Sentence examples for simmering passion from inspiring English sources
(Kehr) WOUNDED PRIDE, SIMMERING PASSION: ROBERTO GAVALDÓN (Friday through Thursday) One of the key directors of the Mexican cinema's golden age, Roberto Gavaldón worked in a wide variety of genres but specialized in thrillers, often collaborating with established writers like B. Traven and José Revueltas.
However, "such moments are overshadowed by simmering passions, a shapely heroine and dark elements likely to upset".
Though he enjoyed the design aspect of architecture, a different passion was simmering.
The officers were acquitted of criminal charges in Mr. Diallo's death last year in a state trial that was moved to Albany to escape the public anger and political passions still simmering in New York City.
Jake Arnott's hypnotic, feverish and altogether wonderful Johnny Come Home - his first novel after the brilliant Long Firm trilogy - embraces the unfashionable idea that perhaps real passion simmered behind the platform shoes and glitter make-up; that beneath the enervating malaise was a vital, electrifying anger.
There are some fine performances; a sharp, ruefully witty translation by Christopher Hampton; but this is a solidly traditional production that feels (as yet) a bit stiff and unlived-in and fails to impart a sufficiently strong impression of the thwarted passion that is simmering under the listlessness.
Perhaps it is a creative passion that has been simmering, but never brought to surface, or maybe a talent that will now begin to bloom.
In long-term relationships where the initial passion has simmered down, it's not about the result, it's about the pleasure.
Yet despite the meager prize, passions have only grown on both sides and are likely to continue simmering in anticipation of the court's ruling sometime next month.
