passion
Usage
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Passion is strong or violent emotion, often so powerful that it takes over the mind or judgment: stirred to a passion of anger. Emotion is applied to an intensified feeling: agitated by emotion. Feeling is a general term for a subjective point of view as well as for specific sensations: to be guided by feeling rather than by facts; a feeling of sadness, of rejoicing. Sentiment is a mixture of thought and feeling, especially refined or tender feeling: Recollections are often colored by sentiment.
Example Sentences
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Such passion reflects how theme parks have gone from referencing the past to becoming living landmarks in their own right.
His rejection of England’s imperial mythology is Romantic in its passion for philology and topology.
With grace and passion, Ms. Chan makes the case for music as a catalyst for submerged emotions so intense, so combustible, they can generate more art.
“Not trying to aim too high but just being true to ourselves, doing what we love to do, keeping this passion. That is our goal forever.”
From Los Angeles Times
It’s such a great year for movies and you talk with such passion and conviction — almost as an ambassador of movies — about how important they are to you.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
