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Happily, Mr. Hamilton, who retains his boyish handsomeness, infuses this recollected ardor with convincing feeling.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

He policed brushback pitches with ardor and once called a night game for darkness when lighting malfunctions compromised visibility near home plate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

Investors could well lose some ardor for Ferrari if it can’t get the electric rollout right.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025

Over a bar piano and later behind closed doors, they bond over an affinity for rural songs thick with hardship, ardor and longing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2025

She went on that way, silent hour after silent hour; she had done nothing else for thirty-eight evenings now, and each time, her ardor deepened, her thoughts became more pure.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

Neither he nor manager Dave Roberts care to attribute the dip in production to the ardors of catching nearly every game.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2023

Damien Chazelle’s follow-up to “La La Land,” his swooning valentine to the movie musical, more closely resembles the film that preceded it, “Whiplash,” in its visceral attention to the rigors and ardors of achieving greatness.

From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2019

Domesticity, its ardors and rigors, unspoken binds and compacts, was one of Merrill’s major subjects.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 6, 2015

I also insist that to a billion contemporary Chinese, Mao Tse-tung has a lot more to answer for than the merry chaos and inscrutable epigrams this opera uses to recall his reckless ardors.

From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2011

Thy sun-bright mate, his joy to prove, Flutes sweet his ardors from above.

From Song-waves by Theodore H. (Theodore Harding) Rand