Scotland's Better Together campaign may be well ahead in the polls, but it is under fire from critics who say its message of doom and gloom is failing to inspire even the most ardent unionist with a positive vision of the country's future inside the UK.
But even if nanotechnology falls short of the vision of its ardent supporters, the times they are, indeed, a'changing.
No matter how ardent the courtship and how sunny the visions of the future, reality may prove a jolting journey into the unforeseen -- sometimes for better and sometimes for worse.
Taseer was a flawed machine politician, but also a brave and ardent defender of the Pakistan People's Party's vision of a modernizing and more culturally balanced Pakistan.
For Hillary, it corrects for a weakness -- she is still learning the state's political terrain -- and it plays to a strength: she has always been better at dogged, cautious service than the vision thing, though she and her most ardent supporters do not particularly like to think of her that way.
He sees one vision of Princess Aurora and bam! — he's all ardent love and courage.
Her ardent polemic, "A Vindication of Love," puts forward a darker, more demanding vision of love.
The Renaissance idealisation of the naked human body, the church's promise of redemption, the Classical notion of heroism, or Van Gogh's ardent 19th-century belief in democracy - these are revealed within his vision to be in tatters, powerless before the pitilessness.
Just as that documentary suggested new forms of creative vision arising from women's new and just demands, so the free, ardent, spontaneous creativity of "Born in Flames" emerges as an indispensable mode of radical change — one that many contemporary filmmakers with political intentions have yet to assimilate.
Andrew Frank's new dance-theater production concerns the life, dance and artistic vision of Isadora Duncan, one of the founders of modern dance and an ardent feminist and revolutionary.
