So where, I wonder aloud, does all this amorous conflict leave us after the hostile passion subsides?
It's a story about longing, about getting what you want and having to live with that as the delirious, half-crazed passion subsides.
For example, Wollstonecraft advises her readers to "calmly let passion subside into friendship" in the ideal companionate marriage (that is, in the ideal of a love-based marriage that was developing at the time).
Toby stays with Deary long after passion has subsided, mostly to make "reparations to the moral universe," and mulls over love's stages in his ubiquitous red-speckled notebooks.
"I've just had a little baby girl," Hatton, his eyes still moist and his passion barely subsided, told BBC Sport after his turn on the dais.
I understand why some couples see it as the only way two gay men can remain together once that initial burst of sexual passion has subsided.
What the public needs from all this is some assurance that once the passions have subsided, Mr. Griffin will look closely at whether he is losing anything valuable through his streamlining of the advisory structure.
Once your passions have subsided and you can approach your next big thing with a clear and confident mind, attack with abandon.
As the Wisconsin Supreme Court suggested, the right to trial before an impartial jury can be protected in many ways: by granting a continuance until community passions subside; by challenging jurors for cause and by peremptory challenges during voir dire proceedings.
Normally, the election of a new president is a moment when everyone takes a deep breath, partisan passions subside a little, and the incoming president enjoys at least a few weeks to implement his stated promises.
