Sentence examples for a violent passion from inspiring English sources

But Peter was soon attracted to the beautiful Inês, and a violent passion sprang up between them.

Water, air and earth court each other with a violent passion in these drawings.

"Marnie" is a movie of violent passion that contains an appalling rape scene; the essential subject of the movie is control — the control that a man exerts over an unwilling woman to "cure" her of her resistance to pleasure (that is, to pleasure with him and for him).

The new video for Skylar Spence's track "I Can't Be Your Superman," off the producer's debut album Prom King, is a tale of violent passion.

The cold, calculating nature of murder by poisoning, as opposed to the violent passion implicit in a stabbing or strangulation, is precisely suited to propelling plots in which any one of the characters could be the culprit, all the way until the very end.

In March 1872, while tormented by violent passion, jealousy, and guilt and in a state of physical dissolution, Rimbaud returned to Charleville so that Verlaine could attempt a reconciliation with his wife.

But she had a remarkable success there in the title role of Voltaire's Zaïre (1874), and she was soon given the chance to play the title role in Jean Racine's Phèdre, a part for which the critics supposed she lacked the resources needed to portray violent passion.

Return, then, to brace for the bloody, violent passion.

Ferrante captures the complexity of both female friendship and the fiery (and often violent) passion of Naples so brilliantly".

In Kabuki there can be moments of realism but also whole episodes of mime and acrobatics; there can be moments of slapstick but also moments of violent passion.

"Insanely violent passion".