(a.) Hot or burning; causing a sensation of burning; fiery; as, ardent spirits, that is, distilled liquors; an ardent fever.
(a.) Having the appearance or quality of fire; fierce; glowing; shining; as, ardent eyes.
(a.) Warm, applied to the passions and affections; passionate; fervent; zealous; vehement; as, ardent love, feelings, zeal, hope, temper.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet what has been unfolding in the past 15 months or so should make even the most ardent pro-European think about an orderly mechanism for making member states exit: the euro crisis and, less obviously, Hungary's backsliding from liberal democracy to a soft form of authoritarianism, or what an American paper recently called " Lukashenko lite ".
(2) Long regarded as the most ardently pro-European party in British politics, the Lib Dems have pledged to do everything they can to campaign for Britain to remain in the EU and hope to win support from voters who regret the result of June’s referendum.
(3) He was as ardent as any Democrat to see the back of George Bush, but was never swept up in Obamania.
(4) Those same countries which are most resistant to immigration are often the most ardent proponents of the free market which has created this situation and the same countries that are profiting out of the opening up of their eastern European neighbours.
(5) For Tories, it's no problem – they ardently want to cut the state back as hard as they dare.
(6) Elizabeth Wallschlager, a Panamanian immigrant and a Catholic, said: “I don’t think the pope said that.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest An ardent Trump supporter from Kiawah Island, she added: “I think that it’s a misunderstanding.
(7) Even the most ardent Republican supporter must realise that historically the party has tended to boost the wealth of the few rather than the many.
(8) But Trump’s performance seemed to ease the concerns of attendees who represented some of the most ardent cultural warriors in the party, a group that has long been uncomfortable with the party’s nominee, and preferred other candidates like Ted Cruz during the primary.
(9) He must have been one of the few children who noticed that an animating crisis in Mary Poppins was a run on a bank; less surprising is his memory of rats in the streets after the rubbish collectors' strike in the 70s, which engendered an enduring scepticism about the Labour party (though, "like any intelligent teenager" he was briefly an ardent Labour supporter and briefly a Scottish nationalist - "I'm promiscuous that way").
(10) Even the most ardent Kobe apologist cannot deny that he committed an aggressive act of infidelity and made himself look terrible in his initial statements to police, where he lamented not simply paying off his alleged victim.
(11) These ardent conservatives are also challenging the conventional wisdom – and testimony from the US Treasury secretary, Jack Lew, that the US would be at high risk of default once its borrowing authority expires on Thursday.
(12) Belmondo could treat women tenderly (as the priest dealing with an ardent parishioner in Léon Morin, prêtre) and harshly (beating up a treacherous moll in Le Doulos).
(13) Although ardent strides have been made in the realm of diagnosis and follow-up with the advent of ultrasonography, mortality and morbidity have not changed appreciably over the past 20 years.
(14) On one side were the “ardent internationalists”, “comfortable Europhiles” and “engaged metropolitans”, while “strong sceptics” and “EU hostiles” occupied the other pole.
(15) Zlatan’s many ardent supporters, those who are fans as opposed to curious neutral observers, might not like it.
(16) Who knows, perhaps soon the concealed British penises of yesteryear might become proudly erect and engirdled with daisy chains wreathed by ardent lady lovers – just like in the novel Lady Chatterley's Lover , the ban on which had been overturned in 1960.
(17) Jones told Turnbull that because he had had dinner with Palmer, a trenchant critic of Abbott, “people” were suggesting that “precisely because you have no hope ever of being the leader again – you have got that into your head, no hope ever – that because of that you are happy to chuck a few bombs around that might blow up Abbott a bit, that is what they are saying.” Turnbull replied that it was Jones who was undermining the Abbott government and “doing the work of the Labor party”, a charge not usually levelled at the Sydney announcer who is an ardent supporter of the prime minister.
(18) Not even the most ardent Brexiteer would want to rush into a notification under article 50.
(19) Luckily, many of Prop 187’s and SB 1070’s most ardent supporters are now either eternally vilified ( Governor Pete Wilson ), politically irrelevant ( Governor Jan Brewer ) or in massive legal problems ( Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio ).
(20) Among the list of eminent speakers on the platform at the inaugural meeting in November 1955 – at the Central Methodist hall in Westminster – was the novelist JB Priestley, Lord Pakenham (later Lord Longford, a member of the incoming Labour government in 1964, and a lifelong penal reformer), Gerald Gardiner QC (Labour’s lord chancellor from 1964-70) as Lord Gardiner, a passionate law reformer and ardent abolitionist, and CH Rolph (a prominent writer and a former inspector of police in the City of London).
Fanaticism
Definition:
(n.) Excessive enthusiasm, unreasoning zeal, or wild and extravagant notions, on any subject, especially religion; religious frenzy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Remember that the dark forces of fear and fanaticism never die.
(2) Was justice itself falling prey to the menacing mood of rightwing fanaticism that has pervaded the country with the inexorable rise of neo-Nazi Golden Dawn?
(3) Congress party president Sonia Gandhi , whose daughter Priyanka and son Rahul are also on the campaign trail, told voters on Wednesday that Modi represented a "dangerous combination of religious fanaticism, power and money".
(4) The Indian position has been that any attempt to reconcile with militants is doomed to failure and risks plunging Afghanistan into anarchy and fanaticism from which Pakistan stands to benefit.
(5) Among other things, the novels work as a meditation on America's Calvinist conscience, its strengths and blindnesses, and the way that it moved from fanaticism to smugness in the century after the civil war.
(6) Just marvel at the visceral and psychologically revealing language that Sullivan, after ennobling western violence, uses for the London attack [his emphasis]: "terrorism in its most animal-like form, created and sustained entirely by religious fanaticism which would find any excuse to murder, destroy and oppress Muslims and non-Muslims in the name of God."
(7) In an atmosphere of “coercion, fear and fanaticism”, blackmail, theft and smuggling have supported the continuation of armed conflict so that the Syrian economy has become “a black hole” absorbing “domestic and external resources”.Oil production continues to be an “important financial resource” for Isis and other armed groups, it says.
(8) So he positively enjoyed draping what is, in fact, a chilling allegory of paternal possessiveness and pseudo-scientific fanaticism, in the gaudy fabric of a "romance", just as the author pretends, in his pseudo-preface, to have discovered it among the works of "M de l'Aubépine" (French for "haw-thorn").
(9) But the events in Iran are a stark reminder of the glowering presence of religion on the world stage, not just in the form of al-Qaida-style fanaticism.
(10) Two years ago, I pleaded with Xulhaz to leave Bangladesh in the face of growing fanaticism.
(11) It is held that the one thing that remains constant is the fanaticism, even if the specific beliefs are subject to change.
(12) The Salesman review: Asghar Farhadi offers layers of Willy Loman Read more It said: “On behalf of all nominees, we would like to express our unanimous and emphatic disapproval of the climate of fanaticism and nationalism we see today in the US and in so many other countries, in parts of the population and, mostly and unfortunately of all, among leading politicians.” Regardless of who wins the Oscar “we believe there is no best country, best gender, best religion or best colour,” the directors added.
(13) Her communist sympathies have been fanned almost to the point of fanaticism owing to her upbringing in Rhodesia MI5 continued to monitor Lessing’s movements, speeches and writing, and eagerly passed titbits on to the South African police.
(14) The Reina atrocity shows how deeply Islamic fanaticism has taken hold in Turkey | Elif Shafak Read more The bloodbath has now been claimed by Islamic State .
(15) Eurocrats with their centralising obsession reminded Judt of George Santayana's definition of fanaticism: redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
(16) At one level, it is intended as a show of global solidarity with the US, a signal that the international community can unite in its opposition to fanaticism.
(17) As Marston sails for Europe, watching America recede into his past, Fitzgerald offers a closing meditation nearly as incantatory as the famous conclusion of Gatsby: "Watching the fading city, the fading shore, from the deck of the Majestic, he had a sense of overwhelming gratitude and of gladness that America was there, that under the ugly débris of industry the rich land still pushed up, incorrigibly lavish and fertile, and that in the heart of the leaderless people the old generosities and devotions fought on, breaking out sometimes in fanaticism and excess, but indomitable and undefeated.
(18) He added: "There seems to be no doubt that one of the deceased was blind, but the fact that he got where he did get [moving across rugged countryside and over a ridge] suggests a fanaticism which would fully explain the description given to me of his standing in front of the crowd and waving it forward."
(19) From Saudi Arabia to Kuwait, they are key allies and partners of the British government, and the Tories are endeavouring to forge ever closer links with these despotic exporters of fanaticism.
(20) We only owe you stabbing the kidneys and striking the necks.’ “Well, Madam Speaker, I don’t think it would be possible to witness uglier fanaticism than this, more monstrous fanaticism and extremism than this, and I regret to say it is now present in our country.” The prime minister’s words came a day after police announced the arrest of two men and the seizure of a machete, a hunting knife and a homemade Islamic State flag in the western Sydney suburb of Fairfield.