Sentence examples for complex passion from inspiring English sources

Envy is a complex passion.

This is not to reduce Kirstein's complex passion to the flatly Freudian.

Ted Hughes for the power of his language; Philip Roth for his work's complex passion and compassion; Louise Bourgeois for being sexy, playful, inventive and hopelessly human.

If Freud had met Moss 10 years earlier and portrayed her over and over again, if the intimacy that tattoo betokens became a complex passion between painter and model, then we could really say she inspired great art.

The Melancholy of Resistance, Satantango and Seiobo There Below are magnificent works of deep imagination and complex passions, in which the human comedy verges painfully onto transcendence.

"The Melancholy of Resistance, Satantango and Seiobo There Below are magnificent works of deep imagination and complex passions, in which the human comedy verges painfully on transcendence," said Warner.

El águila bicéfala, Gala's collection of meditations on the eternal riddle of love, prepared readers for his denser work, La pasión turca, which probed the complex passions of a middle-class Spanish woman driven to extremes by self-destructive love for a duplicitous Turk.

Joseph Cross registers the writer's complex asexual passion for Holly, and Dermot Crowley is outstanding as an equally infatuated barman.

The movie that he made next, "Gran Torino," is a film of grand and tragic paradox and of fierce, complex personal passion — the film in which he revisits the vigilante turn that made his day back in the seventies.

His writing has also become rather orotund and over-complex (his passion for words such as contingent, canonical, and, above all, maximal, is particularly maddening).

They both forged their names in works by Stephen Sondheim at his most complex: Ms. Murphy in "Passion" and Mr. Cerveris in the recent revivals of "Assassins" and "Sweeney Todd".