Aaron and Christina are ardent listeners.
Purp learned firsthand from some of West's most ardent listeners, young fans empowered by the rapper's example.
Just as there's nothing intrinsically ennobling about the arts – Hitler was, after all, an ardent music listener – there's nothing fundamentally destructive about this latest development in virtual reality, either.
Frontmen and divas pretended to be high-living, superhuman lovers, using gospel tactics to imply ardent conviction; listeners, sharing an in-joke, agreed to suspend disbelief.
The hip eclecticism of Mr. Andriessen's music, which was center stage this summer in New York when the Lincoln Center Festival presented the American premiere of his experimental opera "Writing to Vermeer," has won him ardent young listeners in Europe.
The memo was posted by a blog of The Boston Phoenix, the weekly newspaper also owned by Phoenix Media/Communications. "Despite its celebrated history, its cutting-edge programming, its tradition of breaking new music, its ardent fans among listeners and advertisers, for some time it has been difficult to sustain the station — especially since the start of the Great Recession," Mr. Midnich wrote.
Ms. Salerno-Sonneberg has cultivated an aggressive virtuosity and a pop-star persona (leathery pants, silvery shirts and kinetic gyrations) that have won her ardent fans but aroused listeners and critics who like a little refinement in violin playing.
He is also an ardent Zionist, even though some of his listeners are more neutral on Israel, believing that it is improper to establish a secular government there before the coming of the Messiah.
Joyner had emerged as an ardent Obama supporter, but Smiley, in his commentary, urged listeners not to be taken in by "the hysteria and the hype".
