1.   I think I understood subconsciously that I required a grand consuming passion in life.

2.   Grand passions include films and literature.

3.   Though impulsive in some ways, she was an ordinary, practical girl who had never really believed in grand passion or love at first sight.

4.   And they gave us that rare thing, a marriage of intimate emotions and grand social passions.

5.   But for Nicholas Gage, the author of a relentless post-mortem on this grand passion, lofty concerns still played an all too important role.

6.   Fiery and lyrical by turns, an intense actress of grand passions, she has already become an audience favorite.

7.   He obliges by inventing a story of a night of grand passion with the doomed woman that is so spellbinding it carries him from the foundry to the stage.

8.   He tells Zoe the story of grand doomed passion is fiction, but the more he reassures her, the less she believes him.

9.   It is about renouncing grand passion in favor of being a wife and mother, as Francesca does.

10.   Love affairs expand into grand passions and everyday trials into heroic struggle.