Tales of life in the Marines would meander into an amusing jeremiad on whichever right-wing "prick" was in the day's news, segueing into an ardent discussion about politics or a public scandal that someone in the room had the inside story on.
Organized by the Yemeni Higher Council for Childhood and Motherhood and supported by UNICEF, the conference took account of ardent discussion about deeply rooted traditions like early marriage as well as dialogue on innovative approaches to properly handle cases of children in institutional care.
That is in stark contrast to the departing president, Nicolas Sarkozy, whose frequent discussions with and ardent defense of the White House earned him the nickname "Sarko the American" back home.
Nonbelievers may liken this to the proven benefits of placebos in medicine, yet even the most ardent atheist would be unlikely to initiate a discussion on the existence of God in, say, a hospital waiting room.
At the same time, trading in the cars shifted from a small clique of collectors to eBay, where cars routinely sell for thousands of dollars today. Discussions of provenance sound esoteric to the ardent band of hobbyists who still build and race the cars.
Yet wherever the discussion roams, it keeps returning to his ardent, fundamental belief in encouraging young people.
His advocacy of a hierarchical structure of the church with emphasis on episcopal authority, his insistence on the real humanity of Christ, and his ardent desire for martyrdom are subjects that have generated much discussion.
Leon was an ardent student of history, quick to research the details of any discussion topic.
And though I am an ardent free speech advocate, if I were to ban anything, I would ban the use of metaphors from discussions of public policy, particularly in national security.
Much of the ensuing discussion was the highbrow equivalent of trash talk, a volleying of erudite insults between Hatto's most ardent boosters and Lemken and various agnostics.
