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
Gibbon's one ruling passion, contracted at the age of 27, nothing and nobody could cool.
From Time Magazine Archive
By then a fascination with Trujillo's iron personality and Trujillo's absolute rule had become the ruling passion of Galindez' life.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of the constant creeds of the age, handed down from the old comedy of humours, was the belief in the "ruling passion" as the source of all a man's acts.
From Shelburne Essays, Third Series by More, Paul Elmer
