Sentence examples for suppressed passion from inspiring English sources

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.

Take Pasternak's description of a moonlit night rich with suppressed passion.

But Hare, with great skill, shows that you can't legislate for love and that this odd couple are still bound together by a suppressed passion.

Late in life, Luchino Visconti, the poet of smoldering, suppressed passion among Italian aristocracy, planned a screen version of Proust's middle volume, "Sodom and Gommorah," but the work was never realized.

If "The Sports of Love" is a breezy romp, scenes between Krishna and Radha, his one true love, show barely suppressed passion on the boil, with the two mutually addicted lovers prowling the forest in search of each other, as nature itself succumbs to their heat.

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".

We've got to be able to talk about the most controversial subjects of our time and do it in a way that doesn't suppress passion but invites the full range of opinions.

This question -- how far can you go to suppress passion?