For three decades Gerry brought his exhilarating wit, piercing intelligence and passionate idealism to new work on our stages with a creative vision as epic as his craft was exacting.

His closing observation is that "our current political landscape badly needs Hillary's perspective, her passionate idealism.

Now 48 years old, she shows traces of gray around the temples but still projects a youthful, passionate idealism.

Our current political landscape badly needs Hillary's perspective, her passionate idealism.

There is Roman local color, too, and the backdrop of passionate idealism during the Napoleonic era that lifts the melodrama beyond the personally hysterical.

In a flash of passionate idealism, they all decided to destroy the Angel's Luck, the phials and themselves included.

The heightened political atmosphere in New York this week was met, in two very different programs, with passionate idealism and tragic comedy.

For all that he's a 32-year-old father of three, there's something of the gilded youth about him: beautiful, rich and clever but also oddly innocent (this, I guess, is born of his passionate idealism).

Truth found the thought of such a passionate idealism profoundly dis- turbing.

But he seems totally unable to arouse the passionate idealism of the independence movement, and does not much try.