Nonetheless, Savater approached his subject with arm-waving passion and there were nuggets of wisdom to be enjoyed.
In Natalie Abrahami's clever, atmospheric production, the music begins as a ghost sound but eventually fills the stage in wave after wave of passion and desire.
Two well-chosen tidbits, performed only on Monday, completed the program with glitter and a tidal wave of passion.
PAGE A10 Christian Music's New Wave The Passion Experience tour, billed not as a Christian concert but a "worship gathering" for college students, reflects a groundswell both within churches and in the Christian music marketplace.
She willfully ignored the New Wave's passion for movies by Alfred Hitchcock and Howard Hawks, Nicholas Ray and Otto Preminger, Samuel Fuller and Stanley Donen, as well as the young French filmmakers' admiration for these Hollywood artists' outsized personae.
If we look beyond the jockeying of interest groups, parties and politicians, it's apparent that the shape of American politics over the past half-century has been determined by two great waves of passion: the first running from the Kennedy and Johnson administrations through the '70s, the second running from the Reagan administration to the departure of George W. Bush.
The wave of passion and excitement that coursed through Mr. Obama's headquarters here in 2008 has been replaced with a methodical and workmanlike approach to manufacturing the winning coalition that came together more organically and enthusiastically for him the last time, a more arduous task with no guarantee of success.
Against Spain, all of that was forgotten, blown away on a wave of passion and emotion that shook the world champions to their core and sent Brazil on their way to a victory that will lay down a marker for the rest of world football ahead of next summer's World Cup.
As the committee prepared to vote, Butler's dismay with Nixon and his disgust with the Republicans 'narrow obstructive partisanship," burst forth in a wave of passion and anger that belied his usual calm.
Following his lead, the Republican high command soon understood that waving the red flag of "limousine liberalism" excited passions and elicited votes.
Her pictures of women pumping their fists and waving banners as thousands marched down Fifth Avenue captured the energy and passion of the moment.
