Sentence examples for overcome passion from inspiring English sources
The Dictionnaire itself cannot be interpreted except as stupendous testimony to the ability of an individual to overcome passion and prejudice and arrive at historical truth so much so that Bayle's historical method has been viewed by the literature as a form of Cartesianism, despite the Cartesians' own dismissal of history.
For their first few years together, Enrique is overcome with passion for Margaret.
She said that she was "overcome with passion" for the white canvas, a Madonna of the future.
On Tuesday Ms. Rindy's lawyer, playing the obvious French card, told a court in Marseille that she had been "overcome with passion".
Andrew Johnson In 2007 a painting by US artist Cy Twombly was smeared with lipstick after a woman, claiming to be "so overcome with passion", gave it a rather vigorous snog.
I can tell from his hesitation that he's fighting to overcome the passion with which he wants to ravish me, teaching me things about myself and my body that I never knew.
The journalist, Muntader al-Zaidi, had pleaded not guilty, saying at a hearing this month that he was overcome by passion because of the suffering of the people of Iraq after the American-led invasion six years ago that toppled Saddam Hussein.
As repentance is the greatest manifestation of human reason, it is necessary from the earliest moments to habituate oneself to overcome a passion which is practically always followed and which makes the bearer of it hated and despised" [MM, 359].
We have all experienced moments in life when we are so overcome with passion that we can't think of anything else we would rather do than spend our time doing what we love.
Cautious about drawing wider conclusions, they say their friendship illustrates how mortal enemies can overcome the passions of the past.
What the Bosnian outburst confirms is that one cannot genuinely overcome ethnic passions by imposing a liberal agenda: what brought the protesters together is a radical demand for justice.
