Word: passions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Rather Cold Passion. She is all right, of course, with Bond beside her in a blaze of bullets and burning motel...
...smolders in every good citizen. He is a professional murderer (the double zero in his secret-service designation of 007 indicates that he is one of the three operatives privileged to kill even when not acting in self-defense). In between assignments, he makes love "with rather cold passion, to one of three similarly disposed married women." And he can be as fast with the vodka martinis as with his Beretta .25; in the opening pages of Thunderball, he was in such bad shape that M had to send him to a sanitarium for a couple of weeks...
...candidate. He is a smalltown lawyer, has ideals, and spouts them. His supporters, including Emil Hornstein, his campaign manager, listen with horrified dismay and, unlike the reader, bury their misgivings. The plot is hand-me-down-hostile columnist, incriminating photograph, Communist smear-and between, Traver rambles on with flatfooted passion about half a hundred worthy causes dear to his heart. So dear to his heart, in fact, that Traver (in real life John Voelker) resigned as a justice of the Michigan Supreme Court to write this book. He should have stayed on the bench...
Nervi also ascribes the extraordinary aesthetic and emotional success of Gothic architecture to the "inseparable mixture of cold technique and fervid passion" which went into...
Divorce of Passion...