Mary Gordon's impressive debut novel, "Final Payments" (1978), opened with the funeral of the heroine's father, a fiercely passionate man who believed that Voltaire and Rousseau could be held "personally responsible for the mess of the 20th century."

Seemingly meek and self-effacing, she was in fact strong-willed and fiercely passionate.

She is noted for usually playing fiercely passionate heroines in her movies.

Evan is a ne'er do well painter from a prominent family, and his fiercely passionate nature and reckless ways captivate Hesper.

Shades of gray are Maddox's palette, and she uses them judiciously to paint a portrait of a complex, contradictory, fiercely passionate and passionately fierce woman whose true place in scientific history is still open to debate.

Bob Stanley writing in The Times has said Hungry Beat "was droll, intelligent and fiercely passionate about pop.

Their unrestrained, fiercely passionate coupling was a slap in Death's face, a not wholly rational but nevertheless satisfying denial of the grim specter's very existence.

Doing far more, however, is Laura Dern in her fiercely passionate portrait of Janet.

Under the meticulous direction of Michael Blakemore, with three fiercely passionate performances, the result is a most invigorating and ingenious play of ideas (2:20).

The famously red-headed O'Hara has been noted for playing fiercely passionate heroines with a highly sensible attitude.