Word: passionately
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...your young man's passion to be free...
With reference to your reporting of the weaseling of the President and the Senate in the matter of the loan to Finland, I believe this is the first time I have ever noted a touch of passion in your otherwise even reportorial style. You could not have picked a better occasion to make an exception to the rule. It makes one almost ashamed of his Government. My congratulations...
Even when audiences were not conscious of the Soviet pictures' wonderful dynamic structure, they were stirred by their deep adult seriousness, the elemental sweep of their action and passion, their handling of great masses of people, their cunning use even of inanimate objects to reinforce drama. In all of them were moments which could never be forgotten: the disheveled hair of a dead woman slowly falling, straight and perpendicular, between the massive halves of a drawbridge as they rise (Ten Days That Shook the World); the medical officer's pince-nez, dangling from its black cord with pendulum...
...when she was five she was hideously disfigured in a fire in which her mother died. Her father could not bear her, nor could any other males; nor could Esther bear to confront men. When she was 14 she tried to seduce a boy; after that she kept her passion to herself. She had money, read romances ravenously, set desperate stock in a gypsy's prophecy of a house among trees in sunlight, a great love to come. In middle age she got the house, in the mountains of West Wales. Soon after came the great love, Lew Gower...
...instinctive refusal of such rare, insufficiently flattering criticism as Julia Ward Howe's ("she thought [Ella's ability] might be developed into real talent with study and hard work"), her fatal love of making a sensation, gratified by the tempest of propriety that erected Poems of Passion, her brief affair with James Whitcomb Riley (his levity wounded her), her marriage with solid, devoted Robert Wilcox, "a gentleman in every sense of the word" (who years later confided to a fellow club member his astonishment at having found the poetess of passion a virgin...