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Now the tables have been turned, and they will have to see whether revivalist ardor can halt the counter-attack mounted by their opponents with the help, many people think, of Russia and perhaps Iran too.The Taliban's chief bane is Ahmad Shah Masoud, the stubborn Tajik chieftain who held out for so long against the old Soviet-backed regime in his fastness in the Panjshir valley (see map).
Yet the impossibility of their romance only deepened their ardor.
The dog fell into a sudden passion, hunkered over, and began to make love to Shesheeb's shin with a vicious ardor that cared not for sharp words or strikes.
This culinary approach, presumably, creates such ardor that on the fourth date the two reach fulfillment in her pad, sleeves rolled up and exchanging recipes like mad.
Like everything else about Kahlo, her horticulture commands attention and rewards it with jolts of vicarious, insatiable ardor , if you open your eyes, mind, and heart to her.
He also seemed too nostalgic for the ardor and infighting of the Cultural Revolution, which worried quasi-liberals.
Juliet's mother wants her to look for signs of love in the face of a dull potential suitor, Paris (played with self-effacing ardor by Justin Guarini), but why?
His and Emma's affair proceeds the way many do: in the beginning, Rodolphe is full of ardor , but, Flaubert tells us: Eventually, sure of her love, he stopped making any special effort to please her, and little by little his manner changed.
"IN DEFENSE OF ARDOR " Another chapter in the backlash against irony — or, as the press release states, irony narrowly defined as "a kind of ideological malaise, a willful displacing of affect in return for absolute neutrality and arrogant negativity".
Sitting on the banquette with my wife, she listened with amusement to his increasingly convoluted explanation of the origins of his porno paintings, and eventually deposited one of her long, bare legs in his lap, where he stroked it with unflagging ardor.
Set against this are sequences in which Che, who had a medical degree, administers aid to a few isolated sufferers; the thought that his bourgeois profession may have done more practical good, during this last hurrah, than his wild proletarian ardor is an irony, I suspect, in which Soderbergh is more than happy for us to share.
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The primary grammatical function of "ardor" is that of a noun . As Ludwig AI indicates, it denotes great warmth of feeling, fervor, passion, spirit, or intense heat. Examples from Ludwig demonstrate its use in various contexts, always as a noun referring to a strong emotion or sensation.
Expression frequency: Very common
