Sentence examples for its passion for from inspiring English sources

As Bordo argues, the mark of Cartesianism is not so much its claims to neutral objectivity as it is its "passion for intellectual separation, demarcation, and order" (1987, 77, emphasis in original).

Call it "rococo," call it "baroque" in its passion for ornamentation and its uninhibited excess.

Dallas hasn't lost its passion for getting it right — this is still a city where a fashion stylist can be described in a news story, without irony, as an "avowed minimalist" — but the earnestness that can easily be mistaken for pretension has softened.

It is unconquerable only in its passion for the game, but the flames of that passion burn fiercely, bringing delight and recriminations, success and failure.

"Camp" may be rickety, formulaic and overacted, but it's frequently hilarious, and its passion for its subject is irresistible (Stephen Holden).

The Novoye Russoye Slovo (New Russian Word), which is the leading paper in Brighton Beach, is distinctively Russian, with its passion for long opinion pieces, but it lacks the flair of the best Moscow papers.

Or France, which out-did the British in its passion for colonialism (think how much violence it took to kick them out of Indochina and Algeria, long after World War II).

So education is necessary in order to help people distinguish the essential differences between things, but she argues that it is also necessary in order to counter the development of unhelpful associations, and to train the mind to curb its passions, for Macaulay is heavily influenced by the associationist psychology of Edward Hartley, Joseph Priestley and Jonathan Edwards.

The world, it seemed, reserved its gustatory passion for things like single-cru soft-filtered olive oil, 100-year-old balsamic vinegar, rare and exquisite Japanese sake, single-malt whisky, fine port and so forth.

Its appeal also has something to do with its unabashed passion for the city of their birth (Keys is from Manhattan, Jay from Brooklyn) – something British pop stars might feel slightly silly about expressing in an epic ballad.

AMERICA'S love affair with the automobile has nearly been matched by its newfound passion for smartphones.