The passion excited by the national team's inclusion in the World Cup finals is certainly a good omen.
What makes you feel happy, passion, excited, love?
I recently had a lovely conversation with Jacqueline Glass, about At The Well, and her passion excited me so much, that I look forward to volunteering for this amazing conference this year.
The refined passions excited by great movies (and the discovery of greats that are rare or obscure) are crucial to the future of the art, but with passion comes the danger of an inhibiting, obsessive devotion — a consuming passion, in both senses.
In the case of passions excited by confused sensations, the first three elements (the judgment, the inclination of the will, and the accompanying sensation) may be missing.
The passions that excited his first popular book, "Globalisation and its Discontents", published in 2002, have faded, he writes; calm now prevails.
Their owner, Butch Rivers, 70, a former stunt rider who now uses a cane — "You pay for it," he says of certain passions — is excited to see the play again.
But to see this flash out from the right, very suddenly, just brings home, I think, the incendiary nature of this, and how, when passions are excited about identity issues, conversation stops.
The very passion that excites football crowds (and once excited investors) often causes decisions to be taken on non-commercial grounds.
What makes football so damaging in English society is that our nationalism is at the moment so poisonous and corrupted that anything that excites nationalistic passions will excite anger and resentment far more than real pride.
Still, her comedy and social criticism, both on stage and in her widely read newspaper columns, have excited passions in the country.
