Sentence examples for illicit passion from inspiring English sources

A few weeks or months of illicit passion could not hold a candle to it.

All the elements for tragedy are present in Freedom: war, rage, grief, jealousy, hubris, vengeance, illicit passion.

Wagner conceived an illicit passion for Mathilde Wesendonck, wife of one of his patrons, Otto Wesendonck, in Zürich in 1854.

Was it Tolstoy with his capacious vision of illicit passion and the comi-tragedy of marriage, both salvation and prison?

It was an Oscar-winning film lauded for its sensitive portrayal of two lovelorn cowboys and their illicit passion in America's homophobic Midwest.

In All for Love the moral is all too clear: Antony must choose between the path of honour and his illicit passion for Cleopatra.

Thus aberrations are contained, just as strong illicit passions are accommodated.

The company's current production of "Phèdre," Racine's tragedy about a Grecian queen's illicit passions, underscores the problem.

In short, illicit passions inflamed the hearts of at least some of the Pilgrims, even in the first two decades of settlement.

(The Dickinsons, Emily included, were never quite as proper as they seemed; beneath their clannish façade of stiff-necked gentility roiled a soap opera of mad scenes, quarrels, and illicit passions. All of them, Wineapple writes, "loved with greedy ardor").

Ulrichs might also have mentioned Wagner, who, in "Die Walküre" and "Tristan und Isolde," depicted illicit passions that many late-nineteenth-century homosexuals saw as allegories for their own experience.