ardency

I was striving to be selfless, to feed the hungry, to French kiss and grope for ardency without baring my breasts.

I left the Geffen prepared to declare “A Wicked Soul in Cherry Hill” a hit, with a few qualifications — namely, that the storytelling needs some cleaning up and that the role of the rabbi could be endowed with more than good looks and clumsy ardency.

But even at his most frustrating, the ardency of his thinking draws us to him.

I was striving to be selfless, to feed the hungry, to French kiss and grope for ardency without baring my breasts.

This National Theatre film, directed by Simon Godwin and starring Josh O’Connor and Jessie Buckley as Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers, aired on PBS in the spring and instantly set a new bar for stage-screen hybrids with its breathless ardency and bracing fluidity.