Kitty Dukakis tried to dispel her husband's reputation as a robotic calculating machine by dubbing him her "passionate partner"; now Tipper loyally boasts about the sexual tiger lurking within her own besuited automaton.
"What she's really on to is the terrible myth in our society, whereby we tell children that they are the primary source of love, and the cruel truth is that they're not: the passionate partner is.
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We were going to have rocket careers, and happy kids, and passionate, supportive partners.
The myth is that overpowering a woman will convert her into a passionate sex partner.
Human capital, in the form of passionate and energetic partners and a dynamic executive director to run our program.
Shankar and his partners, passionate about hacking more than anything else, "realized that while our product was interesting and the interface was cool, at the end of day, we didn't really care about shopping.
Eliot was profoundly adroit at charting the intricacies of desire and revulsion in her novels, and in her life she knew what it was to live in fulfilled, enduring intimacy with a passionate and loving partner.
The program concluded with a terrific rendition of Dvorak's popular Piano Quartet in A (Op. 81), with Mr. Serkin a passionate and sensitive partner to the fine playing of the strings.
