If you look beneath the kinky surface, you will come upon many more conventional domestic tableaux, in which a lot of us feel left out of the action, resigned as we are to our no longer ardent desires even as our fantasy lives are constantly stoked and stimulated by media images.
Formigoni, as it happens, was also an old childhood friend of the Cardinal of Milan, Angelo Scola, who, as the conclave opened, was the leading contender for Peter's throne and for some years (though reportedly no longer) an ardent spokesman for Communion and Liberation.
She was no longer an ardent socialist, as she'd been in university — she wasn't offended by pragmatism, and she appreciated a man who knew how to get things done.
The juggernaut that is the Harvard Development Office has grown no less ardent in its pleas for my contribution this reunion season.
Mr Obama may burn with no less ardent a desire to be a "transformative" president: in 2008 he got into hot water with Democrats for praising this aspect of the Reagan presidency.
"I did the charming and he was offensive," said Mr Johnson.Since then the sharp-suited, gel-haired Mr Johnson has established a reputation as a moderniser no less ardent than Mr Blair and as perhaps an even better communicator.
In the halcyon early days of Arnold Schwarzenegger's governorship, when he and key advisers were contemplating efforts to change the U.S. Constitution so that he could run for President, he had no more ardent promoter than his wife, Maria Shriver.
There is no doubt that modern Americans have grown attached to national security, but their affection is no more ardent than for the government's provision of other forms of security — social, homeland, economic — for which we are not paying the full cost.
Selling the Genre The cabaret field has no more ardent promoter than Donald Smith, the executive director of the Mabel Mercer Foundation, which each fall produces the Cabaret Convention, an annual convocation of performers (both well-known and obscure) that began at Town Hall in 1989, with marathon showcases that are usually sold out.
By Connie Bruck May 18 , 2011In the halcyon early days of Arnold Schwarzenegger's governorship, when he and key advisers were contemplating efforts to change the U.S. Constitution so that he could run for President, he had no more ardent promoter than his wife, Maria Shriver.
