Sentence examples for ardent disciple from inspiring English sources

He became Carnap's "ardent disciple", and although they were to become increasingly combative philosophically, they remained firm friends.

Certain facts about Copernicus's early life are well established, although a biography written by his ardent disciple Georg Joachim Rheticus (1514 74) is unfortunately lost.

At seventeen I found myself at SUNY Potsdam, the New York State university system's music school, where I had gone as an ardent disciple of John Coltrane and lightning-fast technician of saxophone and clarinet.

Charles Darwin, in his autobiography, confessed that he was nearly barred from travelling aboard H.M.S. Beagle, because its captain, "an ardent disciple of Lavater... doubted whether anyone with my nose could possess sufficient energy and determination for the voyage".

Though Waits has never been a mainstream star like Charles, few performers attract more ardent disciples.

In Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, and Alito, the right found four ardent disciples who would carry out its retrogressive agenda.

Another high point is Vikram Gandhi's "Borat -like documentary "Kumar?' a douBorat -likesatire in which the filmmaker poses as an Indocumentaryho popularizes a bogus new yoga technique system in Arizona and attracts ardent disciples to whom he becomes more attached than he expected.

For all but the most ardent disciples, it is the lively atmosphere that matters as much as the music - the friendly banter, wild stories and back-slapping good cheer of a pub session are like nothing else on the planet.

The writer of essays and short fiction will go down in history as one of the most ardent disciples of creativity, notably for his work defending freedom of written expression.

My primary beef with the green economy crowd is not with Van Jones, but to his often overly-ardent disciples that assign way too much credibility to estimates - in my view, guesses - of how many green jobs exist or will be created.

THERE was a boys' club, of course, a band of ardent, jockeying disciples.