Sentence examples for passion spent from inspiring English sources

Calm of mind all passion spent, as her third husband used to say so annoyingly after his Viagra sessions.

And: "they snuggled together happily for a bit, all passion spent; and she met him at Bulgari that lunchtime".

There won't be any clear, calm, imminent moment when, all passion spent, the Bun seems wholesome again.

But now there is a truly seerlike sense of passion spent, renunciation and surrender that invades his life both on and off the concert stage.

But the principal reflection about the SDP, 25 years on and most passion spent, must surely focus on the Social Democrats themselves, not on what might have been.

Observing the rules of the genre, Ford's play concludes with the lead characters lying in pools of their own blood, all passion spent.

His nephew, Roy, took over the project and made it his passion, spending nine years on its execution.

We take everything out of our cabinets, jettisoning cereal and corn chips; we attack the stove with a vengeance, the fridge with slightly less passion, spending long moments contemplating whether we can keep the strawberry jam or not, and some of us will even purge winter coat pockets of errant crumbs lodged in their folds.

It has fine, brassy climaxes and, in the end, a gentle diminuendo, in which the King, his passions spent, imagines building an observatory so that he can climb up next to the moon and "hear the one sound from which chaos is absent, which is the sound of the universe itself".

- Pursuing your passions: Spend time on whatever interests truly captivate you.

Powell's great subject is passion, in all its stages and manifestations: passion sought, spent, relived in the mind, played out in language.