Word: passionate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suite, the word 'DEATH' was scrawled across the wall in gray paint." He painted in his chalk lines to cover the entire wall of Quincy B-11 with Max and a monster arching their backs to the sky. The book was Baer's childhood favorite and his passion for the horned and hairy things shines through his work. Whenever Baer and his friends would hang out in the room last year, "People walking by on the street could be heard saying 'Check out that wall! That's so cool...
During the interview, Barrios displayed energy and passion as he described his achievements of the past...
Surprisingly, he didn't show the most passion about his legislative successes but about the simple accomplishment of securing funds and support to renovate the decrepit Magazine Beach park...
...finished. And soon after, so was the Ottoman Empire. In 1699, the Turkish advance was stopped once and for all at the gates of Vienna. But now it was the Habsburgs' turn. Retreating, the Turks left their coffee sacks behind, and the Austrians took to mocha with the same passion they later devoted to waltzing along the Danube. In Austria's legendary coffeehouses, a great culture grew--from Mozart (who, alas, did not write the Coffee Cantata; that was Bach) to Kafka and Freud. The Habsburg empire was, however, doomed, battered by the French in the 18th century and trounced...
Acting--"the desire to communicate," she says--is her passion, but it was also clearly her salvation. She grew up poor, in public housing in Nottingham, in the north of England, with eight brothers and sisters, and was shuffled in and out of foster homes. She left school at 13, and though she refuses to talk about those rough days--"I don't want my future in acting to be about my past"--her chance to participate in an acting workshop from ages 11 to 16 was her big break into that future...