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
In fact, Smith's ruling passion is to disfranchise all monopolies that concentrate and protect hoarded capital.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gibbon's one ruling passion, contracted at the age of 27, nothing and nobody could cool.
From Time Magazine Archive
A love of reading was his ruling passion, and a prodigious memory his great talent.
From Curiosities of Human Nature by Anonymous
