In this, he had the support of Hitler, a passionate devotee of Richard Wagner.

The best of his short stories belong to the early intensely ratiocinative period, and both The Adventures of Ellery Queen ( 1934 ) and The New Adventures ( 1940 ) are as absolutely fair and totally puzzling as the most passionate devotee of orthodoxy could wish ... ( E ) very story in these books is composed with wonderful skill.

Although he was a devotee of Oswald Spengler ( who was critical of the Nazis ), Yockey was a passionate proponent of the most severe criticism of Jews, and expressed a reverence for German National Socialism, and a general affinity for fascist causes.

In private Martin was passionate, a devotee of chess — and, in common with his brothers, swordsmanship and javelin-throwing — and a devout Christian, believing in " Natural Religion ".

Monck was a passionate devotee of Grecian art and architecture, and it is thought that it was he who strongly influenced Dobson to adopt that style of architecture in so many of his future works.

A passionate environmentalist with excessive liberal beliefs, he is at odds with her frivolous and extravagant lifestyle.

While a man of passionate beliefs and firm opinions, he also exemplified the ability to maintain friendships across political lines.

Theirs is no mere lack of sympathy, but something closer to the passionate hatred that was directed against Fascism.

He thought how this dainty, fragile older woman threading her way through the streets of Westminster on a day in June, enjoying the flowers in the shops, the greetings from old friends, but never really drawing a deep, passionate breath, was so like himself.

the twelfth Marquis De Portago was intelligent, purposeful, and passionate.

Schweitzer's passionate quest was to discover a universal ethical philosophy, anchored in a universal reality, and make it directly available to all of humanity.

There he also received instruction in piano and counterpoint from professor Gustav Jacobsthal, and associated closely with Ernest Munch ( the brother of his former teacher ), organist of St William church, who was also a passionate admirer of J. S.

A passionate fighting-man ( he fought twenty-nine battles against Christian or Moor ), he was married ( when well over 30 years and a habitual bachelor ) in 1109 to the ambitious Queen Urraca of León, widow of Raymond of Burgundy, a passionate woman unsuited for a subordinate role.

Before the War, Paul was a creative, sensitive, and passionate person, writing poems and having a clear love for his family.

The diaries edited by her second husband, after her death, tell that her union with Henry Miller was very passionate and physical, and that she believed that it was a pregnancy with him that she aborted in 1934.

He was impetuous and even head-strong, for by nature he was eager, passionate, and dauntless.

Art historian and the artist's great-grandson Joachim Pissarro notes that they “ professed a passionate disdain for the Salons and refused to exhibit at them .” Together they shared an “ almost militant resolution ” against the Salon, and through their later correspondences it is clear that their mutual admiration “ was based on a kinship of ethical as well as aesthetic concerns ”.

Venter was passionate about the power of genomics to radically transform healthcare.

The Romans were passionate gamblers, especially at the peak of the Roman Empire, and dicing was common though forbidden except during the Saturnalia.

During his time in France, Madero made a pilgrimage to the tomb of Allan Kardec, the founder of Spiritism, and became a passionate advocate of Spiritism, soon coming to believe he was a medium.

Hadrian was a passionate hunter from the time of his youth according to one source.

Isabella had given birth to a daughter, Ippolita at about the same time, and she continued to bear him children throughout Francesco and Lucrezia's long, passionate affair, which was more sexual than romantic.

Where Hitler ’ s style was hoarse and passionate, Goebbels ’ was cool, sarcastic and often humorous: he was a master of biting invective and insinuation, although he could whip himself into a rhetorical frenzy if the occasion demanded.

Jawaharlal Nehru was a passionate advocate of education for India's children and youth, believing it essential for India's future progress.

His policies on Kashmir and the integeration of the state into India was frequently defended in front of the United Nations by his aide, Krishna Menon, a brilliant diplomat who earned a reputation in India for his passionate speeches.

On April 25 in a house speech that biographer William Nisbet Chambers called “ long, passionate, historical, polemical ,” Benton attacked the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, which he “ had stood upon ... above thirty years, and intended to stand upon it to the end -- solitary and alone, if need be ; but preferring company .” The speech was distributed afterwards as a pamphlet when opposition to the act moved outside the walls of congress.

Later in Chinese Buddhism, the term Ai ( 愛 ) was adopted to refer to a passionate caring love and was considered a fundamental desire.

Murray was also criticised by Simpson for her " passionate system building ," developing her own image of a " rigidly codified and uniform system throughout Britain and Europe " that had its own set " Rites of initiation, dates for festivals, sabbath rituals, discipline and hierarchy within covens.

In 1968 the Lawrence Hall of Science public science education center was established in honor of Ernest O. Lawrence, who had been throughout his career a passionate advocate of encouraging public interest in science, particularly among schoolchildren.

Macaulay retained a passionate interest in classical literature throughout his life, and prided himself on his knowledge of Greek literature.

Green is passionate and focused throughout the album — he has no problem going that extra mile — and the writing is consistently strong ".

Despite a few silent scenes, including one where the barber is wearing the tramps ' coat and bowler hat and carrying his cane, the barber speaks throughout the film ( using Chaplin's own British accent ), including the passionate plea for peace that has been widely interpreted as Chaplin speaking as himself.

He was exceptionally passionate about philosophy, literacy and linguistics and studied greatly throughout his youth.

From childhood and throughout her life, she was a passionate advocate for animal rights, which was related to her views of Jews as the practitioners of kosher slaughter.

For Ed, his development of a yearning to obtain knowledge became a passionate and potent driving force in many endeavours throughout his later life.

From the start, the passionate letters, in book form, were a European publishing sensation ( in part because of their presumed authenticity ), with five editions in the collection's first year, followed by more than forty editions throughout the 17th century.

Dedalus is a passionate Irish nationalist and follower of Parnell, and a fine drinking companion, but proves a poor pater familias, unable to care for his large family, and is seen as an inadequate father to Stephen, who, in Ulysses, must seek out Bloom as a surrogate father figure, despite Simon's frequent presence throughout the book.

In Association Football ( soccer ), the crowd is very passionate and often sing throughout the whole match.

A generation of leading contemporary international writers who left Australia for Britain and the United States in the 1960s have remained regular and passionate contributors of Australian themed literary works throughout their careers including: Clive James, Robert Hughes, Barry Humphries, Geoffrey Robertson and Germaine Greer.

Their relationship is fiery and passionate, but it is the focus of gossip and derision throughout the kingdom.

One of Tsegaye's passionate interests throughout this time was in the struggle to regain Ethiopia's looted treasures.

His writings are composed in a naive, sentimental and rather pompous style, but breathe throughout a most passionate love for the Alps, as wonders of nature, and not as objects of scientific study.

Jack was very passionate about playing baseball throughout his childhood and adolescence.

Her father, Moritz Sándor, described as " a furious rider ", was known throughout the Habsburg empire as a passionate horseman.

In the end, despite the passionate pleadings of Charles Lachaud, Marie, no longer as composed as she was previously throughout the trial, heard herself sentenced by the président to life imprisonment with hard labor on 19 September and was brought to Montpellier to serve out her sentence.

Kantor was an active and passionate writer throughout all of his career and almost to the day of his death in 1984.