Sentence examples for call passionate from inspiring English sources

Yet, while the lovemaking was not what you'd call passionate, it wasn't entirely businesslike, either.

We are in the throes of what researchers call passionate love, a state of intense longing, desire and attraction.

After his first moment of "madness" with Christabel La Motte (presumably he has, on impulse, kissed her during their secret meeting in Greenwich Park), he writes a letter which we could call passionate and romantic.

As Microsoft has learned time and time again, the gaming industry is just a tough spot, whether you're talking about wrangling the needs of developers in every country on Earth or dealing with what one might call "passionate" fans.

The Film Society of Lincoln Center is showcasing some of these films through May 17 in a program called "Passionate Stories, a Passion for Storytelling: Recent Argentine Cinema" at the Walter Reade Theater.

LAUREN FLANIGAN -- For Valentine's Day, with typical flair, the New York City Opera diva sings a recital called "Passionate Minds: Women Who Write About Love".

For the occasion she put together a program called "Passionate Minds: Women Write About Love": songs by female composers, ranging from the 19th century (Clara Schumann and Pauline Viardot) to today (Deborah Drattell and Tania Leon).

The first of three movements is called "Passionate Knights," and you have to assume, given the composer's recent musico-erotic fixations, that the title is a double-entendre: the more so since he puns in the note, "This was (one could say) a knight well spent".

Although Yeats constantly remade his style throughout his writing life, trimming off the finery of Victoriana, its frills and archaic reversals, to a modern, hard-edged style – what he called "passionate, normal speech" – his formal reading manner remained in the broadcasts he made a few years before his death.

Play scholar John Neulinger called passionate play pursuits none other than the "central life interest". Play brings you back to life -- your life.

That's why I jumped into the minister of public health, though everybody thought I was crazy -- though I call it passionate crazy.