Sentence examples for contained passion from inspiring English sources

Guyer is equally energetic but quiet and studious-looking, and has a more contained passion for his specialty.

Mr. Swanson, who performed with Trisha Brown for 10 years, creates dances that have been aptly described as "art of chiseled forms and contained passion".

It isn't merely the homespun wisdom and lofty spiritual ideas that inform her singsongs, or the barely contained passion she imbues into every word.

It is the constant pursuit of small pleasures which keeps Americans from disorder and mob rule, which is their life-affirming passion: The love of well-being shows itself to be a tenacious, exclusive, universal, but contained passion.

Only at a distance is the other abstract enough to remind us of infinity" (p. 25)—indeed, a "barely contained passion for otherness, exit, and transcendence runs through Levinas" (p. 40).

Her infidelity, Mahler's therapy suggests, brings out the contained passions of these two troubled souls; their romance contains an exquisitely fatal flaw.

He divides the world neatly into professional corners--this summer found him shuttling between New York, Paris, Rome, Riyadh, Los Angeles, and Columbus, Ohio--and has the fastidiously appointed look of a man who contains passion the way he wears a pocket handkerchief.

But the work of art must contain "passion".

Though the novel contains love and passion: "Subliminally or unconsciously, everything in the book became about one thing: separations.

Henman had contained his passion, allowing himself the odd softly-muttered remonstration.

7) But Keira cannot contain the passion she feels for Aaron, and their affair is consummated in an unusually well-lit room.