Sentence examples for capable of passion from inspiring English sources

Daniel, we learn, is capable of passion, but like Kennedy he is no sap.

The inmates of Hailsham become obsessed with the paintings that their art teacher periodically accepts for her "gallery", convinced that some can stave off their fate by proving to the authorities, through their paintings, that they are higher, nobler souls capable of passion.

I stand up, "So this ravishing Englishman was speaking, 'She went out on me and I stabbed her.' and I told my friend, 'he's capable of passion; designed for me".

With a dash of populism, it listed his horoscope (a Libra, "he is a communicative person capable of strong passion and deep love") and showcased his love of soccer.

The narrator of "A Heart So White" is capable of strong passion -- particularly in regard to his wife -- but we hear from him mainly about the passions of others.

Historically, its citizens have also been capable of great passion, especially in matters royal or religious.

To extinguish the life that made these paintings is to cut short someone capable of beauty, passion – all the things we are all capable of.

And then he deepens the joke: the banal Francesca, with her little volume of Hermann Hesse and her tinkling amorous clichés, turns out to be capable of genuine passion and heartbreak.

He recalled his wonder on seeing Ms. Taylor in "A Place in the Sun" in 1951 and realizing that a young woman so close to his age was capable of such passion.

Admiring American girls for their bodies, Fowler insists to himself that they could not possibly be capable of "untidy passion". He has contempt for their bright vacuousness; yet Phuong, the comely Vietnamese, the only person in the world who means anything in his life, shows few qualities beyond self-interested compliance.

'Fiction films are more dependent on documentaries for their subject matter,' he says, 'while documentaries have successfully adopted the strong plots and characters of traditional Hollywood.' At Sundance each year, you can see how documentaries are capable of arousing passion among audiences more used to watching fiction.