His avidity for study steadily increased with his age, to a degree that even when ill from overwork he did not stop reading books.
Though consumed with avidity in Burnley, where a typical working men's club gets through 1,000 bottles a year (a habit acquired during the First World War), our bottle remains stubbornly full.
I refuse, anyway, to show the Italian family where the shop is on the grounds that their daughters should not be encouraged in their avidity, their conventionality, and their Grazia-driven concupiscence.
Some officers of the corps sought power and profit with an avidity that led to clash after clash with the early governors.
"Marie Antoinette" had a relatively high budget ($40 million) and, as giddily textured and insightful as it is, her next film, "Somewhere," made for a mere $7 million, is an intimate movie that nonetheless conjures, with a documentary avidity, the inner life of a big city through its visual tones and moods, while also capturing a sense of life in the movies as such.
Renoir updated it with the Impressionist generation's avidity for common amusements of modern life — on the street, in the cheerfully crowded "The Umbrellas" (circa 1881-85), onstageage, in energetic portraits of an actress and a ballet dancer.
We got punished for our dewy avidity by stern stuff that, for all its pug-nacity, hardly laid a glove on the enemies of truth and justice.
He does so by way of images that are both incisive and flamboyant, that join his documentary avidity to his imaginative flair.
Eakins's portraits are tense standoffs between intimacy and integrity, conveying his avidity for the sitters while making no secret of the anxieties that attended the painting of them.
He's certainly got physical vitality, and a sexual avidity that, years ago, a director like Elia Kazan would have made a real attempt to shape into the screen-devouring presence of a James Dean or a Warren Beatty.
Godard teamed up with a young literary critic, film fanatic, and left-wing activist named Jean-Pierre Gorin; they called themselves the Dziga Vertov Group, in honor of the Soviet director, whose films, with their gyrating camerawork and documentary avidity, seemed a radical alternative to earnest narratives of ordinary socialist propaganda.
