Sentence examples for single passion from inspiring English sources

This is a much thinner book than the others, but it concentrates on a single passion.

Luzhin is taken with the possibility of getting outside of himself and his single passion, chess.

A single passion still consumed him-to capture one of the impure spirits and imprison it in a cage, kept in his attic.

"From the age of five, everything I felt in connection with a rectangle of framed sunlight was dominated by a single passion.

A single passion still… The narrator, an 11 year old Polish Jew, living in War saw just before WWI, overhears Tzeitel, the wife of Selig the tailor, tell his… Harry Bendiner is an 82-yr.-old millionaire who lives in a condominium in Miami Beach.

So that when the static conception of the complaint has been finally brought into light (I do not mean by this to depreciate the sustained magnificence of its crescendo but to praise the singleness of its idea), a whole succession of feelings about the local scenery, the whole way in which it is taken for granted, has been enlisted into sorrow and beats as a single passion of the mind".

Cricket is their country's single shared passion.

But poetry remained his single great passion, the art to which he would return again and again.

MIXED reactions greeted the news in February that a man had edited thousands of Wikipedia articles with a single, special passion.

Under the umbrella of the May 23 Movement, reformers were able to engineer President Mohammad Khatami's landslide upset in 1997 and to win a broad victory in last year's municipal elections because they were driven by a single common passion: enmity toward the hard-line fundamentalist clergy.

Go see it; single!" My passion was baseball, I was good and I loved the game.