Word: passion
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...trial has already provided drama. "I am here because of the decision of one man and the obsession of one man: Nicolas Sarkozy," Villepin declared, with the type of flair and indignant passion that he used to irk American officials when, as French Foreign Minister, he floridly denounced U.S. plans to invade Iraq. By way of retort, Sarkozy created an uproar on a nationally televised interview by referring to the defendants in the case as "guilty," ignoring the presumption of innocence central to France's legal system. The people responsible for the smear, Sarkozy said earlier, should "hang...
...Nair ignores not only the connotations that air travel has acquired in recent years but also the incredulity that Earhart’s consuming ambition will inspire in viewers given last year’s financial collapse. We no longer live in Earhart’s era of optimism, passion, and, yes, recklessness. But even with its predetermined ending, “Amelia” does not come across as a cautionary tale; it is homage to a time very similar to ours, save from its refrain from skepticism in order to maintain hope...
...Through disciplined imagination, and through passion, one makes the leap to developing an empathetic understanding of the world,” Ma said...
...keeping with the Silk Road residency’s theme of “inspiring passion-driven education,” Ma also led an interactive workshop featuring performances from Harvard College musicians...
...been a long time since abstract art was a religion. For most artists now, it's just an option, a mode they can pursue or ignore as it suits them. But once it was a passion, a polemic, a faith. Wassily Kandinsky, one of its founders, could talk about geometric forms as though they were sacred images - and to him, they were. In a burst of high feeling he could argue, with a straight face, that "the contact between the acute angle of a triangle and a circle has no less effect than that of God's finger touching Adam...