Example sentences for: passions

How can you use “passions” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Book -- Dispatches From the Freud Wars: Psychoanalysis and Its Passions , by John Forrester.

  • The Post serves up an acute description of what transpired: the administration reps found themselves caught between opposing passions (about being two tough on Iraq, about not being tough enough) armed only with a largely passionless argument.

  • For surely,Nothing can so disturb the passions, or Perplex the intellects of man so much,As the disruption of this union withVisible nature, separation from allThat has delighted or engaged him, a changeNot only of the place but of the mannerOf his being, an entrance into a state Not simply which he knows not, but perhapsA state he has not faculties to know."

  • That infamous act of judicial will, which served only to fuel the passions for war, held that a former slave could never become the citizen of any state.

  • In October, St. Martin's Press will publish an anthology of essays from the Times Higher Education Supplement titled Consuming Passions: Food in the Age of Anxiety . The book's co-editor Jennifer Wallace, a lecturer at Cambridge University, suggests that food is a source of reassurance in troubling times.


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