Born in Jerusalem and raised partly in Egypt, Said passionately identified as a Palestinian.
Nureyev's favourites were the tuneful, accessible Konstantin Balmont and the more erudite and ornate Valery Bryusov; the young dancer passionately identified with their technical virtuosity, musicality and approach to art as divine revelation.
As in so many of Williams's plays, Fisher and Addie are the poignant manifestations of the restless dreamers and poets with whom he passionately identified: wayward moths fluttering unsteadily toward a light glimpsed through the windows of the prisons in which they find themselves alone and misunderstood.
Both identify passionately with the nation, tending to fuse their personality with that of the nation.
Considering those words now over tea and biscuits in Toronto, Mr. Ignatieff said, "There are moments when I've identified passionately with America, and there are moments of total recoil".
Mr. Guédiguian, who made a splash three years ago with his warm-hearted working-class love story "Marius and Jeanette," identifies passionately with the workers, and his movies tend to feature the same company of actors.
Stephen King, reading it for the first time, "identified passionately" with Ralph, the would-be parliamentarian who wields the conch and tries to maintain order, as against the predatory Jack, who bedaubs himself with warpaint and leads the orgies of pig-killing.
He identifies passionately with Seurat in his rigorously analytic approach to colour and design and painstaking attention to detail; even the accusation made against Seurat - "no life in his art, no life in his life"- is one constantly levelled by the Broadway crowd against the composer.
Millions of American high school and college students identified passionately with the novel's 16-year-old hero, Holden Caulfield, whose blend of innocence and disillusion make him appear a version of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, translated from the American heartland to New York City, and from the simplicity of the 1840s to the anxieties of the modern era.
Just identify a group of people with passionately held beliefs, poke them in the face and wait.
