You can taste Noah's passion, hear the echo of Jude's grief, and feel the words leap off the page and whip across your face like grains of sand in the wind.
On his visits to Africa Obama has spoken about human rights with a passion rarely heard from earlier US presidents.
Both in eastern Libya, where the revolt began, and in Tripoli in the final days, I was amazed by the passion I heard in people's voices.
"I think he has the passion, and hearing him speak he has a lot of compassion".
Citroën, whose business is based in Greenwood Village, Colo., ponders the comments and adds one more of her own: "I think for some people, the passion for hearing themselves talk is probably driven by a need to seem smart, but for us it comes from our willingness to help, share and inform.
"So it's exciting to let the public in and get to share our enthusiasm and our passion and hear what people are really excited about".
The first thing that boggled me when the show opened to its first challenge (committing the sin of passion) was hearing the dialogue spoken in English.
Literary critic Jacqueline Doyle has described Cisneros's passion for hearing the personal stories that people tell and her commitment to expressing the voices of marginalized people through her work, such as the "thousands of silent women" whose struggles are portrayed in The House on Mango Street.
I see them work with passion and I heard they are behind me.
When interviewed by Mr. Schmitz and Mr. Glass for this weekend's program, Mr. Daisey said, "I'm not going to say that I didn't take a few shortcuts in my passion to be heard.
He thought that China was so exotic and far away that it was uncheckable; that it was okay to take "a few shortcuts in my passion to be heard," as he put it in his follow-up interview.
