Word: passioned
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...central character of the piece is Argan, a middle-aged man, whose ruling passion is his selfish fear of death. Though in robust health, in "insultingly robust health," as one critic has said, Argan has always some imaginary ill, for which he consults quack physicians. The chief of these, M. Purgon, holds his cowardly patient in perfect subjection, threatening him with the most horrible maladies if he neglects to take the various doses prescribed...
...Gymnasium, the College would seem to be in a sorry plight as far as bathing facilities are concerned. In most of the dormitories there are no baths at all, and in none of them are there baths to spare: there must be hundreds of students who will find that passion for cleanliness, which seems characteristic of the Harvard undergraduate, ungratified. It does not seem quite fair that the College should bring students here and then leave them without the means to an end so important that it has been next to godliness. A way of escape from the difficulty seems...
...read that early in life a love of work became a ruling passion with him, and rest appeared to him to be intolerable. He made history his special study, and to it he devoted his whole heart. His mind was constantly turning towards remote objects of re-search and straining to attain them...
...Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare intended to represent the passion of love, and to do this he needed two stars. When Garrick and Barrie were playing Romeo in London, there was much dispute as to which of the two made the best Romeo. Mrs. Siddons, who was playing Juliet for both, was appealed to, and this is how she answered: "It is very difficult for me to decide, but I will tell you how they both affect me. In the balcony scene, when Garrick is making love as Romeo, he is so eager and ardent that I am afraid every moment...
...allegorical significance of this introduction to the Inferno is plain. Dante finds himself wandering helplessly in the dark, wretched forest of evil, and in order to reach the light attempts to climb the mountain of virtue, but is met and repulsed by passion and sensuality in the form of wild animals. He then meets reason in the person of Vergil, which shows him that the process of redemption is slow, and is not to be achieved by one great effort. He must rise through the purgatory of penitence. Dante tells us that there are many senses to his poem. Beside...