Sentence examples for of ardour from inspiring English sources

Add a dash of ardour, yes, but over using exclamation marks can be patronising and off-putting.

In 1790 he went, full of ardour, to revolutionary France, where he voted for the French republic but before too long fell foul of Robespierre.

Kate Valentine and Robert Murray as the lovers and Lucy Schaufer as the aristocratic secretary give performances of ardour and urgency.

The President's upper body stuck rigidly out of a Red Flag limousine as he drove along Chang'an Avenue shouting "I salute you, comrades" to thousands of soldiers, their faces set in the same fixed expression of ardour and belief.

"The solar market is projected to grow 35percentt a year for the next three to five years," said Walter V. Nasdeo, managing director of Ardour Capital, an investment bank in New York that specializes in energy companies.

Whether you thought the grand gestures were an expression of ardour or simply awkward, there's no doubt that a showy and public proposal puts enormous pressure on both parties.

He is well aware of the ardour of fans.

Alexander seems to have admired greatly the barons of eastern Iran; he had taken note of their ardour during the two years of hard and constant fighting in his conquest of northeastern Iran.

And there is little doubt of his ardour for the military life: the brotherhood of combat; the allure of war; the self-loathing of avoiding conflict; and the attraction of sinking his royal identity beneath a military cap.

Bakunin's 14-month stay in London led to an irreparable rift with Herzen, who had shed some of the revolutionary ardour of his youth and had already crossed swords with the critic and novelist Nikolay Chernyshevsky and other extreme radicals of the rising Russian generation.

It can be seen as the ultimate triumph of masochistic ardour, as a study in the reversal of traditional Japanese gender roles or as an attack on a hierarchial society now eroded by industrial modernisation.