He slaps my bottom in a learned act of passionate aggression.
This has not escaped the attention of Acting President Vladimir V. Putin, a passionate advocate of building a strong federal state in a Russia whose vast and distant lands have slipped from the authority that Moscow enjoyed in Soviet times.
Thereafter his seminal themes were of love and security and assertive passionate acts that throw off the inertia of his Cubist figures.
This is, we discover, an act of passionate love: the year is 1867, and the starving couple are trying to reach the north Irish coast to sail for America.
This poem is an act of passionate imagination -- of the ability to empathize -- without which, Blake and others have challenged, social and cultural and political transformations are impossible.
I like to think that it was, in some gloriously liberated sense, an inspired act of criticism itself: a passionate, flesh-and-blood, real-life response to Jackson's film.
He was a passionate promoter of Jewish civil rights who, in the House of Lords, in 1753, had helped pass an act of Parliament naturalizing Jews as citizens, though the measure was soon repealed, in the face of anti-Semitic popular outrage.
Cynics suspect that the real aim of the "Sportsmen's Act" is to let vulnerable Democrats in rural states sponsor a law that sounds pro-gun, thus stroking a passionate subset of voters.
The market, too, is passionate – when someone pays out millions for a painting it is not a sombre investment but an act of love and self-discovery: a way to say who you are and what you believe in.
