passionate love
(noun)
A form of love marked by an intense emotion compelling feeling, enthusiasm, or desire.
Examples of passionate love in the following topics:
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Attraction: Loving
- Psychologist Robert Sternberg views love as a triangle whose three sides consist of passion, intimacy, and commitment.
- Passionate love is an emotional love that is mostly expressed in a physical manner; it is a love that is shared between people who are intensely enamored with each other.
- Often found in long-term relationships, the companionate love shared between partners consists of fewer ups and downs than does passionate love.
- Romantic love derives from a combination of the intimate and passionate components of love.
- Fatuous love is both passionate and committed, but lacks the stability that intimacy brings to relationships.
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Other Important Trait Theories
- These are the ruling passions/obsessions, such as the desire for money, fame, love, etc.
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Teaching High School Classes
- People with a passion for education and who love working with adolescents may consider a career teaching high school students.
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Good News from Sioux Falls
- I shall keep you, and in responding to my passions, yer hatred will kindle into love. ~ John Wayne as Genghis Khan to Susan Hayward in the movie The Conqueror
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The paradox of pay
- There are professionals and there are amateurs, the former get paid, while the amateurs do it for the love of it.
- I love to tease business students about the matter of pay and the power of money.
- I ask, "Considering the ‘oldest profession' what had you rather be known for: doing it for money, or doing it for love?
- In a real sense, professionals indeed do it for love.
- It is difficult to imagine bearing the burden of a physician, lawyer, counselor, or a professor without having a deep and effusive passion for what one does.
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Morality, Justice and a Stable Society
- That we often derive sorrow from the sorrow of others, is a matter of fact too obvious to require any instances to prove it; for this sentiment, like all the other original passions of human nature, is by no means confined to the virtuous and humane, though they perhaps may feel it with the most exquisite sensibility.
- It is placed in the countenance and behavior of those he lives with, which always mark when they entered into, and when they disapprove of his sentiments; and it is here that he first views the propriety and impropriety of his own passions, the beauty and deformity of his own mind" (Smith, TMS, p 204).
- All the members of human society stand in need of each other's assistance, and are likewise exposed to mutual injuries, Where the necessary assistance is reciprocally afforded from love, from gratitude, from friendship, and esteem, the society flourishes and is happy.
- All the different members of it are bound together by the agreeable bands of love and affection, and are, as it were, drawn to one common centre of mutual good offices.
- "But though the necessary assistance should not be afforded from such generous and disinterested motives, though among the different members of society there should be no mutual love and affection, the society, though less happy and agreeable, will not necessarily be dissolved.
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The Importance of Addressing Opposing Views
- When we're passionate about a topic, emotions can sometimes cloud our rationality.
- For example, to begin discussing the legalization of physician aid-in-dying with an audience that may be initially averse to the idea, you might begin with something like this: "The impending death of a loved one, particularly a person who can no longer communicate for herself, can pose intense ethical and emotional questions for those designated to make medical decisions for the patient.
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Teaching Credentials
- Teaching can be a wonderful profession if you love being creative and working with young learners.
- Alternatively certified teachers may also be career changers who are passionate about education, but may not have the time or money to go through the entire traditional process.
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Romantic Love
- Romance is the expressive and pleasurable feeling from an emotional attraction to another person, and is associated with love.
- In the context of romantic love relationships, romance usually implies an expression of one's strong romantic love, or one's deep and strong emotional desires to connect with another person intimately.
- The conception of romantic love was popularized in Western culture by the concept of courtly love.
- Romantic love is contrasted with platonic love which in all usages precludes sexual relations, yet only in the modern usage does it take on a fully asexual sense, rather than the classical sense in which sexual drives are sublimated.
- The conception of romantic love was popularized in Western culture by the concept of courtly love.
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Bureaucracies, Part I: Know How They Tick
- Classical bureaucracy requires employees to treat everyone "without hatred or passion" and to make decisions on the basis of reason rather than feelings.
- In fact, Weber claimed that bureaucracy " develops the more perfectly the more it is 'dehumanized,' the more completely it succeeds in eliminating from official business love, hatred, and all purely personal, irrational, and emotional elements…