It's for this sense of possibility, and not for grim-faced dread, that people look to America, which is why the Obama campaign has stirred such global passions.
More recently, the Outsider Art movement has even further advanced Dubuffet's brutalist style to force us all to rip away the skin of formalism, to see, hear, feel the global passions that are engulfing us.
"It's a global food passion," as she put it.
Across the nation, too, belief in man-made global warming, and passion about doing something to arrest climate change, is not what it was five years or so ago, when Al Gore's movie had buzz and Elizabeth Kolbert's book about climate change, "Field Notes From a Catastrophe," was a best seller.
After Earl and Patty Mills lost their son Robert at the age of 26, they began searching for a special way to honor his outgoing personality, global perspective, and passion for space exploration.
No rational head of state would upset the harmonious workings of the global economy; nationalist passions would be tempered by "market realities".
There is no third to hear Hall explain how she's trying to "build a global community wth a passion for new British music".
McCann was selected for "a combination of creative energy, planning methodology, global capabilities and the passion of the team," said Eric Kim, vice president and co-director of the sales and marketing group at Intel in Santa Clara, Calif.
"So that when you tune in late at night for one hour, you are not alone -- and somehow, when you hear the words and you hear the music, for a moment you just feel connected to a kind of global universality of the passion of art".
