The possible allegorical significance of her name is happily not insisted upon, but her elusiveness and the intensity of Nasser-Ali's passion suggest that she represents an ideal image of the nation betrayed by the grim compromises of history.
On Thursday, a small group of protesters led by Assemblyman Dov Hikind, a Democrat from Brooklyn, gathered in front of News Corporation's Manhattan headquarters on the Avenue of the Americas to protest the release of "The Passion," suggesting that it would incite anti-Semitic violence.
Their passions suggested that opinions had only hardened in the three years since development plans were announced.
Fourteen years later, everyone is taking aim at War Emblem with a passion that suggests some trainers feel they must save racing from Baffert and the prince.
Miss Delaney owes a great deal to Frances Cuka, her ribald young heroine, who embraces the part with a shock-haired careless passion that suggests an embryonic Anna Magnani.
And she's just released a fancy election campaign-style video, entitled "Iowa passion", that suggests more than anything else she's done of late that she's about to jump into the race.
Her mouth twisting with repressed passion, she suggests something of an embryonic Margaret Thatcher determined to impose order on a disorder, ruthlessly tearing out her own heart to ensure survival in a cut-throat male world.
Acting is Andre 3000's passion, which suggests a certain flamboyance in the same way as Big Boi's devotion to his dogs indicates his down-to-earth nature.
At stop after stop, he has hammered away at the Republican Party, with a volume and passion that suggests he has come a long way from 1988, when he was known as one of the more lackluster candidates in a very lackluster field.
Mad with grief, Orfeo starts taking it out on womankind in general with a strange, disturbing march-like song, but he is saved from himself by Apollo, who chastises him for his excess of passion, then suggests that he join him upstairs, right now, to share eternal life in heaven.
