It has helped him register and mobilize passionate supporters intent on substituting unapologetic socialism for politics as usual.
There are artists who like to sequester themselves in their studios and tune out the world, and then there is Jorge Colombo, a modern-day version of Baudelaire's flâneur: a "passionate spectator," intent on observing the urban landscape.
While I gained a wealth of insights into leadership, entrepreneurship and social enterprise (which I'll include in future blogs and Forbes columns), what was even more valuable was the experience itself - being surrounded by passionate people intent on making a meaningful contribution in the world.
This Is Not a Film is a compelling personal document, a quietly passionate statement of artistic intent, and an uncompromising testament to his belief in cinema.
So imagine my horror when I picked up a copy of Gail Sheehy's new book, "Sex and the Seasoned Woman: Pursuing the Passionate Life," which seems intent on shaming women like me -- or, at least, the kind of woman I hope to be when I am a "golden girl".
Get passionate about passion.
He was a great artist in his own right: his watercolours of Swiss mountains and nature studies speak of an extraordinary brilliance, made more passionate by their creator's intent.
The correct construction of the law on provocation as it then stood was that the intent to kill arose out of a passionate loss of control and provocative conduct directly linked to that loss of control.
A columnist for that broadsheet, Michael Gove, now a Tory candidate, has accused her of being a "passionate, committed and effective supporter of the Trotskyist Socialist Alliance", an organisation intent on "destabilising the props of the establishment".
I admit theatre is rapidly changing, but passionate advocates of the devised play assume that democratising the work process automatically leads to work of radical intent.
