Sentence examples for let passions from inspiring English sources

David Brooks's April 10 column about the recent uprisings in Iraq exhorts us to "take a deep breath": "maybe it is time to pause, to let passions cool".

But if Mr. Cuomo becomes embroiled in a drawn-out, acrimonious budget fight with the Legislature — a distinct possibility — he would most likely seek to let passions cool before jumping into another contentious legislative battle.

For this generation, it is a first introduction since the guillotine had been hidden from public view for 25 years to let passions cool after the death penalty was abolished in 1981.

We've let passion overtake reason: the recipe for disaster in all the Greek and Shakespearean tragedies we read back in school.

With an international outlook, you'll have something extra to talk about with employers, says Star Surf's Khalaf: "Get yourself out there, seize and create opportunities, and let passion and love direct your future".

5. Let passion, not fear, drive your decisions.

Let passion empower you and redefine the world on your own terms.

In other words, let passion dictate the 86,400 seconds you share with the world each day.

And that's the advice I'd like to give a lot of my peers: Let passion be your guide.

For example, Wollstonecraft advises her readers to "calmly let passion subside into friendship" in the ideal companionate marriage (that is, in the ideal of a love-based marriage that was developing at the time).

"[D]o not let passion defeat you", his pamphlet advised, "ALONE, nor with a sexual friend.... Discipline in the single years, prepares us for the essential discipline of happy marriages".