ardency
Example Sentences
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He danced with electric energy, sang with heartwarming ardency, and splashed perspiration around the Circle in the Square in “Just in Time,” portraying the 1960s chart-topper and sometime movie star Bobby Darin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025
Teenagers can be cynical or anxious, they can be wry, but they also have natural belief in a better world, they are wired for ardency.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 13, 2020
Jackson’s most passionate defenders — a group known for its ardency — went to war, immediately demanding that Ms. Nottage, a two-time Pulitzer winner and one of America’s most respected dramatists, be fired.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2019
One: He loved a woman, with a great, unslakable ardency, named Fanny Brawne.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2019
The very ardency to which his sensibilities are aroused, implies a speedy subsidence; the intensity of his desire, a prompt gratification, easily forgotten.
From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
