Sentence examples for violent passion from inspiring English sources

Return, then, to brace for the bloody, violent passion.

But Peter was soon attracted to the beautiful Inês, and a violent passion sprang up between them.

Ferrante captures the complexity of both female friendship and the fiery (and often violent) passion of Naples so brilliantly".

In Kabuki there can be moments of realism but also whole episodes of mime and acrobatics; there can be moments of slapstick but also moments of violent passion.

In March 1872, while tormented by violent passion, jealousy, and guilt and in a state of physical dissolution, Rimbaud returned to Charleville so that Verlaine could attempt a reconciliation with his wife.

The cold, calculating nature of murder by poisoning, as opposed to the violent passion implicit in a stabbing or strangulation, is precisely suited to propelling plots in which any one of the characters could be the culprit, all the way until the very end.

Johnson says it means "a man of violent passions".

The rivalries & antagonisms engendered by ancient disputes have continued to arouse violent passions.

And "Miss Wood has a beauty and radiance that carry her through a role of violent passions and depressions with unsullied purity and strength".

At nineteen, Lowell, a Harvard freshman, wrote of his "violent passions" for collecting: "tools; names of birds; marbles; catching butterflies, snakes, turtles etc; buying books on Napoleon".

An autistic person can have violent passions, intensely charged fixations and fascinations, or, like Temple, an almost overwhelming tenderness and concern in certain areas.