Word: passionately
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...Oberammergau Passion Players visited the White House and were received by the President. An address made on their behalf by the Chairman of the American reception committee carried a political appeal for assistance to Germany. Mr. Coolidge, angered, abbreviated the interview by ordering other visitors admitted. Later the President sent a letter to Anton Lang (the Christus), explaining that, much though he had enjoyed meeting the Passion Players, it is not permissable for a President to receive public addresses from people of other nations...
Although an Italian, nurtured amid brilliant stage-lights and full throated choruses in the Scala at Milan, he is still an ardent and perfect Wagnerite. Thus he pleases both the Verdi and Puccini enthusiasts, with their passion for the good old things, and the moderns, who want to get away from the bad old things. He lives solely for his job, arrives at the "House" early each day, leaves late...
...attention to what calling there is, in which you will find joy. But it does not involve introspection, reflection on yourself, or as it is common to speak of now, self-expression. The less you think of yourselves in this world, the better, and the sooner you get the passion for serving others, at home and abroad, at home particularly, the better. Do not put off marriage too much. Do not wait till you think you can offer the girl you want to marry all the luxuries and privileges to which in her father's home she was accustomed. When...
...Critics, The Literary Review. "A complete monomaniac, nothing really interests Bodenheim unless it relates somehow to his ruling intellectual passion. . . . Ultimately he can be no more than a minor though highly interesting literary phenomenon, but his flavor, acrid and pungent, is distinct and lasting...
...cold, damp passion of a clay statue...