passion for
Synonyms
Examples
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves.