Few wild animals stoke higher passions than whales.
While he agreed with Plato's notion of a tripartite soul, Razi often spoke of three souls, the rational or divine one enlisting the higher passions of the animal soul to control the base appetites of the vegetative soul.[10] Following Hellenistic tradition, he locates the vegetative soul in the liver, the animal soul in the heart and the rational soul in the brain.
He discovered his highest passions pursuing the principles of leadership, innovation, creativity, integrity, and dignity and respect for all.
This is a subject that provokes high passions, particularly when the cells in question are drawn from human embryos.
Naturally, these questions arouse high passions, and when they do their connection with underlying social values is quickly obscured.
In a race turning in large part on personality, both candidates are universally known by their first names, and both provoke high passions, for and against.
Either Side of Winter by Benjamin Markovits 235pp, Faber, £10.99 A father is telling his daughter about his early relationship with her mother, who'd had to abort another man's child: "Such high passions she had, what a talent for suffering.
"La Muette" is considered the founding text of the grand-opera genre, in which high passions play out against a portentous historical backdrop, with an eclectic barrage of folkish airs, local-color dances, bellowing choruses, and thumping marches supplying a you-are-there sensation.
The choice is never an easy one: parochial or class-conscious or national groups may be aroused to the highest passions; and they are numerous and diverse and often highly incompatible with one another and with the imperatives of the nation or the world.
The dispute stirs high passions here, and the BBC, like other news organizations, has struggled uneasily for years to strike a balance, even as some critics claim it has tilted heavily toward Israel and others claim it has favored the Palestinians.
The big seller, of course – if one discounts the tsunami of erotica flowing from the pens of EL James and imitators – was JK Rowling's The Casual Vacancy (Little, Brown), a wizard-free saga about high passions and low deeds in a parish council election that reads like a mash-up between Jonathan Coe and Joanna Trollope.
