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
"Since the age of 15 poetry has been my ruling passion," he wrote in 1948, but he never expected this love to pay his bills.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Vanity, not avarice," he announced, "is my ruling passion."
From Time Magazine Archive
Our nation has indeed shown that the lust of gain is at present her ruling passion.
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret
