Sentence examples for class passion from inspiring English sources

Harry Kewell showed more than enough class, passion and condition in his career swansong on Saturday to suggest that his retirement is premature.

He had already published books on the saving of Ragley Hall near Alcester, Warwickshire, by the seventh Marquess of Hertford, on Parian ware – about the white substance that enabled the middle classes to echo the upper class passion for marble statues (a passion he understood as a devoted collector) – and, in Fresh Start (1990), about people who changed their careers in mid-life.

The New Zealand Herald Lydia Jenkin thought the collection represented a standard Pink Martini concert set list by including a variety of sounds, languages and vocalists, each delivered with "class, passion and subtlety".

The Obama campaign team, in the spin room after the debate, focused on repeating the theme that, as Axelrod said, Biden showed "passion" and that he showed "a great concern for the middle class". Passion was the thing Obama lacked last week, and Romney surprised the president and Democrats by talking constantly about how his policies would help the middle class.

Zweig dug into our "phlegmatic national character" through the study (and practice) of gardening, that cross-class passion via which "the English earn their solidarity".

"In bed and out, he was unbeatable company," Ben's inamorata, a female pilot, thinks of him, "bright as a mint silver dollar... a first-class passion ration".

According to their sneering critique, their fellow fans are dilettantes without any real understanding of the game; they are yuppies who admire soccer like a fine slab of imported goat cheese; they come from neighborhoods with spectacularly high Starbucks-per-capita, so they lack any semblance of burning working-class passion".

"We're honest, friendly, down-to-earth brewers who deliver world-class passion in a glass," he said.

The Gazette also aroused working-class passions by sponsoring world championships in everything from wood chopping to water drinking, and it featured the exploits of pugilist John L. Sullivan and the feats of Louis Cyr and Katie Sandwina, billed as the world's strongest man and world's strongest woman, respectively.

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

The British upper class's passion for Italy has been invincible, even at the time of World War II.