In the Bernstein, an urbane portrait of a crumbling contemporary marriage, love is a spent passion that barely exists at all, except in memory and fantasy.
The film's themes of regret, spent passion and misdirected desire show the influence of Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey's ambassador to the international festival circuit, but its creative energy resides in the way it captures nature.
The federal regulators, however, have spent their passion trying to preempt state efforts to protect borrowers.
Calm of mind all passion spent, as her third husband used to say so annoyingly after his Viagra sessions.
And: "they snuggled together happily for a bit, all passion spent; and she met him at Bulgari that lunchtime".
There won't be any clear, calm, imminent moment when, all passion spent, the Bun seems wholesome again.
But now there is a truly seerlike sense of passion spent, renunciation and surrender that invades his life both on and off the concert stage.
But the principal reflection about the SDP, 25 years on and most passion spent, must surely focus on the Social Democrats themselves, not on what might have been.
Observing the rules of the genre, Ford's play concludes with the lead characters lying in pools of their own blood, all passion spent.
As one story line pays off – in a climax of passion or a violent breakdown – others must steadily build, in a cycle that will go on until the whole show ends, all passion spent, the last handbell rung.
Hence, I'm firmly of the belief that your youth should be spent pursuing your passion — not just slightly, tremulously, haltingly, but unrelentingly, with a vengeance, to the max and then beyond.
