Literary notes about Ardor (AI summary)
In literature, the term ardor is frequently employed to evoke a fervent passion that transcends mere emotion, imbuing narratives with a sense of zeal whether in political, romantic, or artistic contexts. Authors have used it to describe everything from the buoyant passion of an individual's heart [1] to the martial enthusiasm that galvanizes armies [2, 3]. Its usage spans depictions of intense love [4, 5] and determined artistic dedication [6, 7], as well as the more measured, sometimes diminished, fervor found in reflective moments [8, 9]. Moreover, ardor often serves as a dynamic force driving characters toward bold, sometimes precipitous, actions on both personal and historical scales [10, 11, 12].
- It was a spectacle to stir the most indifferent heart, let alone one so full of ardor and buoyancy as mine.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood - The orator awakens their martial ardor, and they are wrought up to a kind of religious desperation by the visions of the prophet and the dreamer.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving - When hail-hurling gales arise Of blustering Equinox, to fan the strife, It stands erect, with martial ardor rife, A joyous soldier!
— from Poems by Victor Hugo - I loved him with all the ardor of a young girl's first love.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. Jacobs - He fell in love, as men are in the habit of doing, and pressed his suit with an earnestness and an ardor which left nothing to be desired.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin - From fire to oil was a natural transition for burned fingers, and Amy fell to painting with undiminished ardor.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - From fire to oil was a natural transition for burnt fingers, and Amy fell to painting with undiminished ardor.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott - This in itself was enough to damp the ardor of my enthusiasm.
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass - And then I put my hands in my pockets, my ardor dimmed by the look of that vacant, staring face.
— from The Best Short Stories of 1917, and the Yearbook of the American Short Story - The death of the poor scholar imparted a furious ardor to that crowd.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo - For while the cause of the Gordians was embraced with such diffusive ardor, the Gordians themselves were no more.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - Nelson at Trafalgar, the end of his career, led his column; but it may be doubted whether he had any other motive than his ardor for battle.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. Mahan
