passion
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Passion is strong or violent emotion, often so powerful that it takes over the mind or judgment: stirred to a passion of anger. Emotion is applied to an intensified feeling: agitated by emotion. Feeling is a general term for a subjective point of view as well as for specific sensations: to be guided by feeling rather than by facts; a feeling of sadness, of rejoicing. Sentiment is a mixture of thought and feeling, especially refined or tender feeling: Recollections are often colored by sentiment.
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Reggie Absolom, “Club Kid” “Dismal box office aside, there’s a lot of passion for ‘Digger’ burbling up from the internet.
From Los Angeles Times ā Oct. 28, 2026
Smith grew up in England playing soccer and rugby, and said he still has a passion for those sports as well.
From The Wall Street Journal ā Oct. 26, 2026
She started reading Bleach at age nine and became friends with fellow fan Nicholas Thong, 30, through their shared passion.
From BBC ā Oct. 26, 2026
Despite his deep passion, Chandrasekaran doesn’t necessarily see himself taking any sort of leading role on Hollywood if Raman were to be elected.
From Los Angeles Times ā Oct. 23, 2026
Might she have a chance both to support her small family and to follow her passion?
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
It leaves audiences asking if these climbers who die for their all-consuming passions are showing their kids what it means to really live, or turning their children into the collateral damage of their adult dreams.
From The Wall Street Journal ā Oct. 29, 2026
In Mr. Fiennes’s view, “no other French author has written with such intensity and such an exquisitely sharp eye for the natural world, or indeed about the needs and passions of the human one.”
From The Wall Street Journal ā Sep. 25, 2026
The humor comes from their passions not seeming worthy of the level of seriousness with which they pursue them.
From Los Angeles Times ā Sep. 25, 2026
"It's a place I don't want to come back to. I want to live my life, enjoy my passions and my memories of Ralph," he said.
From BBC ā Sep. 8, 2026
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.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Michelle Obama's Speech at the 2016 DNC
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