Use passions in a sentence
Sentences ending with passions
- For her sake you are bold enough to try now and then to quell the stormy sea of my passions. [10]
- Remember, I have wealth more than wit can number; I have had power more than kings could emcompass; yet the world seems a desert; all nature appears an afflictive spectacle of warring passions. [5]
- It is just there, in the very centre of our modern civilization, that one sees the crudest passions. [9]
- When Homer describes the battle of the gods and noble men fighting with giants and dragons, they represent under this image our struggles with the delusions of our passions. [5]
- That is a poor man who is no stronger than his passions. [11]
- She had genuine passions, and her sins would be in behalf of those genuine passions. [11]
- In a day of sunshine the rebellious and discontented spirit does not thrive; on a wet day it is apt to take shelter; on a bleak, grey day men are prone to huddle together in their anger with consequent stimulation of their passions. [11]
- But we ourselves must not decline the burden of responsibility, nor take counsel of unworthy passions. [7]
- And when the gray dawn came he rose, a gloomy, almost heartbroken man, but victor over evil passions. [13]
- Until the last few days there had been little in her life to rouse passions. [13]
More example sentences with the word passions in them
- I don't 'old with temptin' the weak passions of man. [11]
- The storm of wind and rain that had swept down the ravine was not wilder than her passions when I left her with Justine in the dark night. [11]
- The passions and wild love and irresponsible deeds of the life he had lived in years gone by were here. [11]
- The aboriginal passions were strong in him. [11]
- She had no weak passions and no futilities. [11]
- Princess Mary had two passions and consequently two joys--her nephew, little Nicholas, and religion--and these were the favorite subjects of the prince's attacks and ridicule. [2]
- We are all turned loose with our animal passions and instincts, of self-preservation, by an indifferent Creator, in a wilderness, and left to find our way out as best we can. [9]
- Horapollo had foreseen, too, that the danger which threatened the Mukaukas' son would fan Paula's passions like a fresh breeze; and Joanna, frail, ailing Joanna! [10]
- Novels that are to run through a year, or maybe many years, and are to set forth the passions and trials of changing age and varying circumstance, require different treatment and wider millinery knowledge. [4]
- It is impossible to eradicate the passions; but we must strive to direct them to a noble aim, and it is therefore necessary that everyone should be able to satisfy his passions within the limits of virtue. [2]
- But I sought to curb my sentiments, my indignation, at the manner in which the working-man had been treated; to appeal to the common sense rather than to the passions of my audiences. [9]
- They would like to be of the world again, and enter into its feelings, passions, hopes; to feel the sweep of its current, and so to comprehend what it has become. [4]
- For he would then, as we may safely conclude, have been guided more by his instinctive passions, and less by foresight or reason. [1]
- Each step of the retreat was accompanied by a complicated interplay of interests, arguments, and passions at headquarters. [2]
- Ah, it is the pale passions that are the fiercest,--it is the violence of the chill that gives the measure of the fever! [6]
- He was probably the only man who could have guided the nation through the perplexities of the reconstruction period in such a manner as to prevent in the work of peace the revival of the passions of the war. [7]
- But even in the midst of these surges of passion I was conscious of the birth of a new force I did not understand, and which I resented, that had arisen to give battle to my passions and desires. [9]
- To our eyes the legitimate drama of to-day is the one in which the day is reflected, both in costume and speech, and which touches the affections, the passions, the humor, of the present time. [4]
- Luke Claridge closed the eyes, straightened the body, and crossed the hands over the breast which had been the laboratory of many conflicting passions of life. [11]
- The fountains of the deep had been broken up, and Sybil Eglington's repressed emotions, undeveloped passions, tortured by mortal sufferings, and refined and vitalised by the atmosphere blown in upon her last hours from the Hereafter, were set free, given voice and power at last. [11]
- His intellect more than his passions were now at work. [11]
- There came a swift revulsion, all passions stormed in her at once. [11]
- Amid passions so strong as these there is not one lacking. [4]
- Heads are not so cheap in our Anglo-Saxon countries; passions not so fierce and uncontrollable. [9]
- The flood of schemes and passions, which had surged so high during the night, ebbed under the clear light of day. [10]
- Then began a process of domestic torture which alienated Noreen from him, and roused in her the worst passions of human nature. [11]
- It was inherited predisposition, the unregulated passions of her forebears, the mating of the fields, the generated dominance of the body, which was not to be commanded into obscurity, but must taunt and tempt her while her soul sickened. [11]
- I mean the powerful influence which the interesting scenes of the Revolution had upon the passions of the people as distinguished from their judgment. [7]
- And in this planning, his trip to Cottonwoods, with its revived hate of Tull and consequent unleashing of fierce passions, soon faded out of mind. [13]
- And then came perplexities, difficulties, interests, and conflicting passions in life that he had not suspected, good that looked like evil, and evil that had an alloy of virtue, and the way was confused. [4]
- They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps. [7]
- There is an old story that Matthews, the actor, was once lauding the ability of the human face to express the passions and emotions hidden in the breast. [5]
- He was one of the learned circle which gathered round Julia Domna, and it was by her desire that he had accompanied Caracalla, to keep his mad passions in check when it might be possible. [10]
- In the eyes of a complacent, arm-chair historian he must have appeared one of the, strange and terrifying creatures which, in times of upheaval, are thrust from the depths of democracies to the surface, with gifts to voice the longings and passions of those below. [9]
- Or was there never a place for such evil passions in your dove-like soul? [10]
- She knew him much better, for primitive people are quicker in the play of their passions, and she had come to love him before he had begun to notice her at all. [11]
- He is neither moral nor immoral, but a calm and profound observer of human society and human passions, and a minute, patient, and powerful delineator of scenes and characters in the world before his eyes. [6]
- Cleopatra has done many things which are forgiven only in a queen, but that she should become the tool of her brother's basest passions, even you, Philammon, could hardly regard as likely, though you are always prepared to expect evil rather than good. [10]
- He was the man who had roused in me last night the fiercest passions of my life, and yet this morning he had saved me from death, and, though he was still my sworn enemy, I was about to breakfast with him. [11]
- Curiosities, doubts, passions, longings, antagonisms--all these seemed--as the most natural thing in the world--to have been fused into one common but ineffable emotion. [9]
- All the whole list of desires, predilections, aversions, ambitions, passions, cares, griefs, regrets, remorses, are incipient madness, and ready to grow, spread, and consume, when the occasion comes. [5]
- There is nothing like listening to an artist--all his passions passing away in lava, smoke, thunder, lightning, and earthquake. [5]
- In their monotonous life, devoid of occupation, envy easily becomes hatred, and the gratification of these evil passions is the only compensation which the poor creatures can obtain for the total absence of love and loss of freedom. [10]
- The deeper into life and its labours and experiences he had gone, the greater had been his temptations, born of two passions, one of the body and its craving, the other of the heart and its desires: and he had fought on--towards the morning. [11]
- Life there has its joys and sorrows and passions, its ambitions, and heart-burnings, to be sure; a most absorbing novel could be written about it, and the author need not go beyond the city limits or approach the state-house or the Pelican Hotel. [9]
- We are hustled into maturity reeling with our passions and imaginations, and we have drifted far away from port before we awake out of our illusions. [6]
- Blushing means nothing, in some persons; in others, it betrays a profound inward agitation,--a perturbation of the feelings far more trying than the passions which with many easily moved persons break forth in tears. [6]
- Sexual selection, which implies the possession of considerable perceptive powers and of strong passions, seems to have been more effective with the Lamellicorns than with any other family of beetles. [1]
- That man with his hasty passions was never made to be a prince of peace. [10]
- Man prompted by his conscience, will through long habit acquire such perfect self-command, that his desires and passions will at last yield instantly and without a struggle to his social sympathies and instincts, including his feeling for the judgment of his fellows. [1]
- He saw in her the awakening of the deeper interests of life, the tremulous apprehension of nascent emotions and passions which, at some time or other, give beauty and importance to the nature of every human being. [11]
- He belonged to her realm of the imagination, of thought, of insight, of intellectual passions and the desires of the soul. [11]
- She, too, in her feminine sphere, exercised, and subtly, a power in which human passions were deeply involved. [9]
- What vegetable passions have run the whole gamut of ambition, selfishness, greed of place, fruition, satiety, and now rest here in the truce of exhaustion! [4]
- The passions which had tortured it and driven it hither and thither through a wayward life had fled: the power gone that would brook no guiding hand, that had known no master. [9]
- Nor is the growth of democratic leaders, when seen through the distorted passions of their day, apparently a consistent thing. [9]
- There were a good many passengers, but I had very little to say to them; reading and dreaming were my passions, and I avoided conversation in order to indulge these appetites. [5]
- These robust men give rein to all their passions, delight in the strength of their limbs like Carmen, indulge in coarse language, undisguised sensuality, enjoy gross jests, brutal buffooneries. [4]
- Those were the first days of the war, when the wages of our passions first came to appal us. [9]
- It was to find Felix Marchand's price, and to buy off his enmity--not by money, for Marchand did not need that, but by those other coins of value which are individual to each man's desires, passions and needs. [11]
- Revolutions tend to express the extremes of the philosophies of their times--human desires, discontents, and passions that cannot be organized. [9]
- Shakespeare has put everything into his plays and poems, swept the whole range of human sympathies and passions, and at times is inspired by the sweetest spirit that ever man had. [4]
- It was a deadly mood, utterly foreign to his nature, engendered, fostered, and released by the wild passions of wild men in a wild country. [13]
- Apprehension of public danger and facilities for treasonable practices have diminished with the passions which prompted heedless persons to adopt them. [7]
- Primitive passions are corporate of many feelings but of little sight. [11]
- A geographical line coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. [7]
- But again they brought trouble to the mother; for they were stirred by fierce passions, under whose influence they attacked and rent each other. [10]
- A little time before they had all gone to Glencader, however, he had discovered something concerning this agent of Paul Kruger in the heart of the Outlander camp, whom he employed, which had roused in him the worst passions of an outcast mind. [11]
- Thus musical tones became firmly associated with some of the strongest passions an animal is capable of feeling, and are consequently used instinctively, or through association when strong emotions are expressed in speech. [1]
- We get a base-line in organization, always; then we get an angle by sighting some distant object to which the passions or aspirations of the subject of our observation are tending; then another;--and so we construct our first triangle. [6]
- Now he travelled back into new avenues of his mind and found strange, aboriginal passions, fully adapted to the present situation. [11]
- Ebn Ezra drew away towards the palm-tree, and stood at this distance watching anxiously, for he knew what dark passions seize upon the Oriental--and Achmet had many things for which to take vengeance. [11]
- These men, carried away by their passions, were but blind tools of the most melancholy law of necessity, but considered themselves heroes and imagined that they were accomplishing a most noble and honorable deed. [2]
- He watched Barouche, and he deplored the triumph in his eye, for there was no surety of winning; his own was the scientific mind without emotions or passions. [11]
- He and she alike would probably pay for the deed with their life; for the murder of his lion would inevitably rouse Caesar's wildest passions. [10]
- For the smallest actions of these rare men of master passions so compel us. [9]
- The embers of a man's passions will suddenly burst into flame, and he will fiddle madly while the fire burns his soul. [9]
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