passion

In an age when every middle-class household could afford a few hearth gods, the superior collector consummated his passion for beauty against the “prevailing winds of progress, fashion, democracy, money, and modernity.”

Her twin passions for her homeland and lyrical artistry bloom on every page.

Then there was resignation rather than anger, but on Thursday it was channelled into passion.

This would tend to limit corruption and keep “eruptions of passion,” to borrow a phrase of Hamilton’s, from swaying things too immediately and dramatically.

But all the projects were done with passion and the hope they would be creatively successful.