passions run high
the Passion
noun[ S ]
uk /ˈpæʃ.ən/ us /ˈpæʃ.ən/
in Christianity, the suffering and death of Jesus Christ耶稣受难

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passion | American Dictionary

passion
noun
us/ˈpæʃ·ən/

passionnoun (EMOTION)

[ C/U ]
a powerful emotion or its expression, esp. the emotion of love, anger, or hate:
[ U ]romantic passion
[ C ]Passions were running high in the aftermath of the accident.

passionnoun (STRONG INTEREST)

[ C ]
something that you are strongly interested in and enjoy:
She has two passions in life – her cats and opera.

Examples of passion

passion
His passion for architecture arose from a belief that good design enhanced the life of those that experienced it.
He believed that only very few men are gifted with intellectual faculties that can rise above mere passions.
These passions, properly speaking, produce good and evil and proceed not from them, like the other affections.
The lyrics are mildly plaintive love poems and the music does not so much excite passion as entertain soothingly.
According to some understandings of human freedom, it makes no sense to speak of a response to appetite or passion as a voluntary act.
While ' craft ' was a foil for ' conscience ', virtue and liberty were complemented by - indeed, unattainable without - true religion, which moderated the passions.
The first draft is always the best, because that's the one you write with maximum passion and curiosity.
The orchestra now intones a long, painful, hymn-like passage, spending its remaining passion.
Against the rationalists they argued that some passions were positive.
This book, the last he published before his death last year, manages coherently to reflect all his passions.
Society must be guided by reason rather than the passions of superstition and religious prejudice.
Here he depicts a congregation in high passion, from the wide-mouthed preacher to the disorderly listeners, weeping, eating, fainting, and otherwise carrying on.
Unfortunately, as the reader now knows, officials at our school lacked that commitment and hence that passion.
Even the ruthless radicalism with which the lovers embrace and pursue their passion to the exclusion of all else speaks to the new, harsher spirit.
This passion for understanding was the product of conjuncture, the simultaneous explosion of global crisis-intellectual, economic, political and moral.
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