Sentence examples for brief passion from inspiring English sources

Shame at killing such lovely things, but also thankful that I was able to discover the natural world for myself through my brief passion for Lepidoptera.

A love short lived, a brief passion.

Aldo takes his young daughter, leaving behind her mother (Alida Valli), and travels in search of employment, or peace of mind; he finds little of either, relying instead on the brief passions ignited by an old flame (Betsy Blair), the owner of a gas station (the splendidly named Dorian Gray), and a prostitute (Lyn Shaw) who ekes out her existence in a leaking shack.

Perhaps his signature role was that of a handsome, dissolute jewel thief, redeemed by his brief, ethereal passion for Greta Garbo in the sumptuous M-G-M melodrama "Grand Hotel".

His life has been a series of abortive episodes that are not quite adventures – his marriage into the Khoja family; his brief, uncomprehending passion for photography; his liaisons with Doreen; the drive into the country during one such liaison, into obscure villages named after places in India (Bengal, Calcutta); the throwing of a disastrous Christmas party; the garden and the avocado tree.

And for all its pure-dance veneer, the ballet resonates with echoes of memory, solitude, brief-lived passion and abandon.

These are the Ludus breviter de Passione ("Play in Brief of the Passion"), a prologue to a Resurrection play, and a longer text, probably amplified from a play on St. Mary Magdalene's life and the raising of Lazarus.

Without any of the physical explicitness you sometimes find in modern productions, Dench simply conveys the ecstasy and ardour of a brief, if misplaced, passion.

After their brief moment of passion, Ryan had to leave to go take care of her son.

*Names have been changed.

The extramarital passion in "Brief Encounter" is never consummated.