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
Gibbon's one ruling passion, contracted at the age of 27, nothing and nobody could cool.
From Time Magazine Archive
With the ability and ambitious conduct which we have just remarked in St. Paul it is difficult to conceive that humility could have been his ruling passion.
From Critical Examination of the Life of St. Paul by Annet, Peter
