Sentence examples for grande passion from inspiring English sources
noun
An overwhelming love affair or infatuation for someone.
The Japanese are passionate about sweets, as in a grande passion.
He tried acting, appearing in small roles in "La Grande Passion" (1928), a silent film, and René Barberis's "Casanova" (1934).
Warhol's "Grande Passion," created in 1984 for an ad campaign for Grand Passion cognac, was owned by the museum and had a value of about $15,000.
"Oh, I do love you ever so much, Nick," Natasha replied, but my father is making me wait a year and I'm bound to have developed une grande passion for the inside of Anatole's trousers by then".
Speaking either in a warble or a whine and rather easily moved to tears of guilt or pleading, Ms. Alexander plays her less as a grande dame brought down by her own passions than as something of a randy housewife caught halfway between shame at her adultery and pert defiance.
The great humanist landmarks of film history are hardly in fashion: "Ikiru," "Umberto D," the Apu trilogy by Satyajit Ray, Ozu pictures, "The Passion of Jeanne d'Arc" by Carl Dreyer, Renoir's "Grande Illusion," the films of Dovzhenko, Chaplin even.
Of course most of that passion is directed toward his pointillist masterpiece, Un Dimanche Après-Midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte, particularly that tricky chapeau.
The Grande Day Parade, from 2 to 4 30 p.m. on Jan . 27 signals the beginning of the carnival's yearly passion play in which Vulcanus Rex, representing spring, battles winter's King Boreas for the city's future.
