All 9 Uses of
ardent
in
Babbitt
- Babbitt's evenings were barren then, and he found comfort only in Paul's second cousin, Myra Thompson, a sleek and gentle girl who showed her capacity by agreeing with the ardent young Babbitt that of course he was going to be governor some day.†
Chpt 6
- She passed from a feeble disgust at their closer relations into what promised to be ardent affection, but it drooped into bored routine.†
Chpt 6 *
- Zenith ardently received Sir Gerald (who had come to America to buy coal).†
Chpt 15
- None of these is more ardent than the Zenith Boosters' Club.†
Chpt 21
- Slim waist girdled with raw silk, strong brows, ardent eyes, hair parted above a broad forehead—she meant youth to him and a charm which saddened.†
Chpt 23
- If he took her to dinner, if he were seen by censorious friends—But he went on ardently: "Don't think I'm getting fresh if I suggest it would be nice for us to go out and have a little dinner together some evening."†
Chpt 24
- All the while he was dreading the moment when he would be alone with his wife and she would patiently expect him to be ardent.†
Chpt 25
- He had met Tanis's friends; he had, with the ardent haste of the Midnight People, who drink and dance and rattle and are ever afraid to be silent, been adopted as a member of her group, which they called "The Bunch."†
Chpt 29
- Incredulously he remembered that he had by his roaring familiarity with them laid himself open to the patronizing of youths whom he would have kicked out of his office; that by dancing too ardently he had exposed himself to rebukes from the rattiest of withering women.†
Chpt 29
Definition:
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(ardent) showing or feeling intense emotion -- typically strong positive feelings such as enthusiasm or love