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
Ignatius' ruling passion is his utter contempt for the modern age; its manifestations make his pyloric valve close, trapping gas in his cavernous stomach.
From Time Magazine Archive
In fact, Smith's ruling passion is to disfranchise all monopolies that concentrate and protect hoarded capital.
From Time Magazine Archive
We sometimes hear of the ruling passion that is strong in death.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar
