Word: passionately
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...administrators may use it to bludgeon criticism and unpopular beliefs into silence, thus resurrecting the witch-hunt of the '20's complete with its smear and arbitrary methods. And yet another implication is that this act and its effects may become permanent even after the present tide of pressure, passion, and fear has receded...
...Shaw's heroes are men of moral passion." (English...
...British? Mossadeq stands on a single plank: oil nationalization. That issue had become the focal point of every political passion, every instinct of discontent in the country. How sound an issue does Mossadeq have against the British...
...been a roly-poly bachelor named David K. Niles. A Russian tailor's son who learned politics in the political cauldrons of Massachusetts, Niles entered the White House under Harry Hopkins' banner, soon got to be one of President Roosevelt's six assistants with "a passion for anonymity." When Harry Truman moved in in 1945, shrewd Dave Niles stayed on, before long was the only New Deal relic left in the President's "little cabinet...
...difficult to tell how much some of the failings of the production Tuesday were failings of the play itself or how much they might have been the failings of the actors. Certainly when some of the actors, notably Edward Snow and Eric Sollee, played their parts with a passion which the Italian temperament calls for, the play came sharply to life, as it did not during the wordy, heavy first act. The playwright might do well for a time to use her talent for witty dialogue in lighter vehicles until she comes to command a surer grasp of the difficulties...