This passion for understanding was the product of conjuncture, the simultaneous explosion of global crisis-intellectual, economic, political and moral.
Even the ruthless radicalism with which the lovers embrace and pursue their passion to the exclusion of all else speaks to the new, harsher spirit.
Unfortunately, as the reader now knows, officials at our school lacked that commitment and hence that passion.
Here he depicts a congregation in high passion, from the wide-mouthed preacher to the disorderly listeners, weeping, eating, fainting, and otherwise carrying on.
Society must be guided by reason rather than the passions of superstition and religious prejudice.
This book, the last he published before his death last year, manages coherently to reflect all his passions.
Against the rationalists they argued that some passions were positive.
The orchestra now intones a long, painful, hymn-like passage, spending its remaining passion.