He was always a class act, and as he stands on stage forgoing his guitar, passionately presenting his songs with intense capacity, it is a spellbinding concert experience.
Wallace's desire to write "morally passionate, passionately moral fiction," as he put it in a 1996 essay on Dostoyevsky, presented him with a number of problems.
Long-time admirer Jon Ronson made a documentary about him called I Am, Unfortunately, Randy Newman, which championed his cause so passionately it risked presenting Newman as a charity case.
Whatever the sources of their fervor, the zealots are dangerous anachronisms, whose willingness to kill and die for their passionately held convictions presents a constant danger to a fragile peace process.
Her attention seemed to be fixed passionately — almost unreasonably — upon the present.
I feel rather passionately about writing about the present — I'm dismayed sometimes by the tide of novels being published now that are set in the past.
Remember though, a little bit of nerves is good, it will help you to present excitedly and passionately.
"Words are not action and as beautifully presented and as passionately felt as they are, they are not action," Mrs. Clinton said.
But in his failed 1994 race for Ted Kennedy's Senate seat, he presented himself as passionately pro-choice, citing the 1963 death from illegal abortion of a relative.
Warren has hitherto insisted she is not running for president herself, but spoke out passionately against the "cromnibus" and presents a growing challenge to what her supporters dismissively call the Wall Street wing of the party and its figurehead: Hillary Clinton.
