Attempting to draw a line over years of destructive in-fighting within the Coalition that has cruelled various emissions reduction policies, the prime minister will use a speech in Melbourne on Monday to launch a new package of measures on climate change, saying his government acknowledges and accepts the challenge "but we do so with cool heads, not just impassioned hearts".
The gift is that these young, impassioned hearts refuse to be calloused and will put their lives on the line to see change NOW.
Allow me to begin with a confession: I had no idea that Ed Begley Jr., an actor whose near constant presence on television doesn't swing his curriculum vitae easily into recollection, is at heart an impassioned conservationist.
PRESIDENT OBAMA'S eloquent endorsement on Friday of a planned Islamic cultural center near the World Trade Center, followed by his apparent retreat the next day, was just one of many paradoxes at the heart of the increasingly impassioned controversy.
Entrepreneurial at heart and a team player recognized for impassioned approach and colorful ideas.
It's the same cyclical pattern of cries for change, new laws and impassioned speeches, hand-wringing and heart-wrenching, and all of those things, and then in the end, you know people end up in the same place".
When a subject is so close to the presenter's heart that it is indivisible from it, the result is impassioned but not impartial.
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When I feel in my heart that a cause is true, I am able to look into my child's eyes and deliver an impassioned plea for even the most difficult choices.
So impassioned labor unions draw smiles and promises from Democratic candidates, while Baptist and evangelical groups make Republican hearts flutter.
