Bell commands opaque respect from the Bedouins and incites a doomed, suppressed passion in British men: an unfortunate repeat pattern of disaster which the movie leaves tactfully unexamined.
Danny Boyle's delirious dreamscape wove together pageantry, pastoral, pain and pride to create a new vision of nationhood – a supremely fresh portrait of that special mixture of enduring tolerance and suppressed passion that has always underlined our national identity.
Apparently, I had unleashed suppressed passions among the early morning tea drinkers.
The lions and the tigers, being natural enemies, anger and hate being always suppressed, the arena is a hotbed of suppressed passions.
Sang-froid has its place, especially during a crisis; but so does Sigmund Freud, who described the potential downside of suppressed passions.
Peter Schjeldahl has written, in this magazine, "Neshat's elegant, two-screen meditations on the culture of the chador in Islamic Iran emit an icy heat of suppressed passions; they are among the first undoubtable masterpieces of video installation".
Society progresses to the extent that reason can suppress the passions.
As described by The Russian Primary Chronicle, he favoured the solitary life, marked by superhuman efforts to suppress human passions in a demon-haunted world.
Given the intense pressure coming not only from an angry public, but also from its own hawkish generals, the Chinese government may fear a backlash if it attempts to suppress such passions.
