She's a fierce, self-thwarting, "unpretty woman," solitary but passionate, someone who might boast that she'd change the locks on her front door and "the tracks underneath the train" to keep a bad man away, but who would fling open her door, heart racing, if she heard his truck roll up the gravel drive.
"Having been in touch with Jack so recently, and associating him with worthy policy debates, it was almost impossible to register a news story that began 'Body was found in a landfill.' " Mr. Fallows described Mr. Wheeler as "a very passionate person, someone who threw himself fully into things he cared about," and said his most significant accomplishment was pushing through the memorial wall.
"I'll always take the person who is volunteering and being passionate versus someone who is being paid," Mr. Mulgrew said.
It was during that honeymoon period, when you're really passionate about someone, and that energy was apparent to some people to the point where someone even commented on it.
But of all the names on the list, I think I feel most passionate about someone who was not a slugger or a pitcher, but an insurance executive.
The market, too, is passionate – when someone pays out millions for a painting it is not a sombre investment but an act of love and self-discovery: a way to say who you are and what you believe in.
Anecdotally, the PhD students I know who struggle most with their work are those who are recruited onto projects already running – it's harder to feel passionate about someone else's work.
Favorite Halloween candy is a topic we always forget people get so passionate about, until someone disagrees with someone else's favorite and all hell breaks loose.
Being around someone passionate helps us to be more passionate and engaged in our own life, so we are naturally drawn to people like this and want them in our life more.
She wrote a passionate memo that someone leaked, to embarrass her.
It's a universal question, whether you're a professional cook, a passionate amateur or someone with enough interest to want to avoid ordering takeout every night.
