passions
Example Sentences
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Above them hang paintings, art being another of Perea’s passions, most of them made by his friends.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
It complemented his fragmented musical architecture, just as the blocked passions of the film’s characters are captured in his unresolved harmonies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
They knew that Roman strongmen like Marius and Caesar had been products of democracy—demagogues lifted up by the passions of the crowd.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
In its IPO prospectus about a decade later, the company pitched itself as a way for sports enthusiasts to share their adventures and passions.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
These are, in fact, the engineering artifacts of intelligent beings: roads, highways, canals, farmland, city streets—a pattern disclosing the twin human passions for Euclidean geometry and territoriality.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
