"But there is rarely in it a true creative force, passion, warmth and vivifying power, or even spontaneity.
Pitting refinement against sexual force, passion against affectation, continually skirting melodrama, it is daunting to direct in the theatre, not least because it culminates in a rape.
And because Wyler persuaded Davis — "persuaded" may be too mild a word — to mute her mannerisms, her every glance and movement seems to register with particular force, passion straining to burst free of its confinement.
My passion forced me to come face to face with others who were, basically, no different from me, even though they were wackos dressed up like Voldemort for a midnight screening.
Pursuing that passion forced Bernstein to overcome one obstacle after another, none more daunting than his father's scorn.
It isn't sex that's primal here – it's motherhood, rather, that takes Rosamund by storm and forces its passions and its extremes upon her, deepening her life irrecoverably, with no option of backing out.
I kept dreaming of the things I'd say when I met Stan again, before passion inevitably forced our hands.
We begin to question our purpose and act out of fear so we choose a career that is part passion, partly forced choice with a dash of financial security.
I omit Herbart's theory of the passions, but the upshot is similar: the force of passion is really the massed force of the representations themselves, as they work themselves up against an inhibiting obstacle.
A lot of the time, meaningful work becomes necessary work, and passions are forced to fade.
