Sentence examples for passion upon from inspiring English sources

Every author, from Jane Austen to Jackie Collins, sometimes needs to convey the effects of sexual passion upon fictional characters, for such effects change the course of human lives and reverberate upon everyone around them.

It is a judgment his prose style supports: "Shalamov holds himself in severe check as an artist", wrote Irving Howe, "he is simply intent, with a grey passion, upon exactitude".

I've watched so many matches over the years, Sevé [Ballesteros], Ollie [José María Olazábal], Colin [Montgomerie], Nick [ Faldo] all the guys – they just pour out passion upon passion in this event," the 34-year-old said.

She told a fellow congregant that she had been delayed by "the neglect of her servant to return home at the proper time", and said that Webster had "flown into a terrible passion" upon being rebuked.

He found his characters' passions within himself, took their passions upon himself, and then created, with an uncanny gift for impersonation, a set of gestures and inflections that embodied them.

In doing so, he joined a long and popular medical tradition treating the emotions, including Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) and William Falconer's A Dissertation on the Influence of the Passions upon the Disorders of the Body (1788).

How can we assure the next generation can find a job that meets their passions upon graduation?

It's an old story; one of Ford Madox Ford's characters called it the saddest story: masculine passion depends upon the urge to know a woman so completely as "to lose his identity, to be enveloped, to be supported".

"Wake when some vile thing is near," he says, and her passion fixes upon Bottom, "translated" by Puck with a magic spell that makes him half-human and half-donkey.

That closer-than-blood colleague who knows everything about your children and passions, who upon waking texts you bullet points for the board meeting and to whom you send status reports via BlackBerry before your head hits the pillow at night, the person you're more in touch and in sync with than the real husband or wife snoring next to you.

This usage was continued into the early 19th century by Cogan (1802), who insisted that the term "emotions" was properly applicable only to those "sensible changes and visible effects which particular passions produce upon the frame" (1802, pp. 7 8).