Here, we're back to constrained passions and unconstrained melodrama, with zero class A felonies.
René Descartes, for example, identifies the faculty of will with freedom of choice, "the ability to do or not do something" (Meditation IV), and even goes so far as to declare that "the will is by its nature so free that it can never be constrained" (Passions of the Soul, I, art. 41).
When none present themselves, we invent them at the bedroom door, and find reasons to constrain passion even when it comes at us, smiling and unconstrained.
In the separation of his life and thought, Burke is oppressed by debt and constrained by passion.
(The playwright as director? Hmmm....) But at least at the start, Mr. Shanley lays out his theme -- that passion must not be constrained from without, but tempered from within -- with brio and wit (2 10).
One of the best movies I've seen recently is Nagisa Oshima's last film, "Gohatto" (1999), about the stern codes of samurai warriors and the violent passions that those codes constrained — and about the political order that they defended, reinforced, or threatened.
Thomas is in love with Kit but, constrained by breeding and social expectation, is seeking a wife; their playlong faceoff -- between one man's passion and ultimate self-immolation and the other's stifling propriety -- establishes the play's thematic conflict.
That time it was "GOOD GAWD, THIS IS A MONSTER!!" and took from the recording a vindication of the sounds I was loving weren't pinned to any particular year and the emotive expressions that created such passions within me couldn't be constrained.
One is the Palestinian intifada, which has inflamed Muslim passions against Israel's American protector and constrained the superpower's freedom of manoeuvre.
Vimalakīrti, by contrast, explains how a bodhisattva is able to live in the world, engaging it fully, even to the point of partaking in its pleasures, passions, and defilements, without being attached to them, constrained by them, or corrupted by them.
