In a 15-minute speech, Lee passionately recounted how he got his start as a film student at New York University, where he is now a tenured film professor.
It was a remarkably cynical speech, full of passionately uttered half-truths and lies.
You quote a professor as saying there is a "whiff of McCarthyism," but we say free speech should be "passionately defended".
During her primary night speech, she spoke passionately about paid family leave, health care, social security and equal pay, but a few male pundits could only focus on policing her face and tone.
In his speeches, Kim talks passionately about the bank's ability to "catalyse" and "leverage" the world to action by mobilising money and ideas, and he says he is hunting for ideas "equal to the challenge" of curbing carbon use.
Sheikh Taysir Tamimi, the chief Islamic justice, interrupted an interfaith discourse with a passionately political speech.On the whole, however, the pope's words to the Palestinians avoided pitfalls.
At the convention, where he delivered the keynote speech, Mr. Burrell preached passionately of the button-lipped traditions that he then practiced.
Jeanine Molloff, a speech pathologist from St Louis, passionately called on Occupiers to work for universal healthcare and education, explaining that her 49-year-old brother "died a hideous death last year, and I think the system murdered him".
In a remarkable November speech at Georgetown University, Bernie Sanders passionately articulated the rationale for his candidacy by saying, "We need to develop a political movement which, once again, is prepared to take on and defeat a ruling class whose greed is destroying our nation".
When a group of backbenchers had risen up to demand a referendum on Britain's EU membership, the prime minister's passionately pro-European speech (delivered alongside Richard Branson in Birmingham) had been powerful enough to turn the media against them.
