Mrs. DeLuca dies early in the film, leaving her passion for swing and taste in vintage clothes to her granddaughter, Tina Constance Brennemann).
The why and how of the changes become evident in the results, leaving the passion that drives them — a dissatisfaction that was religious in its intensity — to beggar understanding.
I heard it as someone leaving his passion behind with a final goodbye, saying everything he'd ever wanted to say, including calling out those who, he felt, had done everything in their power to stop him.
If life is a road towards authenticity, it may be like leaving your passion at highway marker 50.
Leaving their passions aside, what shocked me most was how deeply entrenched the myth has become for them that government stands in benign counterpoise to private enterprise.
Unlike a chemist or even other kinds of physicists, a high-energy theorist moving into the private sector usually has no choice but to leave their passion behind.
Urging the graduates to "honor Peter Cooper's legacy by opening doors for others," he said: "When you walk out these doors today, do not leave the passion you have shown for this institution and its past and its future behind.
Apart from the occasional weekend looking for fossils for fun, he left his passion behind and became an oil trader in the City, later running a marine consultancy business.
They see her, as Bay Buchanan (Pat's sister) put it in another recent Hillary-bashing book, as an "ardent feminist, anti-war activist and student radical" who "did not leave her passion for all things liberal behind on the campuses of Wellesley and Yale".
If Truffaut disguises his own experiences in the two couples' bourgeois simplicity (Bernard trains tanker captains, Mathilde's husband is an air-traffic controller), he leaves his passions fearsomely exposed.
