ruling passion
Example Sentences
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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
In fact, Smith's ruling passion is to disfranchise all monopolies that concentrate and protect hoarded capital.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Hard Life's crazy old man is Mr. Collopy, a sixtyish sack of Biblical malapropisms whose ruling passion is a campaign to get the Dublin City Corporation to install public rest rooms for women.
From Time Magazine Archive
The "ruling passion" is made apparent, even after death had given Sir Thomas the last "Hugg."
From Wrestling and Wrestlers: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting by Gilpin, Sidney
