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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.
Some critics (such as the New York Times ' Maslin) nearly fall out of their chairs in awe at the operatic splendor of the music and pageantry--"blazing with exquisite yet abstract passions."
Yet, blinded by his negative passions about state power in France, Tocqueville failed to grasp what his observations meant about the early American state.
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.
It seems that the Chinese people vacillate "between craving foreign goods and giving vent to anti-foreign passions."