To her credit, Ducornet understands, as novelists must, that people are capable not only of wanting, with equal ardor, more than one thing at the same time, but of wanting things that directly contradict each other.
Indeed, encouraging homeownership is one of the few issues the Clinton and Bush administrations pursued with equal ardor.
In Shiraz, the heart of the country's old wine-growing region, the Wards make a pilgrimage to the tomb of Hafez, the 14th-century Sufi poet who extolled God and the grape with equal ardor.
The non-signers of the Communist disclaimer and their antagonists among the Regents, though weary, were neither apathetic nor confused as they pressed with equal ardor for a last engagement.
In "Twenty Minutes of Love," most likely the first film Chaplin had a hand in directing, the Tramp scowls as he watches a couple embrace, then suddenly turns to kiss a tree with equal ardor.
Nevertheless, the handful of spindly hopefuls at the film's center — including a terrified redhead and a pocket-size Alain Delon — power through, forking manure and flirting with female classmates with equal ardor.
With equal ardor but less fanfare, scientists throughout the world have embarked on similar or related projects.
Mr. Ebert is generally immune to the golden-ageism that has become a critical default position; he embraces the old and the new with equal ardor.
Life in the bubble won't do for a crossover artist like Franklin, who approaches his visits to churches and hip-hop radio shows with equal ardor.
In 2000, he said, he moved to Austin with the intent to study literature, admiring Bukowski and Hemingway with equal ardor.
Though he is devoted to Camille, there are other aspects of life he wants to embrace with at least equal ardor.
