ruling passion
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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
The Times of London, says he is one of the most noteworthy of British Prime Ministers—an idealist and a pacifist guiding the country when idealism and pacifism are not the ruling passion of the world.
From Time Magazine Archive
Because he conceived his mission as didactic, Blake's ruling passion was exactness.
From Time Magazine Archive
True to her ruling passion, even in death, she turned for a moment to gaze after her young one, reeled, and fell head foremost to the ground.
From Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. by Various
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