Eventually she'd like to use her following to "give back" – she talks, with no less passion for the lack of specifics, about setting up some kind of charity.
When she appeared at a forum on affordable housing with other Democratic mayoral candidates at New York University last month, she emphasized her interest in expanding the range of options for the middle class but brought discernibly less passion to the matter of solving housing problems for the poor.
A Chicago-dwelling supporter of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, Hefner has a palpable passion for politics and, perhaps, slightly less passion for partying in the grotto at the Playboy Mansion.
Due to overcrowding and underfunding, nursing students in Colorado face the alternative of a career for which they have less passion or a wait of more than 3 years.
As Sarah – a Portuguese activist who lives in the UK and has been to demonstrations in France and Brazil – told me, "It just feels like there's less passion in the British culture of activism, and that the most energetic moments happen when there's confrontation".
"Many supporters stayed and many more will join now – people love a bandwagon – but a lot of the old-timers go less regularly and with less passion.
But, he added: "That doesn't mean there's less commitment, less passion, less love.
Titles mean less, passions mean more.
Without a vision as an artist, this Wright has no driving principle in his life, and the devotion of his followers seems less like the passion of artistic disciples than like the delusional worship of members of a cult.
Millions of hearts were breaking Tuesday, as Bernie Sanders delivered his long-expected endorsement of Hillary Clinton, with notably less enthusiasm than the passion of his usual stump speech that followed.
