Sentence examples for romantic passions from inspiring English sources

In her autobiographical writings, Wharton skirted her youthful romantic history, saying, in "Life and I," "I inspired no romantic passions!

For comfort, she tells herself that, at her age, "romantic passions have grown weak, and the heart obeys reason".

Instead of vindicating the statist ideologies of the 20th century or the romantic passions of the 19th, they have embraced classic 18th-century humanism.

Just as Gozzi ridiculed what he thought pompous in his own time, Prokofiev, Stravinsky and a whole raft of Frenchmen were saying no to a century and a half of searing Romantic passions.

Unlike romantic passions, the pursuit that becomes a reason to get up in the morning doesn't appear across the room, setting your heart aflutter.

Degree of sexual and romantic passion.

In real life, few emotions are less sociable than romantic passion.

Yet in the real world, love is expected to mean more than romantic passion.

And ambivalence emerges as the most daunting enemy of romantic passion.

Nor did they express Porter's head-over-heels romantic passion and naughty sexual humor.

But he was also slightly charmless and lacking in romantic passion.