"Passion" is, at least, an adult musical that allows Donna Murphy to give a spellbinding performance, as a sickly 19th-century Italian woman, consumed by her love for a dashing soldier.

He was splendid, if she was not a woman consumed by the god, a woman who had no time for men, she might lose her breath at the sight of him.

The prosecution will argue that Laurel is a woman consumed by jealousy, a former spouse shed like old clothes, who was embittered and furious with Melanie for stealing her husband.

His long skirts looked instantly wearable - and understandable to women not consumed by fashion.

He'd never been obsessed with a woman, so consumed by desire.

The real Christine Vole revealed herself to be a woman consumed by love.

This lyrical, astute novel eloquently renders the tumultuous emotional state of a woman totally consumed with looking for her father.

Faith Albion is adequate in the role, but she is never fully convincing either as a woman renowned for her strict morals and happy marriage or, later, as a woman consumed by passion.

Here was a woman consumed with the idea that there was something out there worth listening to," Guber said, "but the one thing she could never make contact with was her own child.

"Tapage Nocturne"("Night Noises" 1979), a dark film about a married woman consumed by adultery, was criticized for its sexual boldness.