So why not get into the habit of expressing our most ardent sentiments more spontaneously and more often?
The president-elect, Roh Moo Hyun, who emerged victorious last week in part on the strength of these sentiments, is an ardent advocate of engagement with North Korea, and has vowed to be assertive in dealing with the United States, which he has openly called heavy-handed.
Not very ardent of him, Andreas thought.
That issue seemed to play little role in Turkey, where the overwhelming sentiment among voters was an ardent desire to throw out of office anyone associated with the country's collapsing economy.
The reason I bring this up is that there is a popular sentiment out there among Trump's most ardent critics that I encounter on a semi-regular basis, in travels through social media and in real life, that holds that some quick solution to the Trump problem is imminent.
" 'The Class' is a good story, although not a well-written one," Susan Isaacs wrote in The Times, sentiments that remain the consensus of the many ardent fans still reading and posting reviews, despite its poetic deficits.
Mr. Trump's expression of support for Mr. Arpaio, the 85-year-old crusader against illegal immigration, has ignited a debate across Arizona about the tactics used to crack down on Latinos, the reactions the strategy spawned in fueling the repudiation by voters who ousted Mr. Arpaio, and the nationalist sentiment stoked by Mr. Trump, one of the former sheriff's most ardent admirers.
Anti-vaccine sentiment is seemingly pervasive in our culture and at a minimum, ardent and vocal.
The New York Times reported on Monday that Bannon ― an ardent nationalist who previously ran the website Breitbart, which traffics in white nationalist sentiment ― was in "limbo" and faced "internal exile" in the White House following a deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend.
Japanese and European companies are busily trying to strike deals to tap the resource, but a nationalist sentiment about the lithium is building quickly in the government of President Evo Morales, an ardent critic of the United States who has already nationalized Bolivia's oil and natural gas industries.
