Water may be the same everywhere you go, but the breezes over Eton Dorney are plainly favouring the host nation – bearing, as they do, the ardent cheers that yesterday sustained two more wins from just three entered heats.
In 1949 my mother gave me a book about the Cleveland Indians; I became their ardent acolyte, cheering and weeping with them through the epic season of 1954, and in my mind's eye I tried to imagine what it would be like to see them play in that big ballpark by the lake.
Community interest goes to another decibel level with both sides of the bleachers packed with ardent fans cheering on their respective teams.
The fans are glimpsed in ardent moments, holding signs, cheering, coming to the ballpark with their faces painted.
The defence claims that the accuser, who won $500,000 in a civil settlement, is motivated by money: he had to claim that his memory had been repressed in order to file the civil suit, where the statute of limitations is two years.Mr Jackson's trial has begun with considerably more hoopla, with the defendant shimmying into court in a white suit and jewelled vest to the cheers of his ardent fans.
Wiggins, who last month was the first Briton to win the Tour De France, was cheered on by thousands of ardent supporters as he rode home in a time of 50 39.54.
The entire Assembly "broke into stormy cheers of 'Hurrah!,' overwhelmed with unbounded emotion, jubilation and ardent reverence".
Ralph SmileyEven the most ardent devotees of Frank Sinatra, Jane Russell and Groucho Marx will find meager Christmas cheer in "Double Dynamite," yesterday's arrival at the Paramount.
Erstwhile flower children and other fans of Laura Nyro, the ardent balladeer of the 1960's and 70's, will find much to cheer in "Eli's Comin'," the stage celebration of her work that opened this week at the Vineyard Theater.
