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He danced with electric energy, sang with heartwarming ardency, and splashed perspiration around the Circle in the Square in “Just in Time,” portraying the 1960s chart-topper and sometime movie star Bobby Darin.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025

Teenagers can be cynical or anxious, they can be wry, but they also have natural belief in a better world, they are wired for ardency.

From The Guardian • Jun. 13, 2020

Jackson’s most passionate defenders — a group known for its ardency — went to war, immediately demanding that Ms. Nottage, a two-time Pulitzer winner and one of America’s most respected dramatists, be fired.

From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2019

One: He loved a woman, with a great, unslakable ardency, named Fanny Brawne.

From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2019

Oft at my feet he's told the moving tale, And woo'd me with the ardency of youth.

From The Prince of Parthia A Tragedy by Moses, Montrose Jonas