ardors

It crushed them into the remotest recesses of their own minds, pressing out of them, like juices from the grape, all the false ardors and exaltations and undue self-values of the human soul, until they perceived themselves finite and small, specks and motes, moving with weak cunning and little wisdom amidst the play and inter-play of the great blind elements and forces. 4

Le Milieu, Le Moment, La Race: Literary Naturalism in Jack London's White Fang 2010

Love's sweet ardors brimming in their eyes; his ruddy blood spraying their cheeks; his voice playing in and out with their voices, now hiding as a tremolo in their throats, and again shading a tone with that ineffable tenderness which he alone can utter.

WHEN GOD LAUGHS 2010

Safely at the bottom station, I load up on postcards, one of my last analog ardors.

Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2011

Safely at the bottom station, I load up on postcards, one of my last analog ardors.

Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2011

Through incendiary language that borders on hate and deceit, disclosure of private facts, and misrepresentation of my work as a representative of an organization, John and Ken rule the ultra-conservative airwaves seemingly oblivious to the ardors their "amusing theatre" may ignite.

Jorge-Mario Cabrera: John and Ken's Misguided Fury on Immigration Jorge-Mario Cabrera 2011

Her prodigious innocence appalled him, freezing on his lips all ardors of speech, and convincing him, in spite of himself, of his own unworthiness.

Chapter 20 2010

Safely at the bottom station, I load up on postcards, one of my last analog ardors.

Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2011

Through incendiary language that borders on hate and deceit, disclosure of private facts, and misrepresentation of my work as a representative of an organization, John and Ken rule the ultra-conservative airwaves seemingly oblivious to the ardors their "amusing theatre" may ignite.

Jorge-Mario Cabrera: John and Ken's Misguided Fury on Immigration Jorge-Mario Cabrera 2011

Safely at the bottom station, I load up on postcards, one of my last analog ardors.

Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2011

Painted the same year as "Mrs. Edith Mahon," "An Actress (Portrait of Suzanne Santje)" shows a wo man collapsed with exhaustion from the ardors of a theatrical performance as well as perhaps personal affairs; here the great chair seems almost a stage throne.

Intimations of Mortality 2010