In 2010, Hofstadter took up salsa dancing while on sabbatical in Paris, and his salsa passion led him to branch out to other dances.

Ben-Gurion's passion for Zionism, which began early in life, led him to become a major Zionist leader and Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization in 1946.

" He is a person with an impeccable past, generous sentiments and deep religious and humanist training, but whose excessive sensitivity and poetic temperament have led him to act in accordance with the passion of the moment rather than calm, firm will.

Bax's relationship with Cohen led some commentators to assume a Freudian link between Bax ’ s alleged sexual passion and the sea-theme in Tintagel.

His passion for Irish, already a language in severe decline, led him to found the Gaelic League, or in Irish, Conradh na Gaedhilge, in the hope of saving it from extinction.

His sexual orientation became a topic of national controversy and media scrutiny after several appearances on Dick Cavett and other talk shows, but the overwhelmingly positive and grateful feedback from the gay community led Loud to embrace this role with passion and flamboyant, often self-deprecating wit.

Stopes's passion to prove Suess's theory led her to discuss with Scott the possibility of joining his next expedition to Antarctica.

When the sinking fund was appropriated in 1733 he led the denunciation ; when the excise scheme in the same year was stirring popular feeling to its lowest depths the passion of the multitude broke out in his oratory.

His passion for history had led him to choose this " agrégation " instead of the more usual and prestigious philosophy one.

His nimbleness, and the wit which struggles with his pedantry, found their full development in the dialogue of Twelfth Night and Much Ado about Nothing, just as " Marlowe's mighty line " led up to and was eclipsed by the majesty and music of Shakespearean passion.

This career did not last long, as his passion seemed to be music and the old ballads of the 19th century ; his love of music and theater dated back to his early years in the Methodist Church choir and led him to pursue a musical career.

He was said to love music above all else: it was his first passion and the path that led him to his career.

In the height of his passion for conquests, he led an immense army against the Dog Rong, who inhabited the western part of China.

As a teenager, he developed a passion for drawing, which led him through a brief course with the Academy of Fine Arts to the publication of political caricatures for the city newspapers.

In the end, both realize what they had done to each other and how their passion and pretension had led them to the destruction of what each had held in " the highest reverence ".

This passion for women's education led her to fight for the first women's school for higher education.

His passion for opera in general led him to visit the Royal Opera House in London and a lowly paid job with Decca Records in that city.

Lewis led a strong campaign during the 1975 election with his oratory and passion bringing new supporters to the party.

His early passion for sports in general, but especially basketball, could have led his life in an entirely different direction.

His passion for opera led him to open several opera houses, and he rekindled opera's popularity in America.

Her passion for her work, her imagination and inventiveness have led to the creation of some of the brand ’ s most iconic products, such as Vara shoe and the Gancino.

However, his passion for filmmaking led him to travel to Bombay ( now Mumbai ) where he initially worked as an assistant director to I. S. Johar, and then for his director-producer brother, B. R.

Soon, his passion for the medium led to devote himself entirely to photography, following in the footsteps of such great American masters as Steichen, Stieglitz and Ansel Adams.

Ben shares some of his past with Madison ; he began doing drugs five years ago, which led to crime and six months in juvenile hall, which " saved him " because he ultimately realized his passion and talent for swimming.

His passion for medical science and fitness led him to pursue his opportunities in Canada where he is currently working on his own next-generation fitness electronics hardware company.

Yet Davidson impressed him as a poet capable of `` sustained power, passion, or beauty '', and he cited specific passages to illustrate not only these qualities but Davidson's command of imagery as well.

it was the clerks who caused the mischief and who made him say that the ruling passion of their race was covetousness and that in dealing with them he never knew whether he had to do with a Frenchman or with a devil.

He credited the technique with allowing him to pursue his passion for Shakespearean acting.

It was reserved for his biographer Karl Benrath to justify him, and to represent him as a fervent evangelist and at the same time as a speculative thinker with a passion for free inquiry, always learning and unlearning and arguing out difficult questions with himself in his dialogues, frequently without attaining to any absolute conviction.

His mother, anguished, provided him with what he asked and reputedly told him, " Here, my dear son, do not give me more passion, and leave, and let God help you in your adventure ".

Describing Morris as a teenager, Mark Singer wrote that he " read with a passion the forty-odd Oz books, watched a lot of television, and on a regular basis went with a doting but not quite right maiden aunt (" I guess you'd have to say that Aunt Roz was somewhat demented ") to Saturday matinées, where he saw such films as This Island Earth and Creature from the Black Lagoon — horror movies that, viewed again 30 years later, still seem scary to him.

In Vienna Eugene's attitude was dismissed as the arrogance of a young upstart, but so impressed was the Emperor by his passion for the Imperial cause he promoted him to Field-Marshal in 1693.

Early in life, Epictetus acquired a passion for philosophy, and with the permission of his wealthy owner, he studied Stoic philosophy under Musonius Rufus, which allowed him to rise in respectability as he grew more educated.

Sally appears next, dressed as a torch singer singing of her passion for Ben from then-and her obsession with him now (" Losing My Mind ").

As a boy, he had asthma and couldn't play sports or do any activities with other kids and so his parents and his older brother would often take him to movie theaters ; it was at this stage in his life that he developed passion for cinema.

On April 6, 1327, Good Friday, after Petrarch gave up his vocation as a priest, the sight of a woman called " Laura " in the church of Sainte-Claire d ' Avignon awoke in him a lasting passion, celebrated in the Rime sparse (" Scattered rhymes ").

* " You don't mean to say that Basil has got any passion or any romance in him?

* April 6 – Petrarch sees a woman he names Laura in the church of Sainte-Claire d ' Avignon, which awakes in him a lasting passion.

He returns when Amelia writes to him and admits her feelings for him, marries her ( despite having lost much of his passion for her ), and has a daughter whom he loves deeply.

However, Humphrey refused to be intimidated and stood his ground ; his integrity, passion and eloquence eventually earned him the respect of even most of the Southerners.

Muir's passion for nature made him the most influential American environmentalist.

The rewriting of the song was prompted by a letter from Gilbert, dated 25 January: " I can ’ t help thinking that the second act would be greatly improved if the recitation before Grossmith ’ s song were omitted and the song re-set to an air that would admit of his singing it desperately – almost in a passion, the torrent of which would take him off the stage at the end.

Hooke himself characterised his Oxford days as the foundation of his lifelong passion for science, and the friends he made there were of paramount importance to him throughout his career, particularly Christopher Wren.

Despite her misgivings that launching him on a course of studying art would impinge upon his other studies, his mother indulged the young Modigliani's passion for the subject.

In one standoff between Tiberius and Titus Annius, a renowned orator, Annius argued that if a colleague of Tiberius stood to defend him and Tiberius disapproved, he would simply in a passion physically remove the man.