avidity
- n a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something
- Lenny Cole (Tom Wilkinson) runs a mob called the Wild Bunch; he looms over his lads with a vulture's hunched avidity, and his intimidating stare lasers right through his Ray-Bans.
- The movie was also an early clue to Hollywood's avidity for young black talent, both behind the camera (Columbia Pictures gave boyz-wonder Singleton $6 million to make the picture .
- The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan's second chapter in his revival of the DC Comics franchise, will hit theaters with all the hoopla and fanboy avidity of the summer season's .