Gaming the system for racial advantage was not the singular, continuous, consuming passion for most Southerners; but slavery had warped the Southern political system from the start, and race forever lurked in the background of Southern political life.
When I asked Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger how he was able to land a commercial aircraft safely in the Hudson River, he described his passion for continuous learning.
Although I work with a variety of the large wild mammals found in Canada, studying polar bears has been a continuous thread and particular passion throughout my 20-year research career.
Over the course of her career, during which she rose from staff nurse to CEO, Colleen McKeown says she took advantage of every seminar, pamphlet, training session and mentoring opportunity she happened upon: "You have to have a passion about continuous development.
His quote "The best Ferrari is a car I have not yet created" shows his passion for continuous improvement.
Stella is dispossessed, but she has in her lover Robert, a Dunkirk survivor, someone with whom she can share mutual passion and "the continuous narrative of love".
"But there is also a continuous line of hard work, passion, naive enjoyment and a ridiculous work ethic.
One gets the sense that Burnett and Downey were stealing continuous backward glances at Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ in editing this portion of the movie.
(Passion, commitment, a "maniacal attention to detail", and an emphasis on continuous improvement of every aspect of the business also helped, as did spectacular amounts of Fiat's money).
Humans have always had a passion for the highest levels of creativity, which may have an affect on continuous development of the human civilization.
