Sentence examples for repressed passion from inspiring English sources
The phrase "repressed passion" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe feelings of strong emotion or desire that are suppressed or held back. Example: "Her repressed passion for art finally emerged when she attended the gallery opening."
But its completely wordless chorus also gave the world its first chance to hear a voice that could conceivably pierce concrete one minute, sound fit to burst with joy the next and snarl with barely repressed passion in between.
All of this leads to depression, anxiety, an unfulfilled life and repressed passion.
The conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin Nézet-Séguin hollow pomp of royal obligations and the simmering of repressed passion, but entrusts the drama's human dimension to the singers.
Now, in Peter Webber's movie adaptation, which opens Dec. 12 in New York and Los Angeles, it is Scarlett Johansson's Griet who is stirring the repressed passion of Colin Firth's Vermeer.
Her mouth twisting with repressed passion, she suggests something of an embryonic Margaret Thatcher determined to impose order on a disorder, ruthlessly tearing out her own heart to ensure survival in a cut-throat male world.
Osipova's performance is studded with other fine details: the helpless gaze with which she fixates on Onegin; the shivering, almost queasy excitement with which she writes her misguided love letter; the eerie, almost convalescent calm of her relations with her husband, Gremin, and the awful physical pain when she encounters Onegin, and is forced to feel, again, her long repressed passion for him.
Here they uncover a strange tale of love, religious bigotry, jealousy and repressed passions.
It is an elegant, unique rendition of the samurai genre, centred on the declared and repressed passions between warriors at a training school.
And Ms. Mirren has offered trenchant studies in the weaponry of unadulterated vanity (Turgenev's "Month in the Country") and repressed passions unloosed (Tennessee Williams's "Orpheus Descending"), not to mention the ever-cool canniness she brought to "Prime Suspect" on television.
The one great animating idea of Eliot's poetry, Mr. Raine persuasively argues in these pages, is the theme of the "Buried Life, the idea of a life not fully lived," a life of missed opportunities, repressed passions, forsaken loves — the same theme, of course, that lies at the core of so much of Henry James's work, from "The Beast in the Jungle" to "Washington Square".
The film, based on a short story by David Constantine, is composed with rigour and exactitude and performed with a repressed, heartfelt passion.
