City council meetings are pretty mind-numbingly mundane events, but every once in a while, tempers flare, passions run hot, and a concerned citizen launches into a fervent speech about legalizing happy endings or whatever.
Mr. Kirchner's Second Quartet, a knotty piece flaring with passion, replaced the Piano Quintet by Mr. Goehr, which will have to await Mr. Serkin's return to action.
But Mr. Esparza, whose parentage is Cuban, was the only one who infused the songs with a fiery theatrical intensity and nostril-flaring passion.
On the floor of the Senate last week, during the immigration debate, there were passions flaring on both sides.
(Claudia La Rocco) 'Lost on the Natchez Trace' (closes on Sunday) A play about a wounded slave auctioneer whose life suddenly rests in the hands of the slave he just sold should crackle and flare with fury, passion, vengeance, despair.
Sally Dexter's Gertrude, while speaking the verse with a steady intelligence, flares with passion, anxiety, delusion and drugs: her hair has escaped from its bonds; she wears a wedding dress – white with crossed laces – that is slightly too young for her; she is constantly rubbing her skirt, pushing away a stray lock.
When passions flare, Cillian Murphy and Helen McCrory's accents pogo from Belfast to the Wirral with barely a nod to Birmingham.
As passions flared, protesters climbed on top of barriers before police reinforcements arrived in large vans and the demonstrators were driven back across the road.
Partisan passions flared in 1998, when the House voted to impeach President Bill Clinton, and again in 2000, when the Supreme Court stepped in to settle the outcome of the presidential contest between George W. Bush and Al Gore.
This may be the outcome in the short term, as passions flare in response to what most Jordanians view as a vicious act on the part of ISIS.
That has given the well-financed and heavily favored Cuomo candidacy a herky-jerky quality: Like Mr. Cuomo, it is cautious, endlessly deliberative and intensely secretive, though flaring with bursts of sudden action and genuine passion.
