To write about it, and not be tainted with scandal, the critic had to subdue all passion, don gloves and a muzzle and fill his mouth with pebbles.
Imagination comes to the rescue, creating Love, who subdues the Passions and brings life into happy balance.
In order to rise from their lower, selfish nature into an unselfish, spiritual nature, the society taught, everyone should obey the law of their being and subdue passions and impulses that control them by nature.
With the passion subdued, my career and... business is going well.
He was something that had to be contained, complimented, condescended to, and, finally, co-opted, relegated at the Convention to subduing the passions of his followers.
From the moment kids are asked to subdue their passions in order to get straight As to the time they arrive at a company and are asked to work 70 hours a week climbing the ladder, people have an incentive to suppress their passions and prune their souls.
As for the speeches themselves, they are processed by speechwriters and pollsters until all texture is buffed out, effrontery elided and passion solemnly subdued.
In 1793, when they had been married for almost 30 years, Abigail commented that time subdued "the ardor of passion" and left in its place a deep-rooted, enduring "friendship and affection".
