Politics and strategy, however, were the governing passions of his life.
Greed, spite and antisemitism jostle for position as the governing passions among this crowd.
Not only is Paul's second blockbusting action thriller about to be released, but his brother, respected academic Mark Greengrass of Sheffield University, is to launch another work of some significance: a study of peace and reform in France between 1576 and 1585, entitled Governing Passions.
Rather, the just individual is someone whose soul is guided by a vision of the Good, someone in whom reason governs passion and ambition through such a vision.
Preachers and theologians, as well as secular moralists, most often found themselves discoursing on these subjects in order to demonstrate the importance of governing the passions and cultivating the affections.
These tensions, both secret and destructive, govern sexual passion and convention, and the possibility of happiness.
But anyone who read him or knew him understood that in his appraisal of architecture, and of the powers that made it possible, Herbert Muschamp was governed by passion.
He is a Governor that governs his Passions, and he a Servant that serves them.
More perceptive viewers will wonder why Childs, one of the team's key role players, put himself on the suspended list with the Atlantic Division title still undecided, why he still can't govern his passions after all these years.
Riley's road warriors walked away with the most significant victory in franchise history and brought the series back to Miami for Game 7. As big as that victory was, the Heat must deal with the fact that most observers not working for Riley believe the series was handed to them the day the Knicks could not govern their passions in Game 5.
