Sentence examples for passionate feud from inspiring English sources
The race to represent the South Bronx is a passionate feud between two strong borough Democratic factions as well as an intense competition between two of the borough's best-known political families.
In addition, the Dreyfus affair resulting from the false charge against a Jewish officer, Alfred Dreyfus, of spying for the Germans erupted in the last years of the century, and the slurs or outright insults aimed at Jews that accompanied it opened Durkheim's eyes to the latent hatred and passionate feuds hitherto concealed under the varnish of civilization.
It is hard now to grasp the cultural authority that the code of passionate honor — with its elaborate rituals of feuds and duels — seemed to give the South in that period.
The feud between Sarris, the unconditional auteurist, and Kael, who questioned the notion of auteurship, had passionate supporters on either side.
The former are amenable to compromises that subserve their ends, the latter are passionate and ultra-democratic to the extent, often, of making themselves unelectable because of splits and feuds.
The program notes revisited the feud between Brahms and Wagner -- a musical battle that now seems distant and almost incomprehensible compared with the more understandably passionate disputes between supporters of Minimalism and Serialism.
