Impassioned Sentence Examples

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  • When I heard the same voice, I made an impassioned plea.

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  • He looked at her and was struck by the serious impassioned expression of her face.

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  • After prolonged debates Grattan, on the 26th of May, spoke finally against the committal of the bill, ending with an impassioned peroration in which he declared, "I will remain anchored here with fidelity to the fortunes of my country, faithful to her freedom, faithful to her fall."

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  • In these remains of the tragedies of Ennius we can trace indications of strong sympathy with the nobler and bolder elements of character, of vivid realization of impassioned situations, and of sagacious observation of life.

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  • Anatole France delivered an impassioned oration at the grave.

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  • A careful exclusion of all Gallicisms, as a reaction against the French influences of the day, is one of the marked features of his style, which is not infrequently impassioned and eloquent, though at the same time cumbrous, involved and ornate.

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  • Bahya portrays an intensely spiritual conception of religion, and rises at times to great heights of impassioned mysticism.

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  • But war was in the air, and the most impassioned speeches he ever delivered were addressed to this parliament in fruitless opposition to the Crimean War.

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  • Everything which contributed to the formation of a free, impassioned, liberal individuality he regarded as praiseworthy.

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  • His oration was a tremendous arraignment of war, and an impassioned appeal for freedom and for peace, and proved him an orator of the first rank.

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  • His political eloquence can worthily image the majesty of the state, and enforce weighty counsels with lofty and impassioned fervour.

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  • Eddie sounds better than he has in years and the whole group sound suitably impassioned.

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  • From start to finish it is a truly elegant, yet impassioned, work.

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  • Twelve-year-old Louise made an impassioned speech about poverty in Africa.

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  • If he spoke with anger or frustration or anything other than the quiet, impassioned tone, she would've been able to handle the news better.

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  • The friar's utterances became more and more fervent and impassioned.

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  • Some of his speeches in Great Britain, coming as they did from a French-Canadian, and revealing delicate appreciation of British sentiment and thorough comprehension of the genius of British institutions, excited great interest and enthusiasm, while one or two impassioned speeches in the Canadian parliament during the Boer war profoundly influenced opinion in Canada and had a pronounced effect throughout the empire.

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  • Becoming part of a group who're similarly impassioned could cause submerged parts of you to come alive.

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  • It was evident that the more lifeless he seemed at ordinary times, the more impassioned he became in these moments of almost morbid irritation.

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  • Fate was both vengeful and impassioned in his treatment of past-Deidre, and Gabe sorted through the tangled web that marked the tumultuous relationship between Fate and past-Death.

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  • The players naturally don't look happy but to see them so impassioned and appearing to lack belief is depressing.

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  • The Duke is nicely understated in this atypical role, a nice counterbalance to costar Quinn's typically impassioned performance.

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  • The rather impassioned and premature title given to the World Wide Web.

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  • Chairman Stephen Holmes and a team of experienced dental and business people became impassioned by the vision of this brave new world.

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  • Their best songs are specific, not inscrutable; impassioned despite themselves.

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  • Speaking for myself, I have never in my life felt such impassioned loathing for a mere politician.

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  • His first song successfully combined vigorous strumming, impassioned singing and lyrics which were direct and to the point.

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  • Their music delivers impassioned vocals, beautiful soaring melodies with sparkling guitars, unexpected rhythms which unleash power and restraint in equal measures.

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  • The speech was followed by an impassioned plea by Japan for the resumption of coastal whaling.

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  • At EO Organic, their mission statement says, "We are an impassioned team working collectively to make responsible, sustainable, and authentic personal care products."

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  • Of this tradition the Naboth incident in the time of Ahab furnishes a clear example which brings to light the contrast between the Tyrian Baal-cult, which was scarcely ethical, and of which Jezebel and Ahab were devotees, and the moral requirements of the religion of Yahweh of which Elijah was the prophet and impassioned exponent.

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  • Crowds of persons attended his addresses, on whom his energy, command of language, powerful voice and impassioned gestures made a profound impression.

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  • A week later Trumbic and his colleagues were welcomed on the Balkan front by the Voivode Misic with an impassioned speech in favour of unity.

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  • His greatest feat was the impassioned speech by which, on October 8th, he induced the burgesses to accede to the proposal of the magistracy of Copenhagen to offer Frederick III.

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  • Day by day his impassioned words, filled with the spirit of the Old Testament, wrought upon the minds of the Florentines and strung them to a pitch of pious emotion never before - and never since - attained by them.

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  • At Alexandria the noble Hypatia taught, to whose memory her impassioned disciple Synesius, afterwards a bishop, reared a splendid monument.

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  • Delavigne, inspired by the catastrophe of 1815, wrote two impassioned poems, the first entitled Waterloo, the second, Devastation du musee, both written in the heat of patriotic enthusiasm, and teeming with popular political allusions.

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  • The vividness and distinction of Pascal's phrase, his singular faculty of inserting without any loss of dignity in the gravest and most impassioned meditation what may be almost called quips of thought and diction, the intense earnestness of meaning weighting but not confusing the style, all appear here.

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  • Party feeling in America has probably never been more dangerously impassioned than in the three years preceding 3 Hamilton wrote for the papers himself; Jefferson never did.

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  • His address before the graduating class of the divinity school at Cambridge, in 1838, was an impassioned protest against what he called "the defects of historical Christianity" (its undue reliance upon the personal authority of Jesus, and its failure to explore the moral nature of man as the fountain of established teaching), and a daring plea for absolute selfreliance and a new inspiration of religion.

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  • And as a poet Lull takes a prominent position in the history of Catalan literature; such pieces as El Desconort (1295) and Lo Cant de Ramon (1299) combine in a rare degree simple beauty of expression with sublimity of thought and impassioned sincerity.

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  • Vanessa insensibly became his pupil, and he insensibly became the object of her impassioned affection.

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  • He then took a bible from the priest's hands, and, after looking at it, threw it violently from him, and began a more impassioned speech, in which he exposed the designs of the Spaniards, and upbraided them with the cruelties they had perpetrated.

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  • His impassioned yet reasoned eloquence gave him an influence which was increased by his articles in the Parlement in which he opposed violent measures against the unauthorized congregations.

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  • As a member of the Duma he attained a certain notoriety by impassioned speeches and appeals for root-and-branch reform, but he was never conspicuous for steady work or constructive statesmanship. When the first Revolutionary Government was formed people were astonished to hear that Kerensky had been nominated Minister of Justice.

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  • His eloquence was of that nature, in its impassioned appeals to the strongest emotions, that it required for its full effect the highest themes and the most dramatic situations.

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  • Many ideas and expressions of the Sicilian have been reproduced by the Roman poet; and the same tone of impassioned solemnity and melancholy seems to have pervaded both works.

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  • He was singularly sweet-tempered, and shrank from the impassioned political bitterness that raged about him; bore with relative equanimity a flood of coarse and malignant abuse of his motives, morals, religion, 4 personal honesty and decency; cherished very few personal animosities; and better than any of his great antagonists cleared political opposition of illblooded personality.

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  • The ill-fated Vieira de Castro excited the greatest admiration by his impassioned speeches in the Chamber of Deputies during the 'sixties; the nearest modern counterpart to these distinguished men is the orator Antonio Candido Ribeiro da Costa.

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  • Theirs is an impassioned approach to free jazz allied with certain rock sensibilities.

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  • The style is very vigorous and impassioned, without any trace of relenting towards conventional work.

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  • Such superb self-confidence can accomplish much, and it undoubtedly helped to form Fustel's talent and to give to his style that admirable concision which subjugates even when it fails to convince; but a student instinctively distrusts an historian who settles the most controverted problems with such impassioned assurance.

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  • His impassioned eloquence did much more than.

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