Mr. Bush has long straddled that line, leaving the degree of passion he brings to the debate over abortion unclear.
But what won the day for [Demick's book] was the degree of passion around it – it really moved people".
"It couldn't recruit and retain staff with the right degree of passion and commitment for a very challenging intake," he said.
Whatever contract is finally hammered out could not dictate the degree of passion that producers put into Shakespeare, which may be crucial to success.
This, while true in some respects, does not fairly reflect the high degree of passion and political activism throughout our school community in pursuit of justice and inclusion.
Clearly, for all its formal elegance and unlikely plots, Baroque opera can still stir audiences to a surprising degree of passion.
Prowling through moldy basements or the stale-smelling racks of castoffs at the Salvation Army takes work and an unexpected degree of passion and also possibly a hand-hewn clothespin clipped to one's nose.
It's an interesting issue, and not one that other MSNBC talk shows have addressed with the same degree of passion, but it would have been helpful to viewers to also learn how proponents of voting restrictions justify the legislation.
Perhaps under different circumstances, Mr. Tikhonov, with his college degree and passion for history, might have become a conservative politician or joined the group of right-wing commentators who have become a force in Western Europe.
"The act of running a football into the waiting arms of 300-pound defensive tackles whose goal is to fling one to the turf time after time requires an extraordinary degree of passion and commitment," Steinberg said.
They wonder why the same degree of passion – the same willingness to take to the streets, to tweet night and day – is not stirred by, say, Russia, whose bombing of Syria killed at least 1,700 civilians; or the Assad regime itself, which has taken hundreds of thousands of Arab lives.
