Both served as examples of Ryan's passion; despite opposite circumstances, tears of joy in Texas and tears of something worse this week.
Passion for Perfume, opposite, is already shuttered, stripped and dark; it went into administration on 5 January and is now closed.
While those most affected are "women of a delicate habit," (a milk and vegetable diet and "cold bathing" are prescribed), Dr. Buchan does offer this warning about mass hysteria: "When hysteric fits are accompanied by sympathy [in its old sense meaning shared feelings by many], they may be cured by exciting the opposite passion".
War and sexual passion are not opposites: they are in the same business, two parts of the same pincer attack on the sanity of the individual.
But I'll take passion over whatever the opposite of passion is".
If the Silicon Valley hackers' willingness to flit between ideas suggests a lack of passion, Shark Tank highlights the opposite extreme: blind and unswerving faith in a dream without seeking evidence of market demand.
But the reality is quite the opposite; creativity, passion and Arts Council money having worked together to produce a trail that – with perhaps one notable exception – really does grow all the more enriching the further you travel along it.
Work engagement is a fairly new term in occupational psychology circles: It's basically defined as a healthy, positive passion for work — the opposite of the stereotypical uninterested slacker who slides by doing as little as possible throughout the day.
In a marketplace disrupted by globalization, deregulation, knowledge work and new technology, firms now required initiative, innovation, commitment, smarts, passion--the very opposite of wage-slaves.
My passion is to connect opposites such as virtual and real, invisible and visible, nature and technology.
