Word: passionately
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...group, Cantabs. had reason to be pleased. Their new chancellor was not only one of Britain's greatest airmen and World War II heroes, he was also a quiet man with scholarly tastes (his dissertation on The Navy of the Restoration won the distinction of publication) and a passion for sketching...
...much for the genteel and moral Irish Protestant, who had worked as an accountant and claimed to be kin to a baronet. He heard the Biblical and warlike voice of Marx. Its despotic sound, its subversiveness, its talk of the continuous war of classes, its protest against poverty, the passion of its economics, lastingly moved Shaw, for he was poor, came from an oppressed nation, had lost his religious faith, and was in need of a weapon and a role...
...political thinker of any substance. Shaw's great vanity as an artist-and he was an artist above all-enabled him to agree with double-edged modesty with his critics. He often spoke, truly, of his poor education. He observed with real humility the learning and the passion of the Webbs, whom he worshipped. It was a kind of modesty when he boasted of his brilliance and genius; because (if it can be put this way) brilliance and genius were all he had. And he knew their nature: he had the penetrating comic genius. He was expert...
George Orwell had the gift of honesty as other writers have the gift of the satin phrase. His literary mark was his own: he sniped at all kinds of intellectual cant, loved personal freedom with an irascible passion, felt himself tied to ordinary people by strong memories of plebeian discomfort, and wrote in a style as bare and sharp as a winter tree...
Harriet Craig (Columbia). George Kelly's Craig's Wife, a play about a woman whose passion for tidiness destroyed her marriage, was a 1926 Pulitzer Prizewinner. In 1936, as a movie starring Rosalind Russell and John Boles, it was rated one of the better pictures of the year. Hollywood's current version is not so successful...