Word: passionately
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...Thomas is out of step with the American public. The man who once saw American life and its foibles clearly has become blinded by passion to the majority mind of the nation. He is turning the stage into a wet pulpit from which to slander lawmakers, officials and his fellow citizens...
...wait forever. And, unfortunately for him, there is a double exposure that blots him out of the picture. One night he creeps into the dark room where Gita is developing her image of Surgeon Geoffrey Pelham. Eustace falls back on the fallacy that passion breeds passion. Taking him for a burglar she pinks his shoulder with a Colt. That brings Surgeon Geoffrey into the house pretty often and he in turn brings Gita's endocrines into their own. One night while he rows her through the moonlit salt marshes she has to admit it. Compunction for Eustace is hardly...
...Mozart, an Austrian (and in Austria there is no lack of temperament) complained that men play with 'less expression' than women. Here in England, where our performances certainly do not err on the side of unbridled passion, it seems what has been called 'a silly pity' to exclude the more emotional half of creation...
...pretty strong stuff for a person of 18 to attempt in a first novel. Yet, for all her stock phrases, young Miss Keating has more than a smattering of stage lore, and accomplishes her broad effect with the naive directness of one to whom the ancient tatters of passion are shining raiment bright...
...revolutionist ; how he, torn between two personal voices and not particularly concerned with the wider issues of his country's dilemma, went to England, France, Scotland, looking for a fence to sit on ; how he heard men declaim in taverns and ordinaries, breaking their clay pipes with the passion of their rhetoric ; and how, by a somewhat fatuous coincidence, he came at last to march with Greene's army through North Carolina. Mr. Boyd writes the language laboriously and without zest. He is not concerned with unities or nuances. He pays his subject the high honor of regarding...