The good news is that the demands of Strindberg's plays are particularly well suited to American acting tradition, where the inside of character is stressed, requiring a commitment to honesty that is essential in maneuvering his passionate landscapes.
This notion -- of tears as shaming, infantile and disgusting, emotion as something to be stifled -- informs much of contemporary literature, and has produced a strange post-passionate landscape, sere and bleak.
Downing was passionate about landscape gardening, and even more so about its edifying possibilities.
We think that most people are passionate about landscape, as a source of inspiration, as a setting for the production of food or as daily surroundings.
The Brontës were passionate about the landscape, and the moorland hugely influenced the writing of all three sisters.
Mrs. Gore also became increasingly passionate about her landscape and portrait photography, which, until recently, she had been selling at stores owned by her friends Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams.
Sutherland brought together his passionate sense of landscape and modern awareness of violence in paintings of bomb damage during the Blitz.
His work is the antithesis of almost every contemporary notion of what a poet should be producing: incalculably learned, forbiddingly allusive, dauntingly complex, fiercely passionate about English landscape and history, and with what looks like a suspiciously un-left-wing set of political and religious beliefs.
And now Mr Moore has written an excellent account of the campaign full of passionate scientists, wild landscapes and exquisite pictures of these luminous creatures that for once are getting the attention they deserve.
I am so passionate about ink landscaping because it shows very rich emotions by means of simple forms".
Its completion summed up all the energy, all the heroism and all the passionate drive across the landscape that so characterized late 19th-century America".
