Sentence examples for object of passion from inspiring English sources

He also shows how the sundry couplings constantly lead to remorse, regret, a puzzled tristesse or a brutal indifference to the object of passion.

In fact "the story" — whatever that may be — is the only real object of passion in the lives of any of these characters.

Frumpy, 40-ish, depressed about her flagging career, she's an odd object of passion for the emotionally stunted philistine played by Mr. Bacri.

Nor is romance missing, for true love is preferred to a hundred concubines, even if the object of passion has originally been bought as a slave.

Throughout its short life, the museum has been an object of passion for a small group of benefactors who have paid for its building and two additions and have bolstered its endowment and donated acquisition funds.

A sonnet is addressed to an indifferent object of passion; even if the actual lover warms up, the sonneteer can't become too easily complacent — a dark lady suddenly sunny produces no one's idea of a poem.

When you think of do-gooders, you might think of selfless nuns and missionaries like Mother Teresa and Albert Schweitzer, or philosophical rockers and objects of passion like Bono and Angelina Jolie.

But cars are still objects of passion, as much as they were a century ago when they were novel, ungainly and less efficient (and less reliable) than the horse.

I'll call them the lover fanboys, where the object of their passion can do no wrong, and the anything-but fanboys, where the object of their passion can do nothing right.

But Hume does not assume that sympathy produces exactly the same passion in us as we imagine in another, particularly because the transfer may alter the object of the passion.

Chocolate was both an object of her passion and the focus of her connoisseurship.