Word: ardors
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Byron should provide a jaded foil to Bysshe's youthful ardor; he needs to exhibit at least the shadow of his past energy so that the audience can glimpse the man who said, "What I earn my brains I spend by my bollocks." His caustic, irreverent lines carry Rigby a long way, but they can't make up for his ennervated delivery and static physical presence. Instead of dominating the stage as he should, Rigby leaves a vacuum...
...control. The girl, who insists she is having sex only because the money her lover gives her helps support her family, knows the stronger partner is always the one who loves less. The man (Tony Leung, a wonderful Hong Kong actor) is singed, happily, by the flame of his ardor. His naked vulnerability is just one of the gifts he is eager to bestow. She can swallow his pride, his ego, his love and longing. He , is hers to do with as she will, now and forever...
...such grand gestures should come as no surprise. The Barcelonese exude a near-fanatical pride in their ancient city, 2000-year long series of civic re-inventions. Understanding--let alone appreciating-this puzzling letimotif in the history of the newly resplendent city-by-the-sea would demand the intellectual ardor of a cabala scholar...
...trouble began even before the marriage. The 1981 royal match between Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, a touchingly pretty aristocrat of 20, needed no hype. It really was a picture-perfect wedding. The sheltered bride- to-be blushed and gazed with ardor at her proud fiance. She had little to say for herself, nothing much at all in the way of experience, accomplishment or taste. But the press spotted its new idol. Diana quickly became an international obsession. Before the girl reached the altar, her distraught mother had written the Times of London to complain with poignant naivete that...
...achievements of technology, like telephones, fax machines, television, communications satellites and computers, suffuse the earth with a sort of preternatural glow. The people of the industrialized world have become consumers of secularized miracles -- and the people of the Third World yearn for such products with a kind of religious ardor. Show a developing Polaroid picture to a man in a remote forest of Africa or South America. The developing image (his own, perhaps) seems to him more astonishing and supernatural than the Shroud of Turin...