Sentence examples for inordinate passion from inspiring English sources

Both in real life and in Marlowe's tragedy, Edward, though married and a father, displayed an inordinate passion for his friend Piers Gaveston.

Since this gentleman had an inordinate passion for wine, I did not believe him when he whispered to me (during a bel canto opera) that the instrument he was playing was a gift from Benito Mussolini.

Vigny grew up in Paris and took preparatory studies for the École Polytechnique at the Lycée Bonaparte, where he conceived an "inordinate love for the glory of bearing arms," a passion common to the young men of his generation.

In their old bed, "if passion returned they burst out laughing"; they take typically inordinate pleasure in their young grandson, Manny.

It must also be said that though the instrumentalists took what seemed an inordinate amount of time to tune up before each part of the Passion, there were some inexplicable lapses with shaky intonation.

"AN INORDINATE fondness for beetles".

It's an inordinate form".

The inordinate delays impose heavy tolls.

Were they under inordinate stress?

Teams concentrate inordinate attention on him.

Her pride in us was inordinate, nonetheless.