Word: passional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members of his organization, celebrated their first anniversary by an all-night watch of snails (they roam chiefly at night) on the darkened byways of suburban London. . Like Henry V at Agincourt, the watchers could cry: "We few, we happy few"-for not only is conchophily a rare passion, but membership in the British Snail-Watching Society is rigorously limited to those devotees who take snails with high seriousness. "Lying in the grass, just watching, is not sufficient," says Heaton. The complete conchophilist must know snails in their nocturnal ramblings-as they scale the Himalayas of a graveled garden walk...
...course, that the Vatican is faced with some very great difficulties in any effort it may make to cooperate with the Protestants ... in even so vast a cause.... Its solemn claim to be the exclusive and infallible authority in all things spiritual ... [is] a hurdle which only a holy passion for the security of the world can enable it to surmount...
This belief was the essence of his gospel. For five decades, in most of his 76 volumes, Wells preached it with the intense passion and reckless zeal of a religious fanatic...
...kingdom that I mean united as one family and as one nation indivisible. I mean that this is not a matter of a sample for everybody. . . . But those that are living according to my teaching, they are redeemed from self indulgence and sex indulgence, human affection, lust and passion and all those detestable tendencies...
...historical fact, Caesar and Cleopatra lived together in the most literal sense of the phrase. Cleopatra bore him a son, Caesarion, who was promising enough to be assassinated eventually by order of Octavian. In Shaw's charming fiction, they warily skirt the quagmires of passion while the aging political genius, with rueful avuncular irony, helps to convert the puppet Queen from a fierce child into a woman, ripe for Mark Antony's plucking...