Get passionate about passion.
Gingrich, the recently embattled, always controversial and irascible former speaker of the House from Georgia, had just watched a massive crowd inside the convention center respond to him with a passionate standing ovation after his confrontation with one of the debate's moderators.
So many sabotage themselves by writing once-in-a-lifetime confessions, life-or-death emotional confrontations and supposedly passionate fight scenes, knowing their work is probably going to be staged in tiny theaters with relatively inexperienced actors.
The dispute has swelled into a nationwide confrontation, with small demonstrations at mosques and passionate outcries on the Internet.
Its lack of serious political confrontation — not necessarily radical activism, but maybe passionate rationalism, as seen, for instance, in Frederick Wiseman's "At Berkeley" — leaves its sympathetic viewers thinking that their sympathy is enough, that the mere existence of the film, and their enthusiasm for it, is a mark of social progress.
The justices' language was occasionally passionate, reflecting their awareness of the historic nature of this confrontation between executive and judicial authority.
The weekend protests were passionate, but demonstrators and the police showed admirable restraint in avoiding physical confrontation.
When the movement that became known as Occupy Wall Street took over Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan in September 2011, the next two months unfolded in a staccato of rallies, passionate appeals for more-direct democracy, marches that sometimes led to noisy confrontations with the police — and arrests.
Neither of us is equipped with the ruthless temperament necessary for that kind of confrontation, and I do still care for her, not in a sensual, passionate way, but I don't want to see her hurt.
Ms. Houston's 2009 interview with Ms. Winfrey portrayed it as a passionate and then turbulent marriage, marred by drug use and by his professional jealousy, psychological abuse and physical confrontations.
