Sentence examples for excited passions from inspiring English sources
Still, her comedy and social criticism, both on stage and in her widely read newspaper columns, have excited passions in the country.
The Cergy mosque, still at least two years from realization, has already excited passions and led one local opposition politician to warn that its minarets might rise higher than the town's church steeples.
At this point, the recent political phenom Paul most resembles may be one from the other party — former Vermont governor Howard Dean, also a doctor, whose briefly front-running 2004 Democratic presidential campaign excited passions and threatened to upend the establishment, but ultimately crumbled to make way for a more conventional nominee.
Following his lead, the Republican high command soon understood that waving the red flag of "limousine liberalism" excited passions and elicited votes.
Instead, analysts and activists say the forces that brought people to the streets in Tunisia and excited passions across the Middle East are far more fundamental and unifying: concrete demands to end government corruption, institute the rule of law and ease economic suffering.
They encourage a lazy rhetorical shorthand, which only excites passions and precludes charity (much as "socialist" might in US politics).
If there is one subject that excites passions in Belize, it is the subject of the secretive Tory peer, who has been a dominant presence in the little Central American country for over two decades.
Thus "morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions" (T 3.1.1.6/457).
A second further conclusion is that morality (fundamental moral principles) cannot be grounded in reason; this one follows both from his views about the "inertness" of reason generally, and from his assumption that morality is capable of motivating people: "Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions.
"But though her face was beautiful, her person was not formed to excite passion.
They threatened with excommunication anybody who prayed with "heretics"—a word which often, in practice, meant the losing side in whichever theological argument had just shaken the Christian world.The issue still excites passion.
