Soccer fans, for example, have no problem generating passion for the Champions League, the annual club competition whose staggered schedule makes it an on-again, off-again point of passion during the long European season.
So when we talk about introducing a new generation of fans, they're being introduced through their point of passion.
They have a genuine interest, to the point of passion, and will often spend crazy hours working in their labs.
AFTER adding up the scores following the first and only vice-presidential debate of the 2012 election, Lexington has declared a draw.The event saw the incumbent, Joe Biden, score points for passion, clarity (most of the time) and a strange, hybrid sort of scrappy, fist-flailing elder statesman's condescension that (much of the time) was pretty effective.
They are growing a number of micro/niche brands, he said, and leveraging what he calls "passion points" of small but passionate audiences.
Harold Rosenbaum and his 16 intrepid singers tried at points to rouse this music to the point of human passion, but it did not work.
The centre point of my passion is a philosophy that I instil into my staff, into the school and into every school I support.
Google cites the 1939 World's Fair 'Futurama' ride for GM as the inception point of the passion for self-driving vehicles, but the self-driving car project kicked off at Google in 2009 under Sebastian Thrun, with an initial focus on the relatively uncomplicated (but still monumental) task of negotiating freeways.
Evidence that a homophobic hate crime has taken place is rarely found and some police officers and journalists instead point to "crime of passion" killings — such as that of 65-year-old British diplomat John Terry, said by Jamaican authorities to have been murdered by a younger lover in 2009 after the relationship turned sour — to back up their claims of gay-on-gay violence.
"The high points of Juliet's passion and happiness are very real, and if you play that too enthusiastically, the years drop away".
