They miss the days when the mere mention of "free silver" or "Remember the Maine" or "Save Checkers" set passions quivering.
Ms Merkel and Mr Steinmeier both exuding sobriety and competence, but hardly setting passions alight have governed together in a "grand coalition" for the past four years, which gives their contest the feel of sibling rivalry.
In the end, I went with Jordan in part because I admired her writing and thought she would bring an unusual skill set and passion to the trip.
Of his predecessor and former antagonist, Senator Paul Wellstone, Mr. Coleman added: "His legacy will be the standard he set for passion and energy.
In this picture, the face of the actor personified by West is set in passion, a dangerous and unwieldy promise of pain to come, even as Bonham Carter looks happy and trusting beside him.
Set human passions against a backdrop of war and invasion, like solitary figures standing in front of a city in flames, and you have box-office gold.
In an interview last week, Mr. Blumenthal took nearly 10 minutes to answer a question about why, aside from personal ambition, he wanted to be a senator, using much of that time to say why the job of attorney general had been a "perfect fit" for his skill set and passions.
Today, as a market leader, Zynga has a chance to transform its culture so that it is about something more sustainable: the company's unique ideas, set of passions, and purpose.
"Empire of Passion," set in 1895, concerns an adulterous love affair that is haunted by the ghost of the murdered husband.
Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's musical "Passion," set in 19th-century Italy, tells an unlikely love story: Giorgio, a young army captain with a beautiful mistress, is changed by the obsessive love that Fosca, an invalid he meets while serving at a mountain outpost, has for him.
