ruling passion
Example Sentences
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Nostalgia maintains its grip on the imagination and dominates as the ruling passion, he says, after greed, anger and resistance to authority.
From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2016
One article written after Heenan left America tut-tutted that his "ruling passion is the love of money" rather than love of country.
From Slate • May 5, 2010
Aviation was his ruling passion, and he pursued it as a flyer, aeronautical engineer, and founder of his own manufacturing firm, Airspeed Ltd.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Since the age of 15 poetry has been my ruling passion," he wrote in 1948, but he never expected this love to pay his bills.
From Time Magazine Archive
Suddenly, out of the limbo into which two years of laborious discipline and self-denial had pushed it stalked the demon of the ruling passion, mighty, overpowering, unconquerable.
From The City of Numbered Days by Lynde, Francis
