It was in a very brief visit that Beecher managed to see England as she was: a remarkable letter for its insight, and more remarkable still for its moderation, when you consider that it was written in the midst of our Civil War, while loyal Americans were not only enraged with England, but wounded to the quick as well. When a man can do this--can have passionate convictions in passionate times, and yet keep his judgment unclouded, wise, and calm, he serves his country well.英文原著 · 《A Straight Deal》
Ratcliffe!" exclaimed Madeleine, rising from her chair, and speaking in a warning voice almost as passionate as his own. "A heartless coquette!" he repeated, still more harshly than before; "she said you would do just this! that you meant to deceive me! that you lived on flattery! that you could never be anything but a coquette, and that if you married me, I should repent it all my life. I believe her now!"
Mrs. Lee's temper, too, was naturally a high one. At this moment she, too, was flaming with anger, and wild with a passionate impulse to annihilate this man.英文原著 · 《Democracy An American Novel》
"One single moment yet, I pray you. I have for years wished that you should know why I lost you--a loss that tells upon me yet. I have bitterly worked out my own folly since I knew not how passionately I loved you until you became the wife of another. Isabel, I love you passionately still."英文原著 · 《East Lynne》
Well, what she did, as the force of that thought crushed her back upon her chair, was to bring her hands together in a passionate clasp, and to cry in a passionate gasp:英文原著 · 《Phyllis of Philistia》
Ayrton had heard that passionate appeal for another chance upon more than one previous occasion. He had heard the husband who had tortured his wife to death make a passionate appeal to God to give him another chance. He knew that God had never given him another chance with the same wife; but God had given him another wife in the course of time--a wife who was not made on the spiritual lines of those who die by torture; a wife who was able to formulate a list of her own rights, and the rights of her sisters, and who possessed a Will.英文原著 · 《Phyllis of Philistia》
My poor little child! It shall not it cannot divide us. I am hers, and she is mine nothing can ever alter that."
He turned and went back into the room. Never had he looked grander than at that minute; this man who could hold thousands in breathless attention this man who was more passionately loved by his friends, more passionately hated by his enemies than almost any man in England! He was just the ideal father. Erica had not stirred, she was leaning back in her chair, looking very still and white. He came close to her. "Little son Eric!" he said, with a whole world of love in his tone.英文原著 · 《We Two》
Louis, I knew you were passionate, but I had no idea how passionate.美剧 · 《Suits》
He was very passionate, and I wanted to be with him constantly.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Local cameraman has a pretty good thing going, where he gets to travel all over the country, and fool around in hotel rooms with his beautiful, smart, feisty producer... and he's pretty sure this passionate, intelligent, warrior for truth likes it, too, so maybe these two knuckleheads should swallow美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》