Catharsis is the explosion or release of long-repressed feelings, the purgation of secret passions. |
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That planted the seed of my abiding love of Westerns which is still one of my passions. |
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By exciting false hopes of an ill-defined peace, we only inflame passions we cannot quench. |
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This derogation from representation is balanced against the need for independence from the passing passions that can excite legislators. |
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He remarks that the passions are also called affections or perturbations of the mind, as well as motions and affects. |
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Among Earnhardt's many passions was a keen love of deer hunting, fishing, and recreational activities. |
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It is their very irony that will appeal to precisely the people whose passions they parody. |
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The artistic passions of these winegrowers found the production of single-variety wines too limiting. |
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He was the watcher, aloof from the passions around him while others lived it. |
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It is precisely to temper the passions of the people that we resort to representative rather than direct democracy. |
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The prospect of war has roused strong passions, drawing politicians and public figures into pro and anti positions. |
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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. |
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Those are my passions and, not infrequently, their proponents and apologists will be my targets. |
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After discovering the manipulation of my passions for political ends, I committed apostasy and left my evangelical church. |
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Thompson is a sports freak, with archery, cricket and scuba diving among his passions. |
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The high passions aren't down to the two candidates' inspiring visions for the country. |
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The boy had about as much sense as his mother, letting his passions rule him instead of his head. |
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He was initially attracted to painting, which was to remain one of his passions. |
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Absence diminishes moderate passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes tapers and adds fury to fire. |
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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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Natural history and sailing were among his passions, and his enthusiasms were enhanced by his travels. |
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In today's world, obsessions become possessions and passions become fashions. |
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They write about their current musical passions and highlight upcoming gigs and events. |
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This project is quite organic and it really is dependent on who is here and the particular passions and interests. |
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It is the same souls that quiver, the same passions that ferment, the same vices that grow, the same straining toward the azure. |
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Despite these inauspicious circumstances, it soon became clear that the two shared artistic and personal passions. |
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The smell of the sweet South Pacific sea air mingling with vivid island flowers excites the passions. |
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Similarly East Timor excited passions and dredged up long-suppressed feelings of national guilt. |
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So, since their sectional interest excites no passions amongst the populace, some are attracted by more radical measures. |
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The disorder that displacement causes excites contemporary passions, for and against. |
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These are people who long ago recognised that the time-servers of the existing political parties had nothing for them and their passions. |
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In the wake of a sensational murder case, local newspapers printed lurid headlines and helped increase passions in the city. |
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In the two stories and one novella, human passions become frighteningly, titanically powerful. |
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Chess takes the place of all the other passions, and the people in his life, including his parents, become shadowy, meaningless figures. |
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Yet individuals do not have to be rich or famous for their passions to give shape to a community. |
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Yet passions will be inflamed in this instance, and complete transparency of the process is required. |
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Indulging your passions and interests is another method of meeting simpatico folk. |
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Concentration on the self, quelling the passions, and becoming calm are the hallmarks of this path, the goal of which is bliss. |
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He was a man of violent passions, easily moved to anger and outbursts of his famous temper, at times uncontrollable. |
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No enslavement and no tyranny are as ruthless and as demanding as slavery to physical desires and passions. |
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Perceptions are muted and muddled, the passions cool, and thoughts drift to the dreary. |
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As a lifelong devotee to cycling, it was a natural choice for Rick to combine both of his greatest passions. |
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How sad it is to write this brief valedictory for this senator who never abandoned the fiery passions that first fueled his entry into politics. |
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Danielpour demands much from his chorus in this piece, asking them to convey a range of passions associated with human suffering. |
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But, what if the school could use these children's passions as a springboard to further learning? |
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But better not inflame passions with references to Hades or the netherworld? |
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Sheriff explicates the metaphor of fire as it was used to connect nymphomania to the passions, including enthusiasm. |
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I'm just committed to extirpating self-destructive and destructive passions. |
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The Babylonians claimed that haruspication was the invention of the gods, and that the passions were housed not in the heart, but the liver. |
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I found the juxtaposition naive, given my background in Stoic philosophy of managing the passions in public life. |
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There is an interesting logic to the six direct passions, which Hume borrowed from a tradition that can be traced to ancient Greek Stoicism. |
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It is easy to misuse one of the most heartfelt passions of mankind, namely, religion. |
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Its only reliable effect is to magnify the relevance of the issues it touches, with drama and heated passions typical of its influence. |
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It was a fitting tribute to a man whose love of the arts, especially fine art, classical music and opera, is one of his great passions. |
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Many feel she could've gone to greater things as an actress, but it was as an opera singer where her passions truly lay. |
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I'm glad that my passions have been otherwise engaged, concerned with poetry and art, and with my own small affairs. |
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In the final analysis, outsiders may wonder why passions are running so high on both sides of the divide. |
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As always, passions will be running high at the start of the game and the play will be fast and furious. |
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So the melodramatic passions, the obsessions and the compulsions, seemed to arrive by ambush, like a sucker punch. |
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He portrays the young wife as a heroic suppressor of her own inclinations and passions for the common good. |
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He is a bland, pallid individual who seems to have nothing but the interests and passions of his dead relatives to guide him through life. |
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One of his major passions is horse racing and one of his goals is to be a race commentator. |
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This comedy of disguises, errors and errant passions competes with the most hilarious of pantos. |
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Gaelic football and hurling have been arousing Irish passions for a long, long time. |
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One day, their passions overcame them and they took off for her house, where they made passionate love all afternoon. |
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Much of what he writes in the chapter is a pastiche of statements made in De l' Usage des passions. |
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That figures of the cloth have been associated with prosecutorial misconduct and the passions of the mob is one of this case's many ironies. |
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The spark that ignited communal passions in the State was the burning of some compartments in a train that carried activists of the saffron camp. |
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Our passions, they concede, make us false, foolish, inconstant, and uncertain. |
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Their respect for the captain operated as a check to the incontinence of their passions. |
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You are looking for a fearless lover, one willing to create a romance that will unleash your passions. |
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The febrile excitement of the story is sustained by the use of rapid action, exotic locales, and exaggerated passions, often cruel or prurient. |
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The fall of New Orleans in April 1862, combined with the Federal threat against Mobile, inflamed public passions. |
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The value of citizenship is eroded in the enthusiasm of these outfits to inflame communal passions to win adherents to the extremist cult. |
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No reasonable settlement is possible in the mood engendered by war because war inflames passions and makes men delirious. |
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The inflamer of passions was glamorous guitarist Tom who, together with his brother James, was the band's eye-popping focus. |
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Words leave the page and become real, and you gain rare insight into the authors, their books, and their passions. |
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They have had leaders who have helped to cultivate the passions and commitments of congregational life. |
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The Quaker was a fresh-faced old man who had never been ill, because he had never known passions or intemperance. |
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They don't fire the imagination or arouse the passions like the aristocratic love of honor. |
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However, an analysis of early modern constructions of perception and the role of the passions, reveals something slightly different. |
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Perhaps every writer of fiction suspects himself or herself to be a cold fish at heart, a mere spectator of other people's joys and passions. |
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He was also an endearingly tetchy coot whose prejudices, passions, and irascibility remained uncompromised over time. |
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I really do think it's perfectly OK to expose one's passions and prejudices in unashamedly polemic writing on a blog. |
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I'm going to spend the next few months trying my damnedest to tiptoe through the mine fields of other people's political passions. |
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Poetry is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language. |
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The paintings seemed stirred by the same passions that fuel the Spanish love for bullfights. |
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We let the Supreme Court make the final decision because they are the furthest removed from popular passions. |
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The new field of imagery may not provoke the passions of an image war, but we are often troubled by a pronounced need to know. |
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Illicit psychoactive drugs agitate minds and arouse passions even among non-users. |
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I know passions tend to run high on this kind of subject, but can we all at least try to agree to differ and respect each other's paths? |
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Anti-Arab racism does not emanate from a single source, and certainly is not limited to passions stemming from the Arab-Israeli conflict. |
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Can we expect to defeat terrorism without also discrediting the ideas and passions that underlie it? |
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A free person is enslaved neither to the sheer will of another nor to his own appetites and passions. |
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It appears that the govt. asked the ISPs to block certain blogs that had the potential to whip up religious passions. |
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The idea of a philosophical exposition of the human passions was by no means new. |
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Because caricatures break down when you see over-heated political passions with a sense of perspective. |
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Gradually, the pagan and sexual passions the moon inspires demonstrate that these inhibitive prisons cannot prevent the transgressive mingling of sacred and profane love. |
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We all need to combat stereotypes and chauvinistic passions. |
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There might be a third reason, namely, that this reticent, withdrawn man felt wary of immersing himself for too long in the elemental passions of the ordinary West Indian. |
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Between the two, we are buffeted by profit, partisanship and passions. |
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Being cast in a role like Llewyn was kismet for Isaac, providing an outlet for all of his passions. |
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It was rather a grouping in the sense of Charles Fourier's socialist cells or groupuscules, based, as Breton insisted, on the idea that all passions are good. |
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The framers of the American Constitution believed that under a system of direct election the president would become slavishly responsive to popular passions. |
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Nor was it ignorance that spurred him to fashion numerous additional devices that ensured his plague picture would kindle its audience's most painful passions. |
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For decades, Americans have escaped to San Miguel for the culture, climate, and to pursue their artistic passions. |
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He was reflecting, perhaps, on the vanity of human passions. |
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State of exaltation or excitement of the spirits or passions. |
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The freedom to share yourself, that is, your passions, your fears, your secret desires, your wishes with others is one of the greatest treasures of mankind. |
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Maybe after elections, when the passions will cool down the whole issue would be considered on its merits and demerits without bringing in extraneous and irrelevant issues. |
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Before long, passions come to a boil for them on both sides of the English Channel. |
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An ardent linguist proficient in ancient Oriental languages, Napp had many other passions, including horticulture, viniculture, and fruit growing. |
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Encouraged by her parents to follow her passions, Julie took dance classes from the age of two, moving on to a drama group and graduating to Scottish Youth Theatre. |
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In a world of coded language and social niceties, Willis has no qualms about expressing his loves, hates, fears and passions in the bluntest possible terms. |
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He said he was devastated because Levi's and fashion were his passions. |
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In our new series, The Collectors Project, we will profile these fascinating individuals of varying passions. |
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When passions are enflamed, people will be less willing to sit down and negotiate with someone they view as an aggressor. |
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Relationships are continuously played out as a game, an endeavour that appeases the passions, as each character presents their vulgar view of the non-existence of love. |
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We will always have to acknowledge that the natural self, and the human passions, are shaped and conditioned by forces of culture, learning, and history. |
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This is promoted by a system of rituals which reinvoke and celebrate the original passions of the primal crime, designed to expiate feelings of guilt. |
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The Arien personality may be energetic, enthusiastic, and intrigued by excitement, but the Virgo inner nature holds some of those passions in check. |
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He was a charismatic loose cannon, a leader with the makings of greatness repeatedly brought low by his own untamed passions and headstrong impulsiveness. |
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With irony and wit he charmed a nation, but displayed a detachment that kept him aloof from the passions of his time. |
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You now had jokes in common, passions, dreams, and that you had a weirdness of your own that she actually wanted to understand. |
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They are winds that put the mind in tumult, sweeping us along like ships in a gale, and as storms disturb the harmony of nature, passions are discordant and jangling. |
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Man's passions may turn vicious, but without them he is unredeemable. |
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Even poetry has been called into play to heighten the passions of the actors in this dangerous drama. |
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This book is fascinating not because of exploding bombs and smouldering passions, but because of the perplexing subtleties it offers about a life often judged uninteresting. |
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In this context, is it really that surprising that parents get stroppier with teachers than previously they might have done, and that passions explode on both sides? |
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For Gandhi, a dharmik was a master of controlling passions, fears, untruth, and, most importantly, gave practical witness of profound love for others. |
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Even as both prepare to move into different tracks, it is evident that their involvement with the feminist movement and publishing are their foremost passions. |
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We saw how such provocative actions only inflamed passions and escalated the unrest. |
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Two star-crossed medieval lovers, Abelard and Heloise, are again stirring passions in France as a literary controversy rages nearly 900 years after their affair. |
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We like certain old cars because we find them aesthetically satisfying and sometimes very beautiful, historically interesting and often powerful evokers of youthful passions. |
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Contract bridge was one of the great passions in her life and everyone marvelled at her grasp of complex strategies such as Acol. |
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A consideration of the rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would affect them upon solid and pure principles. |
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Now envy and antipathy, passions irreconcilable in reason, nevertheless in fact may spring conjoined like Chang and Eng in one birth. |
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What differences of sense and reason, what contrarietie of imaginations doth the diversitie of our passions present unto us? |
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The most perfect, who have their passions in the best discipline, are yet obliged to be constantly on their guard. |
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The rise of the Internet poured gasoline on the fire, creating spaces for feminerds to come out of the woodwork and share their passions. |
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Your geeky passions may differ slightly, and so the variations you teach your geeklings should as well. |
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His approach is also personal, reflecting his hyperactivism, his passions and his determination to promote French business around the world. |
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Elizabeth managed to moderate and quell the intense religious passions of the time. |
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As he rose, his countenance became flushed and blacked by the terrific passions which the crisis awakened. |
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This new parliament did not meet for thirteen months, because Charles wanted to give passions a chance to die down. |
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This was calculated to appeal to the passions of the populace of towns who appeared to have particular complaints against friars. |
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But she was not just a pretty face. She was brilliant, accomplished, powerful, and tough-minded, a woman of burning passions. |
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He asks how pagan gods who exhibit the same destructive passions and obscene desires as wicked humans can be worthy of worship. |
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One of Louis's other passions was the game of golf, in which he also played a historic role. |
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Ethics was the problem of how to deal with these passions and restore reason as the dominant faculty. |
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Foreigners, soldiers and merchants, threw off all restraint in the indulgence of their passions. |
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They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps. |
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But many times we complain, repine, and mutter without a cause, we give way to passions we may resist and will not. |
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The soul, considered abstractly from its passions, is of a remiss, sedentary nature. |
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Never does man appear to greater disadvantage than when he is the sport of his own ungoverned passions. |
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And if so, then these passions, these impulses, cannot be altogether blind and unpurposing. |
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We are divested of all those passions which cloud the intellects, and warp the understandings, of men. |
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Supporters and foes commend Pearson's deftness at getting things done, her ability to buttress her passions with an armload of facts. |
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Poll's authority is undermined by each autograph he signs, every swearword he returns with interest when Premiership passions overflow. |
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Glenn Ford falls into a hotbed of repressed passions when married rancher Ernest Borgnine hires him as a cowhand. |
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Outdoorsmen run the gamut from simple to complex in passions and involvement. |
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The piece is called Butterfly, 2005, and it conflates the passions of the sports fan and the lepidopterist. |
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Suspensions and debarments to exclude government contractors from the federal marketplace incite passions on all sides. |
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The pacifistic avoidance of revenge preserves the social order by imposing constraints of civility on individual passions. |
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By emphasising objectivity, it reduced passions to a pendulum, arguing in intellectualist terms about what were deep emotions. |
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Director Park Chan-wook mixes Grand Guignol, black humour, melodramatic passions and stunningly choreographed action to remarkable effect. |
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They are two of the passions uniting our tiny island with the ginormous country that is Brazil, host for the World Cup. |
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As a composer, he melodised the dreams and pains of people, the passions and hopes of our country. |
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In the passing years the two drift apart and come together, never entirely separated because of the pulls and passions of first love. |
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There are a lot of successful coaches who never wore their passions on their sleave,'' Guerrero said. |
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As for the immediate future, 42-year-old Rush hopes Wednesday's money-spinning friendly will re-ignite the passions of Wrexham's fans. |
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Writ in its history are all the ills and passions of the past century. |
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Duchenne did not thus merely discard physiognomy and classical pathognomy, the 'metaphysics' to which passions had been relegated. |
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Students who get straight A's have an ability to prudentially master their passions so they can achieve proficiency across a range of subjects. |
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The city has unleashed messianic passions since Biblical times. |
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All the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment. |
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As the chronicler of the subtler alchemistry that the passage of time wreaks, Proust understood the transitoriness of all things, and particularly of all passions. |
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An habitude of commanding his passions in order to his health. |
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Many of these designations have become muted with time, as the passions which fired the debate have cooled and most parishes have found a happy medium or accommodation. |
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Jousting and hunting were popular sports in the Western Europe of the Middle Ages, and the aristocratic classes of Europe developed passions for leisure activities. |
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Men may live together in society with some tolerable degree of security, though there is no civil magistrate to protect them from the injustice of those passions. |
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Furthermore, they argued, political divisiveness was also universal and inevitable because of selfish passions that were integral to human nature. |
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In many parts of the world football evokes great passions and plays an important role in the life of individual fans, local communities, and even nations. |
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He thought that this was a reflection of the lack of principles in women, who are more likely to follow their own passions and inclinations than men. |
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Society at that epoch was lenient, if not lax, in matters of the passions. |
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However, when these passions meet the reality of bull thistle, coddling moths and pondscum many newer rural property owners become deeply frustrated. |
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By investigating acting manuals, treatises on the passions, and writings on the gesticulatory arts, she argues for the importance of figurative language in Bernini's pieces. |
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This openness for unlimited imagination magnetizes me to throw my artistic feeling onto a canvas and paint all of my evolving passions, anxieties, and experiences. |
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With ex-boyfriend Logan accused of murder, she rewakens old passions. |
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Then in the case of excisions you have all kinds of secondary changes, pigmentary disturbances, modifications of the passions, alterations in the secretion of fatty tissue. |
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All this had no effect, the sailor was wholly insusceptive of the softer passions, and without regard to tears or arguments persisted in his resolution to make me a man. |
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