction (and in the fantasies of artists), whose true vocation is mixing up the hearts of the many women who fall into his bed. Their avid emotions are the canvas on which he splashes the bright strokes of his evanescent ardor. Cristina, ready for an adventure, lures the painter to her and Vicky's table, and Juan Antonio, ever the gracious roue, proposes that the Americans accompany him to the town of Oviedo. "We'll eat well, we'll drink good wine, we will make love." "Who will make love?" asks Vicky with a schoolmarm...
...longer than one who was loved. Literature does not work that way. For better or worse, millions love Shakespeare. Lovers are, of course, blind, and will forgive any number of faults. Milton is hard to love. Smith claims: "No student of Milton has left Paradise Lost without feeling ... an ardor of admiration." Even if that were true, which it's clearly not, notice that Smith talks about students and admiration. Not readers. Not love. And that's why most of our culture has taken Milton's own advice, and filed for divorce. Milton is a great poet, but living with...
...brothers since The Matrix, and before that dreamed up the chromatic excesses of The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert) don't want to evoke feelings so much as visualize them. When young Speed first meets young Trixie, candy hearts and roses bloom around him, illuminating his innocent ardor. The color scheme of the Racer home evokes Pee-wee's Playhouse in its cartoon cheeriness, and the decor is pure '50s Populuxe. Even the choice of wallpaper - cheery flowers in the kitchen, a tangle of rectangles for Rex's room - will have you smiling; it reinforces the sunny...
...campus culture contemptuous of patriotic ardor and saturated with overwrought human rights rhetoric, a word in praise of military service stands proxy for anti-gay sentiment...
...process for hiring Ethnicity and Race professors. Nevertheless, the issues of expansion and increased hate-crime enforcement seem unresolved as ever. The strikers claim that they will continue their dissent in other forms. To starve oneself for a cause involves a great deal of resolve, conviction and (possibly misplaced) ardor. In the interest of protest’s legitimacy and its success, we hope that this amount of passion goes into less severe and lurid means of effecting change before protesters put their health on the line...