Even impetuous Marianne and Willoughby do not declare passion for each other.
I remember (for nothing is forgot by lovers) the time and place in which you first declared your passion and swore you would love me till death.
It was on that bench that Vronsky and Anna declared their passion for each other.
Wood's hidden talent seemed no more relevant to his work as a book reviewer than would be the case if John Carey suddenly declared a passion for yodelling, or Michiko Kakutani whipped out a set of bagpipes.
Speaking the day after last week's huge march in Paris (in which he stood with world leaders and declared his passion for free speech), he posed a question: "In our country, do we want to allow a means of communication between people which, even in extremis, with a signed warrant from the Home Secretary personally, we cannot read?
Reflecting the intense debate preceding the canonization, the bishops did not proclaim the Romanovs as "martyrs," or those who died specifically for their Christian convictions, but instead declared them "passion bearers," a category used to identify believers who, in imitation of Christ, endured suffering and death at the hands of political enemies.
But it's likely that Dodgson declared his passion as openly as he could, and that his hope that he might be able to make that love legitimate was not nearly so unrealistic in its day as it may seem now.
Pollyanna also went on to declare her passion for social justice, a passion that didn't quite extend to revealing whether all her family tax affairs were onshore.
Ms. Hill's songs repeatedly declared her love and passion -- "red hot and no blues" -- above music that had more power chords than steel-guitar glides.
It was Tosca declaring her passion for the painter Cavaradossi, singing "I have lived for love, I have lived for Art".
