Sentence examples for avid of from inspiring English sources
A recent Time magazine article on the Millennials offered this quote from a forty-something writer: "Veteran teachers are saying that never in their experience were young people so thirstily avid of pleasure as now…so selfish". The source of the quote?
Jim Kent was the most avid of outdoorsmen until a mountain hike left him gasping for air.
Her fall from grace may mean that this most avid of publicity-seekers may have to keep a low profile at the company in which she is a majority shareholder.
Reflecting on his long career in developing nuclear weapons strategies and organising the forces to implement them efficiently, he described himself ruefully as having been "among the most avid of these keepers of the faith in nuclear weapons".
It's no surprise that the more avid of us, perched in our pews beneath the projector's beam, should greet it as an Annunciation: I would look at that light as a pious boy might react to a shaft of sunlight in a cathedral.
(Interestingly, Joachim Köhler, the author of "Wagner's Hitler," the most avid of those prosecutorial tomes, has since recanted, and, in an article translated in the current issue of The Wagner Journal, he argues that anti-Semitism was "not the theme of [Wagner's] life" but "one theme among indescribably many").
Ellington was an avid supporter of racial progress, of African-American respect and respectability.
Avid support of a number of Jewish and non-Jewish charities.
Still, the majority of cardiologists remain avid fans of marathons.
Mormons, Ms. Belluscio said, are some of the most avid consumers of Jell-O.
