Word: passionate
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...patrician senator’s old rallying cry: “Well, this is a nuanced issue, Bob.” He has started to take on Bush far more aggressively than he ever did in the Senate. Listening to him speak these days, I can almost sense passion in his words...
Dean’s obvious passion was an important part of his appeal, but it wasn’t the whole thing. Dean created a new model for political organizing. By taking tough issues head-on and using stark language to portray the differences between Democrats and Republicans, he inspired a movement—a force that could replace political elites and large donors. To understand this political blueprint and its implications, it helps to know Denise Elliott...
Kerry may have taken the fire in Dean’s belly. But to truly capture what made Dean exciting, he must grasp the logic of Dean’s campaign. Dean’s passion built a movement that will last long after the 2004 election. If Kerry is to be worthy of that movement, he must understand why Elliott and others like her gave their time and effort to the Dean campaign. If Kerry, and the Democratic Party, learns this lesson, that will be Dean’s victory...
...went to see The Passion Of The Christ last Wednesday afternoon in a working-class neighborhood of the Bronx, with an audience--a full house--composed mostly of blacks and Latinos. It was a stunning experience in a way that I didn't expect. The first scene of scourging, in which giddy, leering Roman guards torture Jesus with canes, cudgels and whips studded with glass shards, evoked a powerful reaction from the audience. There were gasps and audible sobbing, which continued for some time. But as the torture went on, and on, as Jesus staggered through the Stations...
Then again, voters in the early Democratic primaries, a perversely serious minority of the electorate, rejected the passionate Howard Dean in favor of John Kerry, a candidate nuanced to the point of paralysis. In the dictionary, passion is defined as "suffering" first and then as "emotion ... as opposed to reason." Kerry isn't emotional, and he certainly isn't addicted to the explicit. In the year of The Passion, he stands as a quixotic reproach to the prevailing sensationalism, an unintentional rebel against our shock-a-minute culture...