Sentence examples for control passions from inspiring English sources
That reason should control passions indicates that the desired state is for one part of us to rule the other, not for both parts, in Aristotle's words, to speak with the same voice.
Grotius acknowledged that one may develop emotional habits that support right action, but he thought this was a matter of having reason control passions and emotions so that they do not interfere with right action.
I admired some of the nearly out-of-control passions surrounding Siegfried's death and also forgave a lot of ragged ensemble work and vague accompaniments.
She made some telling points about the superficiality of Don Giovanni's out-of-control passions, and also discussed the hurtful way Lucia and her secret beloved are kept apart because of the hatred between their families, comparing it to the outside pressure on their lives that students feel today.
Often, despite set form and poetic artifice, there's a deeply controlled passion just below the surface.
· Laura Cumming is away THREE TO SEE EUAN UGLOW Controlled Passion Abbot Hall, Kendal until 11 October First major survey of this figurative painter's work since his death three years ago.
Descartes was also stoic, however, in his admonition that, rather than change the world, human beings should control their passions.
He radiates the frustrated energy of the ex-pro and wears the look of a man who sometimes struggles to control his passions.
The only way to control the passions flowing from religion to politics, and back again, was to detach political life from them completely.
Latinus is portrayed as a good man who is helpless to control the passions of his wife, Queen Amata, and Turnus, the rejected suitor for his daughter.
Control those passions There is a strange mental phenomenon that can overpower even the most serious-minded and conscientious employee when they embark on an affair with a colleague, and that is that they suffer a barely controllable urge to get down to having sex at work.
