Always passionate, sometimes informed".
Although the ancients did write prose fiction (invariably featuring passionate but virtuous lovers being put through a succession of ordeals), the classical genre with the biggest influence on the modern novel has been that of history.
Italo Calvino's Letters: 1941-1985 (Princeton Press) and Collection of Sand: Essays (Penguin Modern Classics) remind us of a type of writerly mind almost extinct in Anglo-America: worldly, invariably curious, quietly passionate and elegant.
Such border crossings are common inside the pages of Film Comment, a citadel of intellectually committed, aesthetically adventurous, sometimes prickly, sometimes maddening, sometimes baffling, if invariably lively and passionate cinephilia that is published bimonthly by the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
Get passionate about passion.
Rather, it's that they are invariably made by people who are passionate about their subject.
If a man begins a speech, as Muhammad Yunus invariably does, preaching the 'firm, deep, passionate' belief that 'we can create a world free of poverty', you might find yourself admiring the sentiment, but doubting the man.
'Poetic' Pianist His piano performances have been invariably reviewed as "breathtaking," "highly individual," "passionate" and "poetic," as befits the music of the composers he chooses to play, particularly Liszt, Chopin and Rachmaninoff.
However, the variable invariably overlooked by the imaginative and passionate ed-tech crowd is human nature itself.
