Word: passion
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...always his passion conceal with a mask...
Decidedly the race has a passion for collections. Why should not I indulge in the universal rage, and collect autophones...
...wonderful Introduction and Finale from Wagner's favorite and best music-drama, Tristan. The despair of hopeless love has never been, and perhaps will never again be so well expressed in tones as here. But in interpreting it the chief defect of Thomas's orchestra was revealed. This glowing, passionate composition loses much in effectiveness by being played in such a measured and nicely calculated concert style. The whole opera is like one wild tumultuous torrent of ungovernable passion, and must be played a l' abandon, and with an unconscious enthusiasm and fervor, as if the musicians were blindly carried...
VENERABLE INSTRUCTOR (in a passion). Then take yours...
...Many a Sophomore complains bitterly of the state of his finances, and wishes he had waited until Senior year before indulging his passion for pitching pennies...