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Catharsis is the explosion or release of long-repressed feelings, the purgation of secret passions.
That planted the seed of my abiding love of Westerns which is still one of my passions.
By exciting false hopes of an ill-defined peace, we only inflame passions we cannot quench.
This derogation from representation is balanced against the need for independence from the passing passions that can excite legislators.
He remarks that the passions are also called affections or perturbations of the mind, as well as motions and affects.
Among Earnhardt's many passions was a keen love of deer hunting, fishing, and recreational activities.
It is their very irony that will appeal to precisely the people whose passions they parody.
The artistic passions of these winegrowers found the production of single-variety wines too limiting.
He was the watcher, aloof from the passions around him while others lived it.
It is precisely to temper the passions of the people that we resort to representative rather than direct democracy.
The prospect of war has roused strong passions, drawing politicians and public figures into pro and anti positions.
Upon arriving in Sonoma, she lit upon the idea of launching a high-end home store where she could combine both her passions under one roof.
Those are my passions and, not infrequently, their proponents and apologists will be my targets.
After discovering the manipulation of my passions for political ends, I committed apostasy and left my evangelical church.
Thompson is a sports freak, with archery, cricket and scuba diving among his passions.
The high passions aren't down to the two candidates' inspiring visions for the country.
The boy had about as much sense as his mother, letting his passions rule him instead of his head.
He was initially attracted to painting, which was to remain one of his passions.
Absence diminishes moderate passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes tapers and adds fury to fire.
They built the pub not on a template drawn-up by a committee of marketing men, but around their own enthusiasms and passions.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Will you give the reins to their untractable nature and their uncontrolled passions?
Time is the true remedy for all bad passions and for all anarchical doctrines.
Ambition is surely the most foolish and misjudging of all terrestrial passions.
Michelet and Quinet had added to their democratic zeal the passions connected with an anticlerical campaign.
In it we do not know the evil passions which ambition and strife are said to arouse.
Leave me to hatch, from the heat of their own passions, the basilisk which shall destroy them.
I had no right, as I told her, to suffer the innocence of her chrism to be soiled with the evil passions which were sin in me.
For the Irascible passions do follow the temper of the heart, but the concupiscible distractions the crasis of the liver.
He had consorted with men of uncontrollable passions and gone his steady path.
All my passions were roused, and my mind and body kept in continual activity.
This explains why they may be associated in the delirium of unbridled passions.
Even then we needed to pray for deliverance from those passions which have since pursued us.
Exactitude marks her time, her scene and her depiction of passions and emotions.
With his direr passions had been roused up all the native powers that made them doubly dangerous.
The secularist is one in whom the intellect is passionate, and the passions cold.
May not ech Wyght now behold how that the euents of loue be diuers from other passions of the mind?
For, Madam, could I be supposed to govern the passions of either of the gentlemen?
But neither his heart nor his reason had ever again been enslaved by his passions.
Passions it is, human passions, intermingling with the wrong itself that envenom the sense of wrong.
Has this fearful pestilence no power to restrain the appetites and passions of the people?
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