It came perilously close to the Saturday Night Live lampoon with Anne Hathaway as a sobbing-horny-bonkers Carrie that's currently doing the internet rounds, but if the mark of authentic passion is that it can transcend ridicule then it can only be a matter of time before they're back in the sack, and to hell with what happened to General Petraeus.
Didn't this have all the marks of a crime of passion?
Every detail that emerges about Lars von Trier's "Nymphomaniac" seems more salacious than the last, and the latest from the highly anticipated film may top them all: A new photo featuring Shia LaBeouf and Stacy Martin engaged in a heated act of passion marks the most graphic image we've seen from the movie to date.
"Politics of Passion" is marked by a stark imbalance of acting talent.
These renditions, by Andrew Manze's superb English Concert, are marked by a delicate balance of passion and poise.
PARK CITY, Utah — Thirty years ago "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was riding high at the box office, and American independent filmmaking was still an anomalous pursuit rather than a community, a recognized passion, a mark of cool.
Home to Moorish monuments, fine art, flamenco, endless festivals and the world's largest Gothic cathedral, Seville is a city of passion where matadors and cantadors still make their mark.
In general, early modern philosophers tended to prefer their emotions calm, but took turbulence to mark only certain kinds of passions.
The Stoic idea of "first movements," those physical stirrings that marked the onset of a passion, was sometimes referred to with the phrase "first emotions of passion," as it was in a sermon preached before the queen of England in 1711 on the subject of "The government of passion" and also in Fielding's 1749 novel The History of Tom Jones Clarkee, 1738, p. 426; Fielding, 1749, Vol. 2, p. 306).
