How To Use Impassioned In A Sentence

And so, against all the odds, and all the elements, Powell got to make his wistful and impassioned film.
_merit-thermometer_, a sort of _Aeolian-harp-test_; in the flat parts his voice was unimpassioned, but if the gust of genius swept over the wires, his tones rose in intensity, till his own energy of feeling and expression kindled in others a sympathetic impulse, which the dull were forced to feel, whilst his animated recitations threw fresh meaning into the minds of the more discerning. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
His impassioned defence of free speech changed the tenor of the debate.
They also star as Ronnie and Sammi, whose hot/cold romance is celebrated in an impassioned duet with a title unprintable here. NYT > Home Page
Their three-guitar lineup produced a wall of overlapping sound, immersing the audience in impassioned songs mostly about love, and occasionally hate.

& odq; I had noticed that she was much changed, & cdq; Mr. Wentworth declared, in a tone whose unexpressive, unimpassioned quality appeared to Felix to reveal a profundity of opposition. & odq; It may be that she is only becoming what you call a charming woman. &cdq; The Europeans
For this was the unfortunate moment which he chose to launch another of his impassioned diatribes at the worldliness, the luxury, the intrigues, the meretricious bedizenment of wealthy and high-born women. Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
But the mestizoes, Spanish in their contempt for the Indians, and Indian in their hatred which they had vowed against the Spaniards, burned with both these vivid and impassioned sentiments. The Pearl of Lima A Story of True Love
In one of her famously impassioned speeches - between threats to bloody noses - she blasted what she called the objectification, disrespect and "violence" toward women, slamming her fist so hard against the lectern that her bracelet shattered. NYT > Home Page
That night we must have performed for over 100 people - the most impassioned audience we'd ever had.
But this required impassioned debate, and so the Senate did not pass its Ultimate Decree until the last day of Flaccus's term as first interrex. Fortune's Favorites
He blows up, and in impassioned language forswears and disowns Rosalia, the five children, and all memory of them and responsibility for them, forever and forever. Lawgivers
I had been transformed from timorous novice to impassioned biker.
The impassioned egalitarian rhetoric that asserts this supposed obligation cows many people into acquiescence.
answered with an unimpassioned defense
She gave an impassioned speech about how being Jewish, what Israeli is ostensibly doing in her name appalled and saddened her. Dennis Perrin: My Yearly Kos Diary
This is not the world of the sixties and seventies, when the dottily impassioned swore that, within X years, the world would end in fire and many rational folk believed them. The New Republic - All Feed
According to these self-appointed connoisseurs, he was a bawler without taste, without method, a maker of absurd trills, an unimpassioned actor of little intelligence, and many other things besides. Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
No wonder she is still impassioned about a book she wrote more than a decade ago.
Indeed Fifa, an organisation that brings new definition to the term complacency, has already turned a blind eye to the incident, dismissing Ahern's impassioned intervention as if it were material for a comedy sketch, a ludicrous idea. The Seminal :: Independent Media And Politics
And Jobim s Retrato em Blanco E Preto, Inutil Paisaje, and Dindi are rendered in impassioned ballad, bossa nova-scat, and John Coltrane-ish settings. HW Pick: Magos Herrera, Luna Menguante Barluna «
Greatly influenced by DC hardcore forebears like Fugazi, QANU's music bristled with taut, pointed rhythms and impassioned verse.
It was impassioned and almost needy; I was too shocked to do anything but kiss back.
The difficulty was that in impassioned moments the mustache was apt to get awry; and once or twice, while on his knees before Tina in tragical attitudes, this occurrence set her off into hysterical giggles, which spoiled the effect of the rehearsal. Oldtown Folks
His losing bid for the presidency in the war election of 1864 would see much more impassioned rhetoric.
More than anyone, he's broadened the art of documentary, adding impassioned, essayistic advocacy to its repertoire of styles.
Nay, the members of a union will declaim in impassioned rhetoric for the The Scab
At first glance, Kelo was remarkable for Justice O'Connor's impassioned dissent, in which she noted that Justice Stevens 'majority opinion would "dissolve" a crucial distinction between the public and private spheres. Chris Meserole: Privatizing Corruption
Thanks, Simon for your thoughtful, even impassioned, comment – it’s never too late to hear from someone such as yourself who has been at the forefront (one can’t say ‘cutting edge’ anymore, unhappily) of developments in communicative methodology and materials writing for so many years. S is for “Strategies” « An A-Z of ELT
Throughout the album, Dead Prez move from bitter reportage, recounting tales of poverty and desperation, to impassioned calls to action.
Bloggers can express themselves in a number of ways, from contrary to confessional, from indifferent to impassioned.
After an impassioned and joyous love affair, she severed their relationship in the late 1880s.
In theatre terms, the plays are didactic and are prone to long impassioned declamatory speeches.
After three hours of impassioned debate the motion was defeated.
Their passion had deserted them, and, by the kind of dances as well as by their execution, they recalled rather the calm and self-possessed nauch girls of India than the impassioned dancers of Egypt. Michael Strogoff
In a later session, one of the organizers of the conference, Dyonna Ginsburg, who made aliyah to Israel from the U.S., made an impassioned case for why Israel was the issue of this generation of Jews. Rabbi Sid Schwarz: 'One Jewish People' Takes Work
An impassioned speech to a massive crowd can be heard clearly in the 400th row without any means of amplification.
Reason - cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason - must furnish all the materials for our future support and defense.
During a career that spanned five decades, he created a new and impassioned form of abstract painting.
His prolix, impassioned essay argued that Catholicism was one of Italy's contributions to European civilization and that Italy would contribute yet more once renewed in a federation led by a liberal papacy.
So far Arabic metre is true to Nature: in impassioned speech the movement of language is iambic: we say “I will, I will,” not The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Veteran filmmaker Ira Sach's autobiographically inspired, intensely vulnerable, and sexually charged Keep The Lights On chronicles the drug-induced disintegration of an impassioned relationship between an emerging documentary filmmaker and a closeted lawyer living in New York in the 1990s. Roya Rastegar: Sundance 2012 Top Picks: Keeping Us Human
The director of the charity made an impassioned plea for help.
It testifies that women are daily gaining in self-reliance; that the methodical training their minds receive to fit them for professions and for business positions, tends to render them, even in general matters, more accurate in conception, more precise in execution, less under the dominion of the sudden impulse and instinct, more capable of reasoning, and of judging of things as reason, unimpassionedly, presents them. Womanliness as a Profession
From the beginning his audience - and there was always an audience - were in thrall to his idiosyncratic and impassioned deliveries.
The jury listened to his impassioned explication of article 306.
Otherwise, how are we to explain Neruda's fervent and impassioned commitment to the working class?
His impassioned eloquence brought the sun-bathed pal鎠tra before one with a magic of representment. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions
This Government looks tired, unimpassioned, and as though it lacks leadership.
The sisters are concerned and making an impassioned plea.
So impassioned am I about Croydon that I have put together a poetry book all about it.
The second group, mainly a distempered and impassioned crew that just so happens to include myself, extols 10,000 Hz Legend as the band's true high-water mark.
Nay, the members of a union will declaim in impassioned rhetoric for the God-given right of an eight-hour day, and at the time be working their own business against seventeen hours out of the twenty-four. THE SCAB
The latter now recalled his misdeed with sorrow and shame in an impassioned plea for amnesty to all political offenders, including The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)
Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization.
I was so impassioned that my mom got sucked into the scheme and helped me with the binding.
Over the years, Sundance has evolved from a fantasy of impassioned après-ski movie chat to a crucial moment in Hollywood's film calendar - the only time of year when something might happen that nobody planned.
He appeared unrepentant and impassioned in favour of us developing our nuclear muscle - for defence.
But his pop songs showcase his singing, which starts off like he's reading his journal to a bored girlfriend, then takes flight in an impassioned croon.
These groups attempted to no-platform him and would have succeeded in their efforts if not for an impassioned response from local women's groups.
Impassioned cries of: ‘We will shed blood to save the Datta Peetha’ were raised.
Rose's impassioned speech against passiveness and for making a stand about what's right struck a chord, and the whole final episode was based around this one idea.
Religion, by contrast, is a principal site of impassioned argument and disputation.
It is indeed an impassioned expression of our ancestors who were delighted even by the sight of a lotus in blossom.
She made an impassioned plea for help.
Coldly, unimpassionedly, he stated his terms: the entire French army to surrender arms and baggage and be treated as prisoners of war. The Downfall
I can only imagine that this display of peevishness, combined with you impassioned use of the Anglo-Saxon expletive, is an attempt to stymie your critics with the depth of your feeling rather than the strength of your arguments. Res Ipsa Loquitur
The word impassioned would seem misplaced, if applied to any of Mr. Emerson's orations. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ken is level-headed and calm, technically skilled, bright and quick, tireless and impassioned. Boing Boing
After three hours of impassioned debate the motion was defeated.
You can see why everyone is not a Highsmith fan, and perhaps why some of us are impassioned ones.
Most of the time he stood on the podium unimpassioned, seemingly bored. Times, Sunday Times
Reason - cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason - must furnish all the materials for our future support and defense.
A clip of a tuk-tuk driver's impassioned speech against the economic conditions has been viewed millions of times. Times, Sunday Times
The Children's Hospital, a sprawling and impassioned morality tale in which a catastrophe of biblical scale wipes out nearly all life, human and otherwise, on Earth despite its weaknesses, The Children's Hospital establishes Chris Adrian as a remarkable American fabulist in the tradition of Melvin Jules Bukiet and Tony Kushner, writers who define and confront the terrifying moral choices of a new century. The Children's Hospital by Chris Adrian: Book summary
For completists and fanatics, such a label is manna from heaven; for those less impassioned, the key issue is whether a given release adds anything significant to the Glass oeuvre.
The alderwoman was speaking not in a spirit of complaint, but rather with an impassioned voice of the necessity of participation in the life of the community if the community is going to thrive.
A national nonprofit program launched in 2003 by Oprah chef Art Smith, Common Threads pairs kids from Title 1 schools with fancy pro chefs like Jamie Oliver and James Beard Award-winning Bernstein and semipro-to-impassioned-amateur cooks like me. Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Discovering Common Threads
In the midst of an eloquent and impassioned remonstrance with the Sceptic who, even when overwhelmed by the disasters of a present world, renounces all trust in futurity, she weaves some touching reflections upon a catastrophe, the remembrance of which will ever fall with surpassing sadness upon the spirit of a great people. A Review of 'The Sceptic; a Poem'
In the center of the platform there remained one group, consisting of Miss Pratt and five orators, and of the orators the most impassioned and gesticulative was William. Seventeen
It was a moving and impassioned speech, with a few barbs which Blair had to simply stand there and take.
English, stimulating his sexual desire to that fever-heat which they called impassioned living. The Brimming Cup
The Princess Royal yesterday made an impassioned plea for help on behalf of the country's six million carers.
His poetry may take different forms; it can be impassioned or ironic.
Bloggers can express themselves in a number of ways: from contrary to confessional, indifferent to impassioned.
In the end, only the intervention of an anonymous third party saved the man from harm at the hands of the impassioned crowd.
These three removes put a gulf impassable between her utmost skill and the impassioned irresolution of that inscrutable Northern nature which is in nothing so masculine as its feminine reluctances and hesitations, or so little French as in those obscure emotions which the English poetry expressed with more than Gallic clearness, but which the French words always failed to convey. Literature and Life (Complete)
In other words, it's a question of what really gets you impassioned, instinctively.
At the opening ceremony for a new building recently, a man made an impassioned speech about the wrongs of animal sacrifice.
Then Ito turned upon me and poured out an impassioned entreaty that he might be "honourably" permitted to take charge of and fire the torpedoes himself. Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun A Story of the Russo-Japanese War
She wrote an impassioned letter to her local newspaper to complain about the new road.
Their sophomore release is indeed galvanic, with electric guitars and impassioned percussion (both drums and piano) leading the charge.
But it was not especially difficult, because the kids were impassioned.
He's impassioned and animated, perceptive and entertaining, gregarious and charismatic.
But I divine far more complex forces than mere aesthetic preferences lurking behind this oddly impassioned schism.
At the opening ceremony for a new building recently, a man made an impassioned speech about the wrongs of animal sacrifice.
Muir was an impassioned and persuasive champion of wilderness preservation.
Each new postal delivery brings more impassioned pleas to protect the local post office.
Just like the text by Itard on which it is based, Truffaut's film expresses both the romanticism of Victor's impassioned longing for the woods and the moon, and also the clinical compassion with which his stiff-necked, reserved teacher offers him the values of civilisation. Truffaut: growing backwards into childhood
She appeared on television to make an impassioned plea for help.
Now he is presenting nothing less than an entire history of atheism, and an impassioned argument for disbelief in all things supernatural.
However, support for the original committee is equally impassioned.
As expected, responses varied widely from impassioned anger to passive indifference.
The jury listened to his impassioned explication of article 306.
When reading the production of another, the tones of his voice became a merit-thermometer, a sort of Aeolian-harp-test; in the flat parts his voice was unimpassioned, but if the gust of genius swept over the wires, his tones rose in intensity, till his own energy of feeling and expression kindled in others a sympathetic impulse, which the dull were forced to feel, whilst his animated recitations threw fresh meaning into the minds of the more discerning. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey
I do not deal in impromptu speeches, and have but little belief in the impassioned orator who relies upon the stimulus of the moment; but I soon found that it would be better and wiser, and that, perhaps, I could more truly express my thought, if I were to write down what I meant, and what I meant to convey to you, upon the first part of this most important subject. Education and Empire Unity
ritornello," and I had fondly imagined its impassioned lines were all for me! Vendetta: a story of one forgotten
In contrast, however, to the stereotype of the reserved, stoic Indian, Creeks respected impassioned public speakers, and lengthy oration was common at council meetings.
The inspiration comes from sunray. From the angle of the emotions, grasp the rustic, exuberant and impassioned music, which gives us aesthetic and pleasurable feelings.
She made an impassioned plea for help.
During one impassioned speech we were given a lingering shot of one of the delegates in the audience fast asleep.
His impassioned diatribes are laced with the queasy petulance of someone who already knows he's lost the fight, going to the mat with a whine instead of a real donnybrook.
an impassioned appeal
Sachs tells us that reading these impassioned letters eventually became repetitious and boring.
She may have recalled his unvarying tenderness, his unceasing admiration; she may have recollected those impassioned accents that thrilled her heart, those glances of rapturous affection that fixed her eye with fascination. Henrietta Temple A Love Story
First, a jokey panel drops down behind him, forcing a cheap laugh from the audience right in the middle of his lovely "dream" aria; later, as a novice priest, he must sing the long, impassioned church scene wearing a transparent black chiffon cassock over satin trousers. In 'Manon,' Best to Close Your Eyes
And what always troubled me was that David Brock pretended that he, too, was a meticulous, fair-minded investigative reporter who went back and looked at the story in a disimpassioned way. CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2001
Michael, the poster mentions Chef Achatz's impassioned response to some of Marco's comments during the panel -- and my general expressions of wariness and exhaustion with the longer, larger and more involved of today's "degustation" menus. Ruhlman.com
He threw off everything which would weaken his struggle to produce a cool, unimpassioned interpretation of the conflict between his mind and vision and the prospect of immediate death.
But before she made her final impassioned plea to her seemingly unenlightened colleagues, the air had been thick with expectation.
Nay, the members of a union will declaim in impassioned rhetoric for the God-given right of an eight-hour day, and at the time be working their own business against seventeen hours out of the twenty-four. THE SCAB
The director of the charity made an impassioned plea for help.
President Fingal became fairly impassioned with regard to the spruce budworm, Professor Shandy waxed eloquent on the nematode. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
For the most part, he's very good too, his precise but impassioned delivery raising this far above what most people will have expected of it.
the unimpassioned intellect
The atmosphere is charged - the camera prowls street demos and violence and impassioned rhetoric spurts from citizens on every corner.
They each give surprisingly impassioned short speeches.
In person, Barry is engaging - impassioned at times, dryly humorous at others.
It was an impassioned, largely peaceful protest.
“imperial disimpassioned eyes” of her daughter, come from the bed and the throne of Hades, the Lord of many guests. Alfred Tennyson
Did either of these more liberal political climates lead to a surge of impassioned creativity?
Coleman's tenor sax almost steals the show with what some consider the most impassioned lyrical playing of his career.
The distance between these two opposites De Quincey does not traverse by violent leaps; he does not by some feat of legerdemain evanish from the fields of impassioned eloquence, where he is an unrivalled master, to appear forthwith in those of intellectual gymnastics, where, at least, he is not surpassed. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863
Relatives of the dead made an impassioned plea for the bodies to be flown back to this country.
So far Arabic metre is true to Nature: in impassioned speech the movement of language is iambic: we say “I will, I will,” not The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
But debates about mouse buttons are impassioned and urgent.
I am sure there will be impassioned argument among the Council members for your future, but I for one feel that that future is likely to be very brief indeed.
Her naked vocal is impassioned, but also reveals a tendency toward nasality and occasionally soggy enunciation.
He made an impassioned appeal for peace.
Harrison is renowned for his independent voice and impassioned commentary on public affairs.
In person, Barry is engaging - impassioned at times, dryly humorous at others.
So I can afford to wait, even emotionally, until a really good or impassioned idea comes along.
She wrote an impassioned letter to her local newspaper to complain about the new road.
Great issues of conscience are thrashed out in impassioned, eloquent language.
The list runneth short, so who is Batman supposed to fight when his usual enemies wax lackadaisical and unimpassioned?
While much of what has unfolded this past month has no doubt helped build a safer environment for actors, much of the scrutiny -- the rush to judgment, impassioned and often ill-informed critique, unrelenting media attention - has also made it harder for those same actors to concentrate on their work. Barbie Zelizer: Let Broadway's Spider Man Finish What It Started
There were heated exchanges at the meeting, with Mr Martin making an impassioned speech defending his position.
consequentialist" Justice John Paul Stevens, who criticized the Citizens United decision in an impassioned 90-page dissent weeks before his 90th birthday, the lessons of Auschwitz will have been lost on us, and the Bill of Rights, the guarantor of our most precious freedoms, will have failed to silence the voices of bigotry … the darkest irony imaginable. Latest Articles
A columnist at the Independent admitted that, due to his sheer Englishness, he found it 'very difficult to take seriously France's impassioned debate about banning the burqa'.
But half an hour before the game, he will turn up in the dressing - room and start giving an impassioned speech designed to gee us up.
To be the unimpassioned mimic of human passions before fellow human beings who agreed to look on without intervening-all this must have been a startlingly new experience at one point in time.
And then, all of a sudden Garrett is taking a solo so unbelievably impassioned, he has me screaming profanities.
In the Assize Court today the jury listened to his impassioned explication of article 306 which has become known as the Bardi Theorem. PROSECUTOR
The artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue-pencilling the Damn! A Book of Calumny
It stood at the center of impassioned debate throughout Europe three hundred years later because it provided the most notable theoretical justification for the legitimacy of tyrannicide written by a Christian authority.
The wreck and ruin of the Bush years was the powerful tragedian backdrop to Obama's impassioned shouts to remake America. Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Gibbs Need Not Apologize for Blasting the "Professional Left"
The director of the charity made an impassioned plea for help.
For those so inspired, it also offered a significant and impassioned political experience.
Now for those who have never fandangoed or read Garica Lorca, duende is that indefinable, spiritual essence that enters into one's being and comes out as impassioned dance, a flurry of fingers or a deep cante jondo. Hadani Ditmars: Duende Comes to Vancouver
The book is both an impassioned appeal and a guide to measures that can be taken to save the planet, such as the cessation of logging in old-growth forests and the creation of jobs in conservation and bioprospecting.
She appeared on television to make an impassioned plea for help.
Relatives of the dead made an impassioned plea for the bodies to be flown back to this country.
If he was wanting in the dignity, the measured solemnity, which was fitting to such an exposition of the feelings of the House and of the nation, he was abundantly earnest, emotional, and almost impassioned; so that though his speech was here and there faulty, and as a whole not particularly well constructed or conceived, he was manifestly real, and what he said came direct from his feeling; and even in such an assembly as the House of Commons genuineness is not always unacceptable. Sketches in Parliament
Critical to the film's success is accepting that David is an impassioned believer in the immorality of the Death Penalty.
And he made an impassioned plea for changes to be made to prevent a similar tragedy happening again.
He gave vent to his feelings in an impassioned speech.
You might remember her best for her impassioned plea on "Respect Yourself" -- "If you don't respect yourself ain't nobody gonna give a good cahoot, NAH-NAH-NAH BROTHER UH! Dallas Observer | Complete Issue
It also analogously echoed a remark once made by the disorderedly impassioned Howard Dean at a Democratic Black Caucus meeting, where he pejoratively that the only way his rivals could get an equal number of "people of color in a single room" would be by inviting the hotel staff to join them. American Thinker
Instead, it's old-fashioned dexterous bombast, headbanging with caution and poise enough to harness wild arpeggios, but never letting a pedigree get in the way of impassioned squawking and battering.
His speech was impassioned but it only managed to infuriate me more.

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