Sentence examples for principal passion from inspiring English sources
Morley makes the point that, like Coward, Gielgud's principal passion was the stage; both men had casual dalliances, but were more comfortable with "low-maintenance" long-term partners who did not impede their theatrical work and ambitions.
The art of Linda Lieff Altabef combines her two principal passions: painting and textile design.
Boredom and frustration — the dissatisfaction of any one of the 12 principal "passions" — become the cardinal sins of this society and the root of all evil.
Chemistry awakening: By fate, Blum discovered her life's two principal passions at Reed College in Oregon.
Call +86 21 6355 999 for details Introduced by the British in the 1840s, horseracing remains the principal sporting passion in Hong Kong.
When I was in ninth grade, back in 1970, we finished our geometry textbook six weeks before the end of the school year and spent the final grading period studying our math teacher's principal extracurricular passion, which was bridge.
His principal subject was passion, which he explored in various configurations.
The principal effect of the passions is to "move and dispose the soul to want the things for which they prepare the body" (AT XI 359, CSM I 343).
In the little preface which Rodenbach wrote to explain the inclusion of photographs in the book, he describes Hugues's story as "a study of passion" whose "other principal aim" is the evocation of a Town, not merely as a backdrop, but as an "essential character, associated with states of mind, counselling, dissuading, inducing the hero to act".
For that initial impulse to become a stage play — with its plot, subplots and the passions of four principal characters who have aged past almost everything except their love for the music and their history with one another — took nearly eight years.
The passions operate in a common manner: "the principal effect of all the human passions is that they move and dispose the soul to want the things for which they prepare the body".
