Guylaine Girard was equally striking as Liù, the selfless slave girl who sacrifices herself for the love of Calaf, his irrational passion for Turandot notwithstanding.

"The episodic nature of our security crises" left the country and its judges vulnerable to being "swept away by irrational passion" when the unaccustomed threat arrived, Brennan said.

Yet this structure can somehow reveal what lies beyond system - the world of irrational passion or religious feeling.

Sir Brian urges them to relent, but the Templars take his irrational passion as further evidence of her witchcraft.

Tatsumitsu Yamasaki, a wealthy entrepreneur and avid yachtsman who founded the syndicate, has spoken of the America's Cup as an "irrational passion" and a "noble goal."

They are symbolized by Juno's uncontrollable rage at the Trojans and by the irrational passions that Dido and Turnus feel.

In this connection, it should be remembered that love in Shakespeare is an irrational passion.

A critic is always balancing authority against vulnerability, and knowledge against the most intense, irrational passions.

As if reason itself was not rooted just as deeply in the dark places of the soul as the most ferocious and irrational passions!

After all, it was an economist (J.M. Clark) who warned against an irrational passion for dispassionate rationality.