| 单词 | passion |
| 例句 | Though I had a passion for ballet, I now found that I loved all kinds of dancing. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Ruby was heat and volatility, she was passion, but not violence. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I hate that rifle with a passion, all because it is hands down my worst weapon. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z There’s no indication they were just in the throes of passion. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z But at the same time she felt that his tenderness, his passion, and his love were real. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Those were the ingredients of success at the highest level: passion, talent, and hard work. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Was it simply expected that he would become indoctrinated into the blinding passion of the Mojo mystique just like everyone else? Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But their troubles were just beginning, because the yard is, in many ways, like the mess hall: a place where many inmates come together, and passions are easily inflamed. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I kept praying to turn into a boy, I loved my father’s boat with such a passion. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Her passion for tidiness was also satisfied, for an unruly world could be made just so. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “I didn’t expect to see you here. Though with Nehemia’s passion for hunting, I can’t say I’m surprised she finally dragged you along.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Following Kennedy’s assassination, President Lyndon Johnson embraced the antipoverty rhetoric with great passion, calling for an “unconditional war on poverty,” in his State of the Union Address in January 1964. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Why did she find herself here now, after all the passion, all the hard work, she’d put in? When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z From the tavern below a man improvised a ballad about “poor Mack Parker ... overcome with passion ... his body in the creek.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I wonder why a girl who is so obviously passionate is so adamantly against passion. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z If anybody committed any of the grosser errors —such as putting metal on metal or colour on colour—he became electrified with passion. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z They had heard this and other darker rumours before, of course; but hobbits have a passion for family history, and they were ready to hear it again. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Like all the young people who entered that year, she discovered the appeal of nightlong gatherings in cafes, talking about the necessary changes in the world and infecting each other with the passion of ideas. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But it is said, too, that her passion brings her only a burden of pain, fraught with many sighs. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Orange season, oranges, persimmons, olives, and olive oil. “I have the passions of foraging, passion of hunting, opera, my work,” he told the reporter. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He was startlingly handsome, and there came back to her from years ago, when she was ten or eleven, the memory of a passion she’d had for him, a real crush that had lasted days. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The anchor read the story without any interest or passion. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I guess it just goes to show that if your passion is deep enough, you can do anything. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Hobbits have a passion for mushrooms, surpassing even the greediest likings of Big People. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “For you, my child,” Mechtild said, turning her sharp eyes on me, “I recommend the water of distilled strawberry, for it not only smooths the skin, it guards against the passions of the heart.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z But since I know the passions of the mapifiers I can report that I moved north in Maine roughly or parallel to U.S. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z We might even have edged into a quarrel with passion and violence. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I took my unbecoming passion and left to find Mrs. Bigio. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z He married a woman named Lyra, and his love for her was a passion fiercer than fury. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z "The goddess of passion would be a more accurate term, and what generates more passion than love and war?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z He would fill her with his big-faced children, all of them loud, boneheaded boys with a passion for guns and football and aeroplanes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Bodega wouldn’t preach these points eloquendy but he would speak of them with so much passion and street intellect that Vera fell madly in love with him. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z “If I had a passion for doors,” he said, “or gilded clocks, or miniatures; if I wanted a Turkish corner of my own, I would very likely regard Hill House as a fairyland of beauty.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Somehow, in all my years of schooling, I hadn’t managed to think through my own passions and how they might match up with work I found meaningful. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Hamlet started up and spoke with sudden passion. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z To feed my passion for reading, I checked out books at such a rate that the principal said to me, “Are you planning to read every single book in this library?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I was almost six feet tall at the time, with a quick first step, a passion for defense, and an okay jump shot. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The familiar passion that always accompanies the touch of his skin against hers washes over Celia and she can no longer resist it, no longer wants to. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z So with passion and perseverance, he spends day after day filling pages of notebooks made of old Dutch paper like the one he bought from the bookseller in Brussels. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She drove her mouth against his face with savage passion. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z London's fervent condemnation of capitalist society, his glorification of the primordial world, his championing of the great unwashed—all of it mirrored McCandless s passions. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s getting a degree in journalism at the University of Nebraska not because it’s his passion, but because it was the only in-state college that offered him a scholarship. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z It depends on things not going wrong, on mistakes not being made, on the reptilian passions not being seriously aroused. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At any given time, two or three law students studied under her father, and many of them delighted in teasing Elizabeth about her passion for equality. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z His dark eyes cannot hide the passion burning inside his heart; Ishtar has to shield hers to look upon him. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z They knew nothing of hate and fear, and strove instinctively to avoid all passion. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z A search revealed that the socks they had arrived in were being washed, and that in the obliterating thrill of passion, Aunt Hermione had omitted to pack more than one extra pair. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Cool, silent, hairless Ted, whose breathing pattern didn’t alter one bit in the height of passion? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you have a passion, a dream job?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z For the men of the island, except for the preacher and the occasional male teacher, the Bay was an all-consuming passion. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Her arm was in his, and she felt him trembling with his passion. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Sometimes with more passion and urgency than other times. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z When she discovered Rebeca’s passion, which was impossible to keep secret because of her shouts, Amaranta suffered an attack of fever. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Poems were too close to prayer, rousing regrettable passions. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z But before his complete impassivity her passion was helpless. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Was his old grudge now grown into a jealous passion that he would satisfy? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Not the poverty or dirt or noise, not just extreme unregulated passion where even love found its way with an ice pick, but the absence of control. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z She put vigor and spirit into her playing, but not sentimental passion. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Wild was the wrestle which should be paramount; but another feeling rose and triumphed: something hard and cynical: self-willed and resolute: it settled his passion and petrified his countenance: he went on— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He has lost all passion for the art business and has replaced it with a religious fanaticism unlike anything they had learned as boys in Zundert. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Shut up in the bathroom, she would release herself from the torment of a hopeless passion by writing feverish letters, which she finally hid in the bottom of her trunk. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z No great passion but a kind of affectionate contentment. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The mayor was a careerist, a consummate professional, and he knew how the game should be run against an ethnic challenger: marginalize him, isolate him, acknowledge his passion but color it radical, name it zealotry. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Lancelot was in one of his rare passions, possibly on account of the sufferings of his horse. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I think back to the intensity I’d seen on his face during our first meeting, when he was talking about his newest creation, about his passions. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z One is quite capable, of course, of working out these destructive passions in more vulgar and less efficient ways. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z As he stirred with his stick, muttering curses into his stained white beard, he was thrown into a hysterical passion by Francie asking for a pickle from the bottom of the vat. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z They hugged with the insatiable passion of their youth, while the burro went on chewing grass. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Who had ever expended so much passion on a dream, only to stand helpless as it was granted to others? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Her spirit, her passion, her youth, her courage, her willfulness — I felt all of these things the moment I first saw her. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a passion, in history, for Edward Gibbon, and, in literature, for the journals of Madame de Stael. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Soon, they knew, following the president’s lead into space might mean choosing between the place that had given them a community and the passion for the work that gave their life meaning. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z But, unlike Adams, Madison's mastery of his own passions took the form of total suppression. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Along with John Adams, Madison was America's most astute student of the role of the passions as a political force. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It seemed that he could not breathe, that his body could not contain this passion, that he would be, before their eyes, dispersed into the waiting air. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The melding of passion and fashion is the song of my people. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z There was no one more zealous; I gave my life to it; I served it with a passion. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Is that so?” said the President, his eyes seeming to radiate his passion as they glared. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z These strong passions have somewhat frayed the tolerance for ambiguity that is essential to science. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Architecture, in those dark ages of theirs, was such a light-giving passion of the heart that men gave love-names to their fortresses. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your mom has so much passion for art. It’s contagious, isn’t it?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Before the film was half over we joined the violent booing of the disgusted undergraduates as the dubbed voices uttered words of uncontrolled passion. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Grandma has a great passion for David Bowie. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “Why don’t we poke around and figure some things out for ourselves right now?” said Kate, who had a passion for poking around. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z I was like a little scrubby schoolboy with a passion for a sixth-form prefect, and he kinder, and far more inaccessible. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Jutta’s husband, Albert, is a kind, slow-moving, and balding accountant whose great passion is running model trains in the basement. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She was finally following her passion, writing what she needed to write, and that made her the happiest of them all. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He said the words loud, and he said them with passion. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z White tried to contain the violent passions inside him as Hale greeted him and Agent Smith with the same politeness that he had demonstrated while being arrested. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z That night at supper, my father looked at me with an unbecoming passion. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Kevin said, his entire face lit up with passion and excitement and fire. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The greatest ideas are the simplest Now there was something to be done they worked with passion. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z He rose and came towards me, and I saw his face all kindled, and his full falcon-eye flashing, and tenderness and passion in every lineament. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z One of my new hires was Michael O'Connor, a recent Yale Law School graduate with a passion for helping people in trouble that had been kindled by his own struggles earlier in life. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Corinthians couldn’t make sense out of what they were talking about with so much passion, and she didn’t want to stay there and learn, lest it distract her from the contentment she was feeling. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z And the passion with which we loved the Lord was a measure of how deeply we feared and distrusted and, in the end, hated almost all strangers, always, and avoided and despised ourselves. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z If anyone could sway these men and ignite their passion, Burnham knew, Root was the one. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He thought of Democritus: “Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions, his mistakes and weaknesses.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z What he says is a trespass: people don’t talk about bodies unless they’re discussing illnesses, or about souls except in church, or about passion unless they mean sex. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The standards upheld by the women of West Computing set a floor for the possibilities of a new generation of girls with a passion for math and hopes for a career beyond teaching. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The heart jealous of the soull But for that matter, the Creole husband is never jealous; with him the gangrene passion is one which has become dwarfed by disuse. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Singing now, her face would be a mask; all emotion and passion would have left her features and entered her voice. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z A Child of Our Time intersperses quasi-operatic narrative passages with arrangements of African-American spirituals, as Bach had done with Lutheran hymn-chorales in his oratorios on the passion and crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It has nothing to do with passion or love or romance or any of those other notions we used to titillate ourselves with. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Husbands killed wives, wives killed husbands, and the poor killed one another, always for the usual motives of money, jealousy, passion, and love. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She had the violent weaknesses and passion for beauty of the shanty Nolans. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Booth’s passions included fine clothing, Southern honor, good manners, beautiful women, and the romance of lost causes. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not what I want, it’s what you want. Where is your passion? You attack like a bot!” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z I’m no math whiz—hate the subject with the passion of a Firebird, if you want the truth—but I can handle basic subtraction. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Nonetheless, as numerous historians have shown, the development of a new racial order became the consuming passion for most white Southerners. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Balked for the second time, the passion of his grief had found another outlet, was transformed into a passion of agonized rage. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Ideas should be fought with ideas, my father said, not with blind passion. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z There is no touching or drama or passion or pain. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z But there was nothing, nothing; it was a stroll through another store, and his currency strange and unusable there, and his passion cold, even when he touched the wood and plaster and clay. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z “We are not meant to see this private passion,” I whispered. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “You must temper your passion to suit the scene!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z She mesmerized lecture halls of students with her drama and passion, with ideas critics called daring and groundbreaking. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z For all the pain she had caused me, to see her like that, still haunted by a childish passion, made me want to put my arm around her and comfort her. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He developed for the Beta blonde an exclusive and maniacal passion. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z So for all our making fun of Osbert and his passion to join the War Effort I could see now that this was our ticket to getting back home. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Always friendly, they could never be anybody’s friend; always reading, they could really never learn; always boasting of their passions, they could never really feel and were afraid to live. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But I also receive national and international invitations to share that same passion for reconciliation in our world. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Still, life had always been a series of passions, obstacles, and surprises for Maria Merian. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Princess Cassiopeia, you can scarcely imagine — the passion that sufl'uses me — and the extremity of my need.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The woman put her hands to her head, tears flooded from her eyes, and she flung herself full-length on the grass, weeping with a passion that touched Malcolm’s heart with fear. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z We are completely at the mercy of a decrepit tiger-woman with what I can only hope is an all-consuming passion for Snow’s death. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Although Marina’s aviators were excited to be finally engaged in combat, most people weren’t rushing to defend their Motherland with the same energy and passion they’d felt the year before. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z When the song reached its peak in sound and passion, a tall, thin man who had been kneeling behind the altar all the while stood up and sang with the audience for a few bars. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z So she just looked at his pale form instead, and the ghost saw the passion and brilliance in her eyes, and took strength from it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I wanted to be the person who wrote with such a passion that all people would turn away from injustice and embrace the Sermon on the Mount. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The musicians blow into their flutes with passion, their cheeks puffed out, their braids swinging. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The wave was faceless and it pushed without passion. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to jump out of the truck and run, run down the hills dipping into sandy valleys in front of familiar houses bordered with passion fruit and morning glory. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z At first there was passion far beyond what the dour gossip of older women had led Clara to expect, but their relationship chilled rapidly. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z One was my Jonathan’s, raised in a high key of passion; the other Mr. Morris’ strong resolute tone of quiet command. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z We’re lucky to have enough money so that my mom doesn’t have to get a steady job right now—she can actually pursue her passion. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z Roman's observation underscores how difficult it is for those of us preoccupied with the humdrum concerns of adulthood to recall how forcefully we were once buffeted by the passions and longings of youth. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z This singular passion did not long remain concealed from the Goddess of Passionate Love. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But the investigation of gravity now took a back seat as Newton turned to a new passion—alchemy. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z But Farmer likes being grounded in the kind of obscurity, away from the media and spotlight, that refreshes his passion and authority; doctoring to the poor is his ultimate source of power. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I was among those people at the conference, though by that time I was no stranger to Reggie’s story, and his passion. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z But Maddie was goals for me when it came to following her passion. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Mrs. Coulter went on, and her voice was all bronze now, and ringing with passion. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I love that old phone with a passion. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z It was as if the entire civilization had undergone some self-inflicted brain surgery, and most of its memories, discoveries, ideas and passions were extinguished irrevocably. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Tom Watson himself, who had spoken with passion and idealism about wiping out the color line, became one of white supremacy’s greatest supporters. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Martí wrote with passion, and it spilled out into his poetry and his life.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z All her life, she had learned that passion, like fire, was a dangerous thing. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I’ve broken into banks, warehouses, mansions, museums, vaults, a rare book library, and once the bedchamber of a visiting Kaelish diplomat whose wife had a passion for emeralds. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She doesn’t like the older artists who sing about things with so much passion and depth in their voices that it makes me feel more alive. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z She was on friendly terms with Lillian Taylor, with whom she shared a passion for flowers and for The Magic Mountain and Mrs. Dallo- way. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Dede could feel herself being swayed by the passion of her sisters. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Zeitouns were a high-achieving clan, full of doctors and school principals and generals and business owners, all of them with a passion for the sea. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Then I rose up on my curtainless bed, trembling and quivering; and then the still, dark night witnessed the convulsion of despair, and heard the burst of passion. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z With the Renaissance revival of Stoicism the word ‘philosophical’ acquired a new meaning: philosophers, it was held, were able to moderate their passions and to be unmoved by the blows of fortune. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z My passion is to see people learn to work together and appreciate the diversity God created among us. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “For a while I’ve been trying to find my passion,” Jonah said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “It means way more to you than it ever did to me. And, you know, I get it. This is your passion.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z But they had survived that fight, mostly because of Barack Obama, bonding anew over their shared passion. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “But chastity means passion, chastity means neurasthenia. And passion and neurasthenia mean instability. And instability means the end of civilization. You can’t have a lasting civilization without plenty of pleasant vices.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He understood more than ever the passion the Gladers felt for finding their way out of the Maze. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He then talked of his own journey since the accident, which he says left him with injuries that forced him to give up his passion of being a farrier. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I hated the dreams with a burning passion, but the fact that I was having them didn’t seem like a big blockbuster of a surprise to me. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He hated them with a passion he didn’t know a human could feel. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Xaro's flowery protestations of passion amused her, but his manner was at odds with his words. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the current, the height and strength of the barrier. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Others, moreover, who had expended no passion on it at all. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It was his life’s work and consuming passion. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z But every geek has had a brush with a parent, a teacher, a clergyman, someone who’s branded his or her Net passion dangerous, unhealthy, addictive, or bizarre. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z It never ceased to frighten her, this passion he brought to something she could not understand. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “Her passion is being quiet,” your mother would say. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z "The passion between two people can ruin the arcana. Poison the blood with toxins." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z And what opiate for his severe sufferings—what object for his strong passions—had he sought there? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Not a passion like ours, Gustavo, but love just the same. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead he had an overwhelming feeling of a kind of passion: for knowledge, for learning of all sorts—and for the children who sat that day at the small desks, as Gabe did. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He was a leftist leader, and he was afire with the most uncontrollable passion: justice. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z His dedication and faithfulness were due to his own personal loyalty to my parents and his passion for displaying onscreen the integrity and power of my father’s message. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She was able to feel real passion about things, about people. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z I thus wrote to Luria about my newly found passion, asking whether he knew how to arrange my acceptance into the Cambridge lab. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z It pleased him to see America’s civil engineers at last expressing passion for the fair, although in fact the directors had promised nothing to Eiffel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z On the other side, blacks like Mr. Horton showed their passion for the power of the ballot and came out in large numbers for Big Bill. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She knew who had a passion for justice as well as ladies’ undergarments, who loved his wife and who shared one. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z This new order of things disgusted him, and he howled dismally for ‘Marmar’, as his angry passions subsided, and recollections of his tender bondwoman returned to the captive autocrat. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked up, eyes lit, as though he had not dared hope she would believe the same thing that he believed, and she felt between them the first pulse of a shared passion. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z And I really do not think that America, adolescent and cocksure, a stranger to suffering and travail, an enemy of passion and sacrifice, is ready to probe into its most fundamental beliefs. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Steve was in his mid-thirties and had a passion and certainty that seemed the direct opposite of my ambivalence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Poor people have a great passion for huge quantities of things. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Rule thy passion, for unless it obeys, it rules you.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The long years of solitude and unhappiness had distilled her emotions and purified her feelings down to a few terrible, magnificent passions, which possessed her totally. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Kamaswami conducted his business with care and often with passion, but Siddhartha regarded it all as a game, the rules of which he endeavored to learn well, but which did not stir his heart. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Beautiful and well, Yolanda muses, that's what she had wanted with Clive, all things beautiful and well, instead of their obsessive, consuming passion that left her—each time Clive left her—exhausted and distraught. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z And yet what Jimmy had felt for her was beyond normal love; it was passion—a passion that was in part pathological. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Under that nation’s politics and parades and passions runs an old darkness, passive, anarchic, silent, the fecund darkness of the Handdara. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t have Vincent's passion for collecting, nor did the other children. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z That was the most frightening time of my life, and quite the most dishonest, and the resulting hysteria lent great passion to my sermons—for a while. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Real affection, it seemed, he could not have for me; it had been only fitful passion: that was balked; he would want me no more. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Might she have a chance both to support her small family and to follow her passion? The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “We must have a purge,” he said, his eyes bulging, his face quivering with passion. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a secret passion, and that’s what it would remain: secret. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The boxing world feels cheated by my obvious lack of passion, but the press loves me. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z She works her mouth around the peppermint and onto the passion fruit now, nice and slow. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z There was nothing cruel about him, no ignoble passion. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Abu’s love and passion for football was passed down to my brother, with Qareeb playing football from a really young age in Pop Warner youth football programs, a local league for young boys. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Eventually, her passion for fabric and face paint caused her to settle permanently in Paris, where she ran the only salon of international consequence. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z It was curious that when he was in one of these black passions he seemed to pass out of human life. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a liveliness to both Mr. Birkway and my mother, and an excitement—a passion—for words and for stories. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Kay was not called anything but Kay, as be was too dignified to have a nickname and would have flown into a passion if anybody had tried to give him one. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Until the mid-1980s, the law made no distinction between crimes motivated by bigotry and crimes motivated by money, passion, or boredom. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Now, in July 1838, as he headed toward Maer, he knew that the woman he married would have to be one who would not fight his passion for beetles and beaks of finches. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But in a flash her face filled with incredible passion. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z A code that would instill discipline, restrain passion, and order his steps. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “They look like somebody stuck them in a bucket of bleach and forgot they were there. That goes for their passion, too!” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z These boys and girls were will-less, their speech flat, their gestures vague, their personalities devoid of anger, hope, laughter, enthusiasm, passion, or despair. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z They were screaming and yelling with such passion, I knew they had to be a team of some sort. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Soon I realized that I was greatly mistaken in believing Hamlet and his mother to be alike in their passions. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z I envy this woman’s passion, her determination to get what she knows is hers. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They say that poor Dona Victoria dipped him too deeply in a moment of long-repressed passion. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Boston was swept with a passion it had not known since the Boston Massacre three years before. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death—ought to decide, indeed, to earn one’s death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Freedom Bay was a collection of one thousand brick homes designed by an architect with a passion for duplication. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Her instincts were satisfied as soon as they were awakened, and she had never imagined that passion could take other forms. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He needs normalcy now and a chance to pursue his passions, especially basketball. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z He couldn’t understand or accept that the passion he felt for Zita wasn’t reciprocal. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Dimple loved it, all of it, instantly and with an unadulterated passion. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z He waves his hands around before running them through his hair, and there’s something about watching a man talk with that much passion that makes me sit up and take notice. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “I already told you my story. I was diagnosed when—” “No, not your cancer story. Your story. Interests, hobbies, passions, weird fetishes, etcetera.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z A few hundred miles south of Winthrop Hospital, Alfred Vanderbilt was busy cultivating a passion of his own. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And Mary Lou had run away — from Billy, from the passion surging through her. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Thinking that freeing an island from U.S. control could be done with passion and intellect. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z It’s a documentary about two boys from the Chicago projects who had a passion for basketball. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The authors also share an attitude: they do not hide the passion and relish that drive them to tell us about their subjects. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z His speeches were at times so fiery and full of passion that every year the principal would try to make Tapia the gym teacher, in hopes of cutting down Tapia’s influence over us. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z He could remember no other unusual conversation with her, no strange behavior, no meaningful looks or sulks to suggest that her schoolgirlish passion had lasted beyond that day in June. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z What Volpe’s students gain from him is a passion and sense of self unrelated to anything having to do with money, power, or status. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z In Arles there is passion, too, but not romance. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He was arguably more like a novelist than a composer in this respect, people falling for his music as they would a newly discovered secret passion. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z This was truly a passion project for me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z He bit hungrily into his bread and swallowed a couple of mouthfuls, then continued speaking, with a sort of pedant’s passion. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Granted, I didn’t hate him anymore, and I’d lost some of the outrage and passion, but the need for revenge kept eating at me. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z His true passion was the study of populations and growth. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But he had a “more or less irresistible passion for books” that started in Zundert. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “For woman is yin,” she cried sadly, “the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z And he came to see the law as a struggle to subdue the violent passions not only in others but also in oneself. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Which was vaguely irritating to Humperdinck because, to tell the absolute truth, torture was never all that high on his scale of passions, and he would just as soon have disposed of Westley right then. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The passion of nocturnal secrecy was a wine in his blood. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Genêt had fled Philadelphia and its epidemic for Manhattan in September, but the passions surrounding him and the Neutrality Act seemed to have died along the way. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z He had carried this innocent precision, these dainty demoded cusps, through misery and passion to old age. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The passions run from creative joy to anger to frustration to inspiration to aspiration to competition to rage. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The speech of Pyrrhus had moved him greatly, and he lamented that the actor's passion was greater than his own. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z That was his power—cranking up the passions so badly, they clouded your ability to think. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The church’s pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, was known as a sensational preacher with a passion for social justice and was now officiating at our wedding. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He likes to remain that way to keep himself from being too tempted by a younger man’s passions.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z If Reb Saunders was fighting him with passion, that did not mean that my father had to fight Reb Saunders with passion. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I wondered how much Cristiana knew of the passions of love. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It was me who’d alter everything, putting my passions and career dreams on hold, to fulfill this piece of our dream. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He thought about Amanda and regretted that she no longer moved him, and when he searched his memory for the last embers of their excessive passion he could not find them. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Above all, he learned from it how to listen, to listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinions. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that is no longer Self—the great secret! Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z His passion is to preach to “those who work in the darkness, in the heart of the earth..., are very moved by the message of the gospel and also believe it.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “You have to happen to it. Remember: The spirit grows sluggish when you neglect the passions.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z And now she was standing, her hair disordered, passion in her voice—plainly just as bewildered as the President himself. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z His mother often insisted he pray with her in her room, then filled the air around him with trembly passion. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He had a passion for trains—his office was littered with books about the history of railroads, model locomotives, paintings of trains trundling on tracks through green hills and over bridges. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “We androids can’t control our physical, sensual passions. You probably knew that; in my opinion you took advantage of me.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “Listen to me, Alice. I saw his mind. Tracking is his passion, his obsession — and he wants her, Alice — her, specifically. He begins the hunt tonight.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z But still, she manages to say it to us with passion and a smile on her face. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Above all things, Bull wanted to pass on the gift of fury to his oldest son, a passion to inflict defeat on others, even humiliation. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides, he could not bind all that he had in his nature—the rover, the aspirant, the poet, the priest—in the limits of a single passion. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Amaranta was really making an effort to kindle in her heart the forgotten ashes of her youthful passion. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z At this everybody felt uncomfortable, and Kay, instead of flying into his usual passion, hung his head. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Was this the true passion of a lover in defiance of men or the complaint of a scholar plagued by false passion? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The third church offered passion and catharsis; it was a place where you truly felt the presence of the Holy Spirit inside you. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z It wasn’t long before Mary’s new boss suggested that she enroll in the laboratory’s engineer training program; her ability and her passion for the work were abundantly clear. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z More important, they believed the crimes they committed were legitimate because they were committed in the heat of passion: anger, jealousy, loss of face, and so on. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Irrigating her fields, nourishing her crops with other people’s passions. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But I—I am lost in remoteness, in weakness, and in a passion to which I yield myself trustingly. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z You go to medical school instead of pursuing your passion. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Delacroix is known for his use of color and also for his passion. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Her family depended on her artist’s income, yet her passion led her right back to her boxes of caterpillars. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Jacob is just a hair shorter than Jeanne, and his freckled face is alight with passion. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “I’ll tell you what. I appreciate the passion that you have for your friends’ and family’s well-being, and can see why you might feel entitled to that truck.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z El Li'der, it seems, saves his most ardent passions for the revolution. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Her passion is to do away with them, one by one. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Nately protested with passion that was both a plea and a rebuke. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z There was something about the way he smiled when she made a face, surprised, so grateful, that made her kiss and touch his hair with great passion and indignation in her heart. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Both the great men had slipped into the high language, suitable to the place and passion. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally Cinna stepped in and offered to help me develop my passion for designing clothes, which really required development since it was nonexistent. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z It is a great story now of implacable vengeance and tragic passions and inevitable doom. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, it’s probably a diamond ring. Five carats or more. Probably sent by a stranger who has seen me from afar. A shy billionaire who’s been inflamed to passion by the sight of my body.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, watching her, hearing her, seeing the passion in her eyes, it almost made him cry. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z What of their passions lying stiff and untranslated in their breasts? Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The brief heat of it passed and passion died out of him; he was fond of her, but passionless. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Without needing to discuss it outright, I knew he could handle a partner who had her own passions and voice. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She hated Cap Anderson with a passion that I wouldn’t have believed her capable of—and I was her mother. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z And Lord knows, she might even like one of these fancy ones with the kiwi and passion fruit and all that mixed up in there. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z My father was a journalist, and I hope that, in some way, this journey has proven that, as my mother says, I honestly inherited his passion for getting the story right. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I looked again at the cover of the Masses and I knew that the wild cartoon did not reflect the passions of the common people. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z They’re still seeing each other in secret, which my sister says only “adds to their passion.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z The reckless passion of the heroine, Arabella, for a wicked foreign count is punished by ill fortune when she contracts cholera during an impetuous dash toward a seaside town with her intended. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z This was done in a leisurely, painstaking manner; yet the people in the hall were charged with passion; a sense of human destiny lived; an atmosphere of human frailty was present. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z An extraordinarily wealthy man with a passion for chess, he wanted to pay Bobby some of the royalties that were due him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z His eyes are so full of passion, that suddenly anything seems possible. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Seeing how unimpressed I was, he lost passion and sat down heavily. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Down below, the squid’s passion for destruction is suddenly quelled. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “But,” Ms. Udell continued, “you did a good job. You have passion and dedication. Are you sure you don’t want another part? You could be Wilbur.” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z “I have no schoolboy’s passion for him ...” A door on the other side of the tapestry squeaked on its hinges. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you two boys can’t say anything nice at the table,” Mom said with an utter lack of passion, “I’d just as soon you said nothing at all.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z In those three months they had come to love each other with the ecstatic passion that would torment them for the rest of their lives. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Ferula’s affection for her sister-in-law became a passion, a dedication to waiting on her and caring for her and an unlimited tolerance for her distractions and eccentricities. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Johnny’s father had one passion that overrode all his other interests and kept him going through those hard years—rowing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z But it did have some connection to vitality, or “passion,” as Master Hyrrokkin said, and those without it were emotionless, lethargic. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It had been more than three years since their last meeting, but time had not cooled their passion. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Miss Duncan is pretty enough; I tend to think she would make a fine revenant, possessing the bodies of young women and using them to avenge crimes of passion. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z And yet, while she was singing with pleasure and dying with laughter over her own inventions, Aureliano was becoming more and more absorbed and silent, for his passion was self-centered and burning. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Vincent encourages him in his passion because, he tells him, “a woman and a man can become one, that is, one whole and not two halves, that I believe.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z A skinny kid with braces, a member of the debate club as well as drama, he has a passion, bordering on obsession, for recycling. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z But his passion for books is real and contagious. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It can all get terribly confusing to nonspecialists, but to a geologist these can be matters of passion. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Thus I came to develop a passion for sports, and every day I would amble from street to street, neighbourhood to neighbourhood, searching for games to play. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The chairman of Truman’s English department recognized a passion and potential in Volpe and hired him in November of 1969, a few months after the school year started, to teach English. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Your passion stays low, yet under no circumstance will you underperform. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He had tasted riches, passion and power, but for a long time he remained a Samana in his heart. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z His passions were books and kittens and dancing, clumsy as he was. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z His young cousin admired Henri's passion for action and rejection of inequality. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He signed me up for soccer teams to stir the same passion in me. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Catching and roasting rats became a passion for Shin. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z "No, but he must have had something," he said with sudden passion. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Mengarini was so in love with chess that he identified with Bobby’s passion. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He rushed upon the crooked man, towering with passion. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z They matched their male colleagues in curiosity, passion, and the ability to withstand pressure. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z And because he was still able to move his hands—Morrie always spoke with both hands waving—he showed great passion when explaining how you face the end of life. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Some kin to the passion of Brother Fowles, I guess, who advised me to trust in Creation, which is made fresh daily and doesn’t suffer in translation. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Or is passion indiscriminate, incubating haphazardly like a cancer? Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z And the family devoured the chocolate cake with a passion they hadn’t shown for the rest of the meal, as if a great pall had been lifted. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z That would please Uncle Matthew anyway, Kit thought, bewildered and a little dismayed to glimpse under Nat’s nonchalant surface a flash of the same passion that made life in the Wood household so uncomfortable. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Everything gives way before the recurring torment and festivity of passion. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z His timid show of affection did not work, nor did the unbridled passion that always overcame him in her presence. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I really hate Miami, William. Despise it with a passion. Everything is so pink and blue.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z His passion and commitment frustrated others at the seminary, and the trustees at the school told him he had to stop talking about the slavery issue. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She sat on the cot, the cot I now hated with a passion because it had driven her to May’s room. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He wondered how his brother felt, wondered whether now that his passion was chilling he would feel panic or sorrow or sick conscience or nothing. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She wished it were an uncivil emotion, a passion like jealousy or betrayal. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Apparently he was driven by a passion of hatred against them which made him willing to sacrifice his son in order to bring upon them the horror of being cannibals. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z After his father had given him the camera, he’d taught Fadi how to use it, sharing his own passion for photography. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Though Pa feels that Vincent's behavior is not “normal” religious passion, he probably doesn’t realize that Vincent’s extreme religious zeal is likely a sign of mental illness. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Hence again I have stayed in my hole, because up above there's an increasing passion to make men conform to a pattern. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z But still, I could see the passion spring up in Bouain’s eyes as he lifted Otto and laid him on his lap. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z As she spoke I could see her husband’s face darken and draw together, as though the passion in him were shrivelling his being to its core. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Virtually all traces of the grandfather’s life and death—of passions and turmoil and possible brutal violence—had seemingly been washed away. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “I have the passion of cooking, pickling, curing salamis, sausage, making wine in the fall. This is my life. I do this with my friends. It’s to my heart.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Johnny whispered to Rab, who put down the axe he had been wielding with such passion and grabbed Dove. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Hearing the passion in Raizel’s voice, I realized that to her, journalism was more than just a job that paid better than working the presses. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z All his reading about nature sparked a lifelong passion. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z He felt indeed that this love, this blind love for his son, was a very human passion, that it was Sam- sara, a troubled spring of deep water. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z His passion is sports fishing, and he is one of the best fishermen in Dar es Salaam. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z But like my parents, Auntie’s money only went where she saw potential and passion. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z This passion Céline had professed to return with even superior ardour. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z She is tenacious in her passions but voraciously open to contrary argument. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “What will she do? What will be her passion?” your aunts would ask when they came over to cook on great holidays, which called for cannon salutes back home but meant nothing at all here. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “That you have so much passion in your body,” she said insolently, “that you seek assuagement thus. Your husband would give much to know where you have been tonight.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered for a little while about the best way to communicate my deep-felt passion and decided to commit it to paper. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Her charisma and passion roused the workers, as she cared for the sick and helped mothers in childbirth. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Geeks’ passions often crisscross back and forth between technology and more traditional forms of culture, with unusual depths of interest in both. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a Swiss, an immigrant, with his national passion for cleanliness. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Whenever we have something that we are good at—something we care about—that experience and passion fundamentally change the nature of our first impressions. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Among Leonardo’s many interests and accomplishments—in painting, sculpture, anatomy, geology, natural history, military and civil engineering—he had a great passion: to devise and fabricate a machine that could fly. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We have the same passion and hope as the Freedom Riders had when they traveled from city to city across the South. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The roses flamed up as though with a sudden passion from within; a new and profound significance seemed to suffuse the shining pages of the books. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Around them hovered an atmosphere of still passion, of devastating service, of unpitying self-denial. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Sense would resist delirium: judgment would warn passion. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Or maybe you didn’t feel as compelled to have a career or follow your passions in Iran. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z He scribbled, “I suspect conscience, an hereditary compound passion. Like avarice.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Unclouded by passion or desire—that pair of dogs that sleep so soundly inside children, waiting for them to grow up. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Reviews praised “the great passion for investigation and tireless diligence of this woman,” and wealthy collectors immediately snapped up the more expensive copies, which had been hand-colored in Maria’s workshop. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They became admirers of each other’s passion for justice, and then they found a deeper connection, fell in love, and got married. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z You couldn’t even secretly have a romantic passion for an aunt. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Our trip to Washington is to prove the passion behind our cause. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z And I had seen so many begin to pack their lives in cotton wool, smother their impulses, hood their passions, and gradually retire from their manhood into a kind of spiritual and physical semi-invalidism. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She told us to be the kind of people that have enough passion to change the world. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z When he took his lips away he looked at her with eyes full of reproach and at the same time he felt his teeth clamping and his lips tingling slightly with rising passion. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Peppermint choc chip and passion fruit, in a waffle cone. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Even after Mama had ordered it for her, she had longed for it with a passion that surprised her. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I knew I had the right skills and plenty of passion. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Now, he was the president of a small bank in South Orange, but fencing was still his passion. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Sometimes, you know, the standard passion surrogate isn’t quite ...” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z You got these little quick passions, you blinked, and they were gone. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z More than affection: they loved each other with a passion. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She looks for a passion and finds it in the study of physics. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z In the Adams formulation, aristocracies were to society as the passions were to the individual personality, permanent fixtures susceptible to disciplined containment and artful channeling, but never altogether removable. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The Link between us magnifies our emotions tenfold, and I fight for air, overwhelmed at the heat of his desire coursing through us—and my own responding passion rushing back to him. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Never had it been so strangely clear to Siddhartha how closely related passion was to death. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z His name was Paul Lurz, and he was the hospital’s director of performance and improvement, but he also happened to be a social worker who’d majored in history, which was his passion. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Toby couldn’t decide if playing with such passion for a bunch of drunks was inspiring or depressing. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z It interested me, even at that moment, to see, that, whilst the face of white set passion worked convulsively over the bowed head, the hands tenderly and lovingly stroked the ruffled hair. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z I type back: “My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery-always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z While he waited for the sun and the ducks to rise, Angelo spoke in a whisper about his past and his passions. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “I don’t know how to explain it,” she says of her passion for playing. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z This woman who was so down to earth and practical in all other aspects of life sublimated her childhood passion and lived it tragically. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I demand, my mind suddenly leaping from one passion to another. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He had a passion for shoes—a different pair each day of the week—and for silk underwear. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Again he turned lividly pale; but, as before, controlled his passion perfectly. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z In disposition, she was Pollard’s antithesis, governing her life with rigid reserve as he scattered his passions. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She offered him another five dollars if he went back, and he built a small bankroll until he couldn’t deny he had found a true passion. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z It was after this first wave of passion began to die down that the first full-page ad appeared. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z All done in the same key, with the same passion and most often standing on the same foot. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, Ma,” he said, hoping that she would realize, despite his stammering tongue, the depth of his passion to please her. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z He corrects himself, starting “again with passion,” erasing, and finally wearing “a hole in the paper with the rubbing of the eraser.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z We’d get a plate every Sunday after church, and I always looked forward to the passion fruit juice, so sweet bees would fly all around me. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The passion that she had for her job was a gift, one that few people ever experienced. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Her passion and heightened sense of justice do not make it easy for her to keep opinions buttoned up. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He brought out her joie de vivre, a passion, an almost infectious laugh. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z You still love him, I ast She say, I got what you call a passion for him. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’ve worked with people convicted of dangerous driving behaviors and they’ve been great ambassadors, but no one else has had the long-term commitment and passion as Reggie. He’s gone so far above and beyond.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z What they feared even more, Celia realized later, was that passion might spare them entirely, that they’d die conventionally, smug and purposeless, having never savored its blackness. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z A passion of rage took possession of her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Being five years older than he was and his cousin as well did nothing to dim her passion. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z They’ve been alive too long to remember the passion of life. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Then the queen and her son are alike in their passions,” I said, “for Gertrude’s grief exceeds all bounds. I fear her health is in danger.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Your determination and passion inspired so many of us. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Theo is a man of the world, and he understands how to navigate the line between passion and presentation; Vincent does not. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z An Incan princess felt the tenderest of passions for a Conquistador who had arrived with horses to subdue her nation. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “As I had a passion for oratory, I was deeply impressed with his power,” she wrote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z He knows that that sort of insular passion can’t be sustained. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I believe that the passion behind our stories will speak as loud as the words in it. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The boys who were about Tyan-yu’s age made us sit on the bed side by side and everybody made us kiss so our faces would turn red with passion. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Ferula had come to love Clara with a jealous passion that resembled that of a demanding husband more than it did that of a sister-in-law. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Grampa claimed he was feeling better, but his skin stayed gray and loose, and he hardly ever showed the passion for things that he used to when I was little. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z “Love,” said Sir Grummore uneasily, “is a pretty strong passion, when you come to think of it.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z His passion for Amaranta had been extinguished without leaving any scars. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Donnelly worked to inspire passion for the union, and when he felt the laborers’ union spirit was strong enough, he called a strike. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Coming from a station in life which they no doubt would have branded “lower class,” I could not understand why they were so all-absorbed with sexual passion. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He spoke with a rare passion and eloquence. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z So it was natural that Mia, too, would find a passion of her own. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Perhaps the hand of heaven stays your hand. Or perhaps reason is your master. It is only those who are ruled by passion who allow their thoughts of violence to become violent acts.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Hamlet said with an intensity that made the veins in his temples stand out In a strange passion himself, he seemed desperate to control the players, their every movement and word. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He grasped my head in both hands and kissed my lips with a passion, letting his book tumble to the floor with a great noise. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Some seemed curious, some seemed frightened, but the overwhelming majority appeared to hate me with a passion I had never before encountered. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “I want to know what passion is,” she heard him saying. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Lander’s rhetoric inflamed passions; he fomented rebellion; he was too uppity to allow to run free. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The young girl and the intrepid Jesuit, both quaking with unchristian passion. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z "Didu does things with passion," I tell my cousin and aunt. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Occasionally his muscles twitched from the hard storm of passion that had swept him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I had had two years of color, choler, and passion in Karhide. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile Robert, addressing Mrs. Pontellier, continued to tell of his one time hopeless passion for Madame Ratignolle; of sleepless nights, of consuming flames till the very sea sizzled when he took his daily plunge. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z She say, I got what you call a passion for him. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z First kisses and last kisses and all the passion between the years. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z It was an exotic bloom he’d seen in a shop window, and he would have been abashed to know it was called a passion flower. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Then, at the moment of greatest passion and conviction, that curtain flapped in his head and he forgot what he had been driving at. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “Yes, that was Tom Riddle senior, the handsome Muggle who used to go riding past the Gaunt cottage and for whom Merope Gaunt cherished a secret, burning passion.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Sefia wove among vendors hawking mangoes and passion fruit, sacks of coffee and catches of silver fish. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “All you dreamer types think the universe exists just for you and your passion.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Zeno taught that the key to happiness lay in mastering the passions. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z “There is supposed to be a passion in your face that works you strongly. You’re on a knife’s edge.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z I hated the gang thing with a passion. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z He stepped into the bedroom and fired twice and the twin beds went up in a great simmering whisper, with more heat and passion and light than he would have supposed them to contain. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z They were blinded by the strength of their passion, which was like an insatiable thirst. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The excitement of the day had inflamed her husband’s passions. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z What in other times had been a real activity, an irresistible passion of his youth, became a remote point of reference for him; an emptiness. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z She had felt more than this—you might say that she had felt everything except the passion of romance. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I hated these emotional outbursts, these tempests of passion, for they always left me tense and weak. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z And then her words tumbled out in a passion of communication, as though she hurried before her listener could be taken away. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m beginnin’ to hate her with a passion,” Mama said, and I hadn’t a doubt who she was talking about. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z It wasn’t lack of passion she was sensing. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Husbands shot wives in fits of passion then turned the gun on themselves and splattered their brains all over the walls. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He’d also gifted me with a love for the sport and a passion for competing. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Could her son, Celia wonders, have inherited her habit of ruinous passion? Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z And right along with a passion for liberty, those were the things they were about to take to Berlin and lay before the world when they took to the water at Griinau. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Mo's passion for the world's first hero had rubbed off on me a little. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z She felt weak, for not having a passion, not being sure what she wanted to do. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I also shared with them that my secret to success was to never let other people’s opinions about me stop me from pursuing my passions. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z This does not mean that when we are outside our areas of passion and experience, our reactions are invariably wrong. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z One reason Farmer could never convince himself to choose one path over another was his fundamental dream—an unwavering passion—for equality in health care. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z With the unbalanced passion of the young, I hated her for showing her ignorance to Mrs. Flowers. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I have known desert men who chose their places with quiet and slow passion, rejecting the nervousness of a watered world. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried to tap into his passion, but my head only filled with questions. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Aunt Queen believed passionately in many things, but Christmas was her supreme passion. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Would that I could say I am caught up in Addie’s passion for social justice and the electoral process. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z Hawking; as lames tbe First pointed out, is an extreme stirrer up of passions. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z But natural history became his true passion and now, after the voyage, in 1838, Charles was having serious doubts about God and Jesus, about the Revelation, about heaven and hell. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The camaraderie, intensity, and passion for the job, and the sense of duty to something larger than myself, was something I had missed desperately. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z But it also makes them passionate about their interests, and the passion eventually trumps the shyness. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Their union was leached of passion, but there was a new passion, outside of themselves, that united them in an intimacy they had never had before, an unfixed, unspoken, intuitive intimacy: Barack Obama. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z It takes some of the passion out of hating him. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Met Bong’s voice sounds enthusiastic and jubilant, but I feel neither her joy nor passion, only my hatred for her and Pol Pot. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “They were measuring the starlight. And the aurora. He had a passion for the aurora. I think his main interest was in ruins, though. Ancient things.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Remember Tyshal Yet when his fingers trailed lightly over one nipple, it stiffened at the touch, and he could see the mark on her breast where he'd bitten her in his passion. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They had a passion for order and symmetry, much like the Romans, but they knew how foolish it was to deny the unseen world, the old gods. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The next verse was sung with deep, growling passion. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z In the theater, passion and perfectionism and insistence on aesthetic standards are prized qualities, not unruly and unwelcome traits. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z There was only Esther, who contained in her narrow body all mystery and all passion, and who answered all his need. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z After smallpox wiped out much of the political elite, each panaqa tried to move into the vacuum, stoking the passions of the civil war. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Although they had not been back to Germany, Hans had instilled in his only child a fervent passion for the Fatherland. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Our passion for writing and changing the world was rejuvenated. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z It was strong and fleshy and brutal, it was full of intelligence and a sort of controlled passion before which he felt himself helpless; but it was tired. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z With more time on her hands now that the children needed her less, Emma found a passion that brought her into touch with the world outside of Down. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The most liberating activity of all turned out to be downhill skiing, a sport with which I had little experience but that quickly became a passion. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Lent had just begun, and I was always in a state during those forty days of the passion of Christ. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a mad passion, unhinging, which made Fernanda's bones tremble with horror in her grave and which kept them in a state of perpetual excitement. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z This was not an act performed in the heat of passion. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Diamond Jim Brady dined with Lillian Russell and indulged his passion for sweet corn. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Once the article came out, a number of people who had been neutral threw their support behind the McCulloughs; some who had been on Bebe’s side found their passions cooling. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It seemed an exaggeration to him that for the elections his father-in-law had them send six soldiers armed with rifles under the command of a sergeant to a town with no political passions. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Her chin was pressed to the foot of the cliffs in a passion of devotion, and occasionally she gave her tail a wag. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She could feel each of her loved ones, their passions and fears. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z If he really loved her, she wondered, why the lack of passion? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Had she had so much passion, so much energy, for him that she’d sidelined the main thing in her life, the one thing she wanted more than anything else? When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z At the height of their passion, it was foolish to reason with them or try to reassure them. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Jesse’s gift—his equivalent of other lads’ passion for music or sports—was computing. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In a modest office, the bishop asked Reggie about his interests, passions, and intentions. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z These are, in fact, the engineering artifacts of intelligent beings: roads, highways, canals, farmland, city streets—a pattern disclosing the twin human passions for Euclidean geometry and territoriality. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Although his career path had shifted to politics, Roosevelt never abandoned his passion for nature. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Paul may have been small and delicate physically, but she had an intensity and passion for her work that those around her found inspiring. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “I do not know. Perhaps by reading so much of greed and passion,” I said, thinking of all the stories and tales I had savored while disbelieving the wickedness in them. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Now it is a legal marriage. I have never seen a case where there is so much passion and devotion.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It’s impossible to imagine my father, who in my experience was aroused mainly by the lowering of interest rates, suffering the acute, adolescent passions of the flesh. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z And the time will come under judgment Not under passion. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Heavens and earth, no!” cried Arthur in a storm of passion. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Whence all this passion toward conformity anyway?—diversity is the word. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Now he also experienced belatedly, for once in his life, the strongest and strangest passion; he suffered tre-mendously through it and yet was uplifted, in some way renewed and richer. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Laura began, snapping on the overly bright overhead light, scaring off whatever shy passion Yoyo, with the blue thread of her writing, had just begun coaxing out of a labyrinth of feelings. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Those would have implied I was motivated by a kind of passion. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Our passion for learning, evident in the behavior of every toddler, is the tool for our survival. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He understood how grief can twist a heart, how passions drive good men to folly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It is on this world that we developed our passion for exploring the Cosmos, and it is here that we are, in some pain and with no guarantees, working out our destiny. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried to keep up with Coach Mustilli’s instructions, tried to grab on to some of his obvious passion for saber fencing, but I still didn’t know if Coach had chosen the right person. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Crowded into one-room church buildings, the faithful clutched live rattlers, copperheads, and cottonmouths to their bosoms or draped the snakes around their necks while they prayed in a spiraling frenzy of religious passion. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z On this afternoon, trekking across the bleak Plateau of Drume, he hated elves with a passion. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Because of Ashoke’s passion for this particular book, the spine had recently split, threatening to divide the pages into two sections. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Jean Devèze, a recent French arrival, condemned Rush with a passion: “He, I say, is a scourge more fatal to the human kind than the plague itself would be.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The boy held no interest in Leon’s prime passions—sports, junk food, and cable television—and spent all his free time roaming.the woods and swamps. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Mist hung just above the trees, burning off in patches where bright sun dulled the intensity of red hibiscus blossoms, yellow morning glories, the purple centers of passion fruit flowers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z |
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