It's not as boring as it could be, it excites passions and it has created a cadre of insanely loyal evangelists who are buying them by the handful to give as gifts.

The Cergy mosque, still at least two years from realization, has already excited passions and led one local opposition politician to warn that its minarets might rise higher than the town's church steeples.

Still, her comedy and social criticism, both on stage and in her widely read newspaper columns, have excited passions in the country.

The crisis, Mr. Pangalos said, had excited national passions in Greece, but he said the Greek Government's stance, on this or other issues, would not slip into a more nationalist gear.

People are very prone to accept the unusual and incredible, which excite agreeable passions of surprise and wonder.

The tense scene offered a bitter conclusion to a case that demonstrated how the long-ago actions of a generation steeped in radicalism and dissent can still excite deep passions, and defiance.

On the West Coast, Bridges still excites passions both for and against the labor movement.

The fact that the Berlin report has aroused so little debate suggests that monuments do not excite public passions as they once did.

Neither excites passions the way Mario M. Cuomo did when he ran for Governor in 1982, and while both say their messages appeal to the middle class, they agree more than disagree on domestic issues.

And, the Palestinians said, the Har Homa project does not excite religious passions like Jerusalem's Muslim shrines, and most of the land for the project was in fact sold to Jews by Arabs decades ago.