Sentence examples for clashing passions from inspiring English sources

The clashing passions on immigration particularly worried him.

With his grandly clashing passions — and with his extravagant images, scripts, and, for that matter, performances (starting with his own) — Welles is the most Shakespearean figure in the history of cinema.

Amid this class clash, passion erupts between David and Linda.

Now she's Santuzza in David McVicar's new production of "Cavalleria Rusticana"; the violent clash between passion and tradition in Mascagni's opera should be an ideal showcase for her searing expressivity.

It's in the realm of priorities and perspective where we find World Cup passions clashing with the values of religion.

As one of this country's most probing and subtle playwrights ("Goodnight Children Everywhere," "Sweet and Sad") and as a director of his own work, Mr. Nelson has provided lovingly assembled showcases for such friction, in which people's exactly detailed exteriors clash with their passions and aspirations.

Shriver uses alternating chapters to explore the clashing notions of passion and stability.

Or you could observe that even a chimpanzee knows that passions clash fiercely when something important is at stake.

In Los Angeles, a fashionable restaurant that hosted a special eight-course foie gras dinner was picketed by animal rights activists, offering a clash of competing passions.

With all its gluttonous excess, and with the backdrop of the animal rights protesters, the sold-out dinner became the fattiest of food as political protest, offering a clash of competing passions in a battle that has reverberated across the nation but finally settled here, the first state in the nation to criminalize the sale of foie gras, the fattened liver of a goose or a duck.

McCain begins his speech by reprising the conditions prevailing before World War II: "beggar-thy-neighbor protectionism and the poverty that imposed"; "a world order [fracturing] into clashing ethnic and nationalist passions"; a failure of deterrence followed by catastrophic conflict.