Sentence examples for prevailing passion from inspiring English sources

If the cerebral and the dramatic found common ground in Mr. Sheng's Bach and Schubert, the prevailing passion in his Chopin, to which he devoted the second half of his program, was impetuousness.

They were egged on by finds from bookshops' bargain basements, amassing tomes on Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Charles Moore, the unfashionable giants of postmodernism who had been erased from 90s curricular by the prevailing passion for beige.

That's because of the characters; though Soderbergh's direction keeps them ricocheting through the episodes on the fuel of melodramatic hokum, there's a prevailing passion at the heart of the story's heroes — a passion for medicine — that overrides and outruns the personal dramas.

Envy and impotent desires are their prevailing passions … they forget the common appellation of things, and the names of persons, even of those who are their nearest friends and relations.

Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] the prevailing windSIR – Passion is the root problem in what you term "the modern argument over climate change" ("A heated debate", November 28th).

Prevailing over all of this is a passion, which is never a bad thing".

In general, our actions are motivated by our prevailing desires, which can be generated by either the affections or the passions of various senses.

Perhaps the prevailing climate mattered.

Is that the prevailing view?

The voters are prevailing.

And, at present, quantity is prevailing.