For de Bury and others like him, we have always desired with more undoubting avidity to investigate the well-tested labours of the ancients .
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The legendary Richter, whose live recordings are circulated with a cultish avidity usually reserved for performers long dead, takes an entirely different approach to this sonata.
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Singing a title role originated by Gene Kelly and later performed memorably by Harold Lang, Peter Gallagher fails to convey Joey's avidity and rakish charm.
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He is wrong, for instance, in his opposition to some international trade agreements, including NAFTA, and his avidity for the death penalty is appalling.
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And chairs, real as well as spurious, with solid backs carved in the usual flat relief, are bought up with an avidity inseparable from fashion.
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When I was young I made sure I heard everything, listened in on every conversation . . . Losing a good part of my hearing reduced my avidity.
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First, it exhibits a strong avidity for estradiol, the body's most potent form of estrogen, uniting with the hormone as fiercely as the alpha receptor does.
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You may roll your eyes over the assembly-line avidity with which Time and Newsweek churn out trend stories, but at least they know the nature of the beast.
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Also J . R . R . Tolkien said he read the book " with avidity ", and praised it as a work of philosophy, religion, and morality.
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In human populations, immune ( vaccinated ) individuals exert selective pressure for single point mutations in the hemagglutinin gene that increase receptor single point mutations that decrease receptor binding avidity.
