Sentence examples for a consuming passion for from inspiring English sources

Marian Goodman's father, Maurice Geller, had a consuming passion for modern art.

Grievances run side by side, and often in the same person, with a consuming passion for things American.

Part of Žižek's secret is that he is both at once: a formidably erudite scholar well-versed in Kant and Heidegger who also has a consuming passion for the everyday.

He and White, however, shared a consuming passion for 19th-century opera, so, in 1970, they put on their first concerts, of arias and ensembles performed by some of the artists they had been trying to represent.

That evening there was a party at Annabel's, the famous nightclub in London, and one of my abiding memories is of the crate of Coca-cola beside Mr Engelhard's chair being steadily emptied by Nijinsky's owner, who had a consuming passion for the drink which bordered on addiction.

For instance, I love gadgets (I built a transistor radio when I was 14), and I have a consuming passion for baseball.

Music has always been a consuming passion of mine.

Afterward, both men acknowledged that archery was a consuming passion that left room for little else, and neither seemed particularly distressed by that.

They replaced the Pushkin character's single-minded obsession with discovering the old countess's secret for winning at cards with a dual fascination, the other being an equally consuming passion for Lisa, the countess's granddaughter.

It has become a professional home, and the search for Croesus a consuming passion.

Of all the older women in the world to covet, the one for whom he has developed a consuming passion is his attractive stepmother, Eve (Sigourney Weaver).