Mr. Shannon's Astrov speaks in a tone of flat weariness as the play begins, even when elaborating his passion for saving the Russian forest.
In the world of "The Plains," which both is and isn't Australia, the plain people and their plain speech also serve to conceal things—elaborate rituals, cosmologies, obscure passions, arcane knowledge.
Yet Ray lavishes as much passion on the elaborate backstory and on a strange medical subplot, suggesting that the evil doings on which the plot runs are, essentially, not failings but maladies awaiting treatment of their underlying causes.
As modernity arrives — with a rising middle class, a dwindling aristocracy, electrical appliances, world war, and women's suffrage — some cling to the elaborate old order with a passion bordering on perversity.
He elaborated on what inspired his passion.
Book II, "Of the Passions," describes an elaborate psychological machinery to explain the affective, or emotional, order in humans and assigns a subordinate role to reason in this mechanism.
Only after that was he able to take up again his childhood passion for astronomy and elaborate his cloud classifications.
In keeping with the code of the club, they anaesthetised their lives with elaborate jokes, pink gin, and a passion for cricket.
Mr. Wing-Davey also directed the more elaborate and well-funded productions of "Passion Play" at the Goodman Theater in Chicago in 2007 and at the Yale Repertory Theater in 2008.
Betsy West, a winner of multiple Emmy awards, elaborates: ""Will back bone and a passion for what they do, they pushed forward to pursue their dreams".
