Sentence examples for ruling passion from inspiring English sources

Perhaps the ruling passion of his life was a need for violent stimulants.

How the new patriots can square their ruling passion with Britain's transparent inability to rule the waves is beyond me.

Almost everything else was subjugated to this ruling passion, reading stories.

It may be the one time in his life that Mr. Terkel's ruling passion failed him.

The rationale behind these shifting visions of childhood is akin to Renaissance theories of "humours" or "the ruling passion".

Did we believe Boris Johnson to be a scoundrel, or someone whose ruling passion was the love of his country?

David Foot quotes an unnamed cricketer saying that the two ruling passions of Hammond's life "were his cricket bat and his genitals".

Lewis had two ruling passions.

Irish history in general & American history from 1775 to 1800 are his ruling passions.

Balloon pants, cinched at the ankle, denim cutoffs and T-shirts dripping chains riff on her ruling passions and her Orange County roots.

But since Proust is another of McMurtry's ruling passions, future graduate students may note that in "Duane's Depressed" he not only introduces a catfish living in a motel waterbed but, as a cure for Duane's nervous breakdown, has a lady psychiatrist remorselessly prescribe a cover-to-cover reading of "Remembrance of Things Past".