Sentence examples for impassioned act from inspiring English sources

Other times, he ignites their desire with an impassioned act, like throwing his glove in the dugout.

She reserved (and reserves) her greatest disdain for soap opera "drivel" and, inevitably perhaps, my addiction to daytime television became my most impassioned act of adolescent subversion.

After two excerpts from "Edgar," Puccini's second opera, another work in which the composer was finding his way, Ms. Villarroel and Mr. Armiliato gave their all to the impassioned Act II duet from "Manon Lescaut," Puccini's first truly great work, from 1893.

During challenging times and when impassioned to act, human beings can be capable of miracles.

Although she approaches AIDS as a humanitarian, she can be as impassioned as any Act Up provocateur.

She was impassioned in her Act III duet with Marcello and poignant in the final scene, ghostly pale, frail and believably consumptive.

Some of the finest passages in the book are impassioned definitions of the act of teaching.

The same dramatic tension takes hold in the impassioned second-act confrontation Williams hammered out between overbearing father and agitated son when Big Daddy engages with Brick about the homophobic underpinnings of that compulsive drinking.

The FISA Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Actt) Amendments Act, which Congress extended following weeks of fierce, impassioned a rushed single day of debate, allows federal agencies to listen to the phone calls and read the emails of American citizens' international communications (even that one day of debate, by the way, was hard won).

And two rock acts -- one a national institution, the other a younger, impassioned indie -- raised their voices in an attempt to rouse their fans out of their complacency.

We have collectively built them the reality that exists today: raised voices, impassioned pleas, science reports, media dispatches and countless, countless presentations, speeches, and films have yielded a clear impetus to act.