The men are somewhat less ardent.
Marc Anthony pines for romance with one of the most ardent voices in pop: a tenor that starts out seeming hesitant and rises to pealing, sobbing notes that hold on to their gentleness even at full power.
Mr. Anthony pines for romance with one of the most ardent voices in pop: a tenor that starts out seeming hesitant and rises to pealing, sobbing notes that hold on to their gentleness even at full power.
Around the same time that he was romancing Phyllis Gardner, he was also writing ardent letters to fifteen-year-old Noël Olivier (cousin of Laurence), tormenting his devoted companion Katherine (Ka) Cox, and setting his sights on the successful stage actress Cathleen Nesbitt.
Kurniawan is an ardent fan of Indonesian pulp fiction and the gothic romance novels called sastra picisan, dime novels known for their lurid style.
Though it has its share of carnality, Mr. Condon's wise and witty biography is, above all, an intellectual turn-on, its romance fueled by Kinsey's scientific zeal and his ardent, almost naïve belief that knowledge is not only power, but freedom.
Wright ramps up the emotion in his production, too, by having Clara start to fall in love with the Nutcracker as he's released from his spell – and act one benefits from having a blithe, airy pas de deux prefiguring a possible grown up romance: here Cojocaru is partnered by a very young and ardent-looking Ivan Putrov.
Ardent birthers may disagree.
