Sentence examples for terrible passion from inspiring English sources

Still, Ewing expected to be made a scapegoat by Kansas politicians, "a burnt offering to satisfy the just and terrible passion of the people".

"A Mercy" has neither the terrible passion of "Beloved" — how many times can we ask a writer to go to such a place?

"The idea was that in every fine home of every apparently successful person, there was living some secret life, that hiding beneath the surface was some terrible passion or infidelity.

She told a fellow congregant that she had been delayed by "the neglect of her servant to return home at the proper time", and said that Webster had "flown into a terrible passion" upon being rebuked.

Beneath this unlikely exterior raged terrible passions.

In Emily Brontë's novel, the introduction of this foundling stirs a brew of terrible passions.

When Mr. Walsh spoke about the emotionalism in the work, he quoted the artist, "I have tried to express the terrible passions of humanity".

And to make it sexy, to make people slow dance to this song about a nonce and his terrible passions, it's a good trick".

It certainly was not lost on anybody in attendance at the glitzy Sheraton hotel in Doha, cuddled beside the Persian Gulf, that a war raged 700 miles away and that terrible passions were broiling there and around the world.

The mystic likens her longing to be one with God to a powerful erotic longing for relief from her "terrible and painful" passion.

According to Cassel, it was "a terrible, destructive passion".