Passion provokes our physiology: Our hearts feel like opening and inner and outer realities converge and align.
On Friday, at an ecumenical service with Benedict, Archbishop Chrysostomos used strong language that reflected the passions provoked by the island's continued division, 36 years after a Turkish invasion that followed a pro-Greek coup attempt.
The passions provoked by the show — among both critics and admirers — suggest something both refreshing and a little startling: that a pop-culture product that focusses mostly on women and intimate, sometimes gruesome details of their lives, is still considered a provocation.
It is that, on a larger scale, unleashing the full storm of the passions provoked by the vicious or blind and unwitting injustices of today and the catastrophes soon to be unleashed upon the world would make civil society impossible, discredit us, and doom our causes within society as we know it.
Heat of passion refers to an immediate rage provoked by a victim that interferes with a defendant's ability to think clearly and control himself.
The bill has stirred divisive passions, provoking the biggest street demonstrations so far in François Hollande's presidency.Unmarried couples, gay or otherwise, can already enter a civil union in France, by becoming pacsé.
(Anyway, the Soviet dream and its attendant nightmares have passed more or less peacefully into history, along with the passions it provoked on all sides).
But "Skin Fruit" makes clear to me that his deepest passion is anger, provoked by situations over which he has no control.
Mr. Perry, a New York University graduate whose second feature, "The Color Wheel," provoked passion and puzzlement at several festivals, has a natural eye, an offbeat sense of rhythm and no great interest in conventional storytelling.
If regular old Hollywood melodrama, rendering bourgeois passions operatic, provokes chuckles even among its devotees, Bergman's infusion of middle-class anguish with metaphysical heights and existential depths risks unleashing a laugh riot.
