Nothing kills the passion quite like a self-inflicted defeat.
(a) He invoked the names of Rosa Parks, Lech Walesa, and Martin Luther King, Jr., to convey the depths of his "passion" to kill the A.C.A.
Tom Denari, the president of Young & Laramore, says one of his passions is to "kill" the traditional focus group.
This situation frustrates her, but does not kill her passion for the sport.
Rape, coercion, harassment, the man who edits his sexual history and thinks safe sex kills passion, the obscene phone call that is no longer amusing because you're not in the dorm anymore but living by yourself in a not so safe neighborhood and it's three in the morning: it's not very hard to understand why women sometimes sound rather grim about relations between the sexes.
"I didn't want school to kill his passion," she said.
"Repressed women like stuff about being further repressed," says Rosemary Daniell, the author of "Fatal Flowers: On Sin, Sex and Suicide in the Deep South .Religious conservatism need not kill passion.
Fashion really does kill passion, especially in a piece like 'Tristan und Isolde.' " Mr. Thomas added that he was accustomed to being booed and said that in certain circumstances, like a controversial production of Wagner's "Flying Dutchman" that he mounted at the Teatro Municipal in 1987, he even preferred that to applause.
In the meantime of course many other worthy movies will arrive in theaters as the Oscar contenders drift away, movies like (let me check the calendar) "Starsky and Hutch," "Scooby-Doo 2" and the sequels to "Kill Bill Vol. 1" and "The Passion of the Christ".
P5 How box sets are killing off passion.
