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[ adjective ] having or expressing strong emotions
Used in print (Musical America, LXXXI:5...)Compare the vast difference in scope and beauty between his neat and witty little Classical_Symphony and his big , muscular , passionate , and eloquent Fifth_Symphony ; or the Love_for_Three_Oranges ( gay as it is ) with the wonderful , imaginative , colorful , and subtle tenderness of the magnificent ballet , The Stone_Flower . (John F. Hayward, "Mimesis and Symbol in the Arts"...)In its place is a passionate consciousness grasped and molded to feelings of positive or negative values even as the actions of one 's life are determined by constellations of process in which one is caught . Related terms passionless wild ardent ablaze demon-ridden lustful fanatic choleric enthusiastic emotional loving hot |
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