The phrase "almost passionately" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a feeling or action that is close to being passionate but not entirely so, often conveying a sense of intensity that is slightly restrained.
Example: "She spoke about her love for painting almost passionately, her eyes sparkling with enthusiasm."
Alternatives: "nearly fervently" or "borderline passionately".
Her attention seemed to be fixed passionately — almost unreasonably — upon the present.
Richter, at almost 80, is passionately drawn to the experiences of the eye and the light that makes everything visible.
After the 2013 National Convening in Boston, the LTC Steering Committee grew to almost fifty practitioners passionately working on initiatives all over the country.
Why should my poems not imitate my life?" Louise Glück writes passionately, almost maniacally, in THE SEVEN AGES (Ecco/ HarperCollins, $23), her ninth book of poems.
Here was a man who has spent a large portion of his career avoiding the media talking both longingly and passionately, almost as if he did not want the tapes to stop rolling and the flash bulbs to fade.
We both played cello in the orchestra, and I remember the way he would drape his body over the instrument, like he was protecting it, bowing it passionately, almost theatrically, even though he wasn't particularly good.
Almost subconsciously, she passionately longs after something undefinable.
The idea that two people who used to have sex all the time now find it almost ridiculous to kiss passionately, undress each other erotically, touch each other intimately — this metacomedy is the mainspring of the plot.
Nye was certainly a colourful and controversial figure – storming out of the cabinet in 1951, expelled from the Labour party once, and almost a second time; passionately in love with his wife, Jennie Lee, a Labour heroine in her own right; a vocal critic of Winston Churchill, Ernie Bevin, the Daily Mirror, Tory "vermin" – and pretty much everyone else at some point in his career.
Almost anyone who has passionately rode a skateboard during the past couple of decades know his work on classic Transworld Skateboarding videos such like Feedback (1999) andModus Operandi (2000).
