Word: passionately
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...instance, dying in the Roncesvalles, is far more appealing to the imagination than any wholly man made fairy tale. If one can believe, no matter how faintly, in what one reads and hears, interest increases to a surprising extent. While it is of course impossible to expect a sudden passion for the study of Greek similar to that which seized Italy during the Renaissance, it is not unreasonable to predict that the perusal of the Iliad and the Odyssey may be taken up in future with a slightly greater degree of enthusiastic abandon than has prevailed heretofore...
...reproach. It is a natural, unfaltering study of sex as a cobra?a snake which fascinates and then devours the great white bull, in this case a strapping athlete. All the energy which he develops swinging an oar as a champion Yale rower seems to turn to passion at the swing of a skirt. A woman's eye can wilt him more easily than a burning...
...same token, Irene despised the flesh. Her father's memory was an abomination-not less so since her sister was every inch his daughter. She made her prayers with the passion wherewith they loved...
...they speak unkindly of their Maker. At times the play sounds like Faust being run backwards. It is simply propaganda for the author's private views on practically everything. Fritz Lieber in the leading role is enamored of his interminable speeches. It is a case of the drooling passion...
...words towards the finish of this new study of the struggle between materialism and the spirit, and that means only half done. While in Italy, he worked every day, from early morning until late afternoon. Mr. Norris does not write with the flow and the passion of his wife, who publishes, as a rule, one novel a year and a certain number of short stories...