But Jones's sense of place is acute, and his passion for the landscape - for its colours, its creatures, its textures, its scents - is absolutely magnetic.
Hugo's is the envy of adolescence, which combines the acute and unwieldy passion of childhood with the sinister ability to act that comes with adulthood.
But it proved invaluable, for the qualities that make a good cricket commentator a sense of timing and acute observation, a passion for elegant ritual and the psychology mixed with physicality of a sport that is baffling to outsiders all contributed to making Sylvester one of the greatest art critics of his time.
But as Mr. Reid imbued standards with an acute intelligence and a passion guided by an unerring instinct for where to draw the line, the stalest subject in the world became refreshed.
But, given Nunn's acute understanding of unfulfilled passion, I am astonished at the anti-Chekhovian vulgarity of his first-act curtain: one that stages Konstantin's abortive suicide attempt and has peasants milling about to accompanying music as if this were 19th-century Lyceum melodrama.
He has prospered, I think, because he combines a love for the theatre of politics and human passion with an acute articulation of the singular performance.
His passion was so acute, his tales so dripping with fur juice that the juice from my own fur was splashin'!
That period of deprivation cemented a lifelong passion for television as acute as the diabetic's craving for chocolate, the smoker's need for a puff.
Today Stubbs's painting of the racehorse Whistlejacket hangs in the National Gallery near Wright's Experiment, and there is the same acute sense of natural history as passion, obsession.
He died on December 9 at the age of 91, his senses still sharp, his passion for writing still acute.
