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Passion play
passion play
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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a dramatic performance representing Christ's Passion from the Last Supper to the Crucifixion.
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`PASSION' MAY FUEL FAITH AT EASTER
Newspaper article from: Dayton Daily News; 4/11/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...impact will last.' In years past, passion plays were part of the Easter celebration...of worship services keying on The Passion . Launched two Sundays ago, the...t familiar with the story, The Passion stirs up a lot of questions...
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Passion mop up with Mayhem
Newspaper article from: Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...quarterfinal match-up. The Passion will face the Cleveland...took a good special teams play by Jo Jo Warner late in the first quarter for the Passion offense to hit its stride...Michigan 20-yard line, the Passion took advantage of a short...
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Putting passion into Presbyterians: Presbyterians may be faithful, but rarely passionate.
Magazine article from: Presbyterian Record; 4/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...all the negatives about the play miss the point. Too often...something we all need and desire. Passion. Shakespeare's play embodies passion. The feud between the two...contrast and reveal a breadth of passion that appeals to us -- because...
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Passion Parties President Pat Davis Launches the Passion Parties Guide to Great Sex Right in Time for Valentines Day.
PR Newswire; 1/8/2007; 700+ words
; ...millions of women each year. THE PASSION PARTIES GUIDE TO GREAT SEX...from women who have attended Passion Parties, the consultants and...discover how to: * Find your Passion Diva and bring her out to play * Bring the "right" woman...
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Sublime Passions
Newspaper article from: The Press; 3/28/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...descendants of the medieval mystery plays that were largely swept away...Matthew Passion was not the only Passion composed by Bach. The St John Passion was first performed in 1724 while a St Mark's Passion has disappeared -- apart...death. The two surviving Passions endure as part of ...
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America's First Passion Poll Identifies the Passion Fakers and Seriously Passionate Movers and Shakers.
Business Wire; 8/24/2005; 700+ words
; ...some of our hottest celebrity icons lack passion off-screen. However, when it comes to America's cities, passion plays a huge part in the cities that rock the passion poll and the cities that roll off the passion...
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MACMILLAN: St. John Passion
Magazine article from: Opera News; 8/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...from Bach's St. Matthew Passion. The seventh vocal section...London Symphony Orchestra plays with fervent intensity. The St. John Passion is dedicated to Colin Davis...birthday. Davis gives die Passion as fine a reading as may ever...
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Reason, passion, and politics in Rousseau *.(Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
Magazine article from: Polity; 9/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...the human capacity for passion so clearly a threat...constraining" or "outweighing" passions with law or reason be our primary goal? Is passion even as clearly separable...the positive roles that passion might play in politics. My argument...
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Spinoza's virtuous passions.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 6/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...more specific, moral sense. The passions, unlike other knowledge of the...degree of perfection. As such, the passions play an important role in moral reasoning...Indeed, it follows that the passions are indispensable to moral reasoning...
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TROUBLED PASSION CRUCIFIXION PLAYS PROVIDE ACTION AND YOU-ARE-THERE DRAMA. THEY ALSO GET THE GOSPELS DANGEROUSLY WRONG.
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 2/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...of tragic drama. Passion plays graphically depicted...objected to a passion play proposed in New...the Oberammergau Passion Play," the performance...least by passion plays themselves. Today...When it comes to passion plays, however, this...Krauskopf called ...
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Passions
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...Human beings have been given passions as a basis for action, and...particular, Voltaire defended the passion of self-love, duly channeled...transformations. As for Aquinas, the passions were for Descartes the vector...environment, and reason had to play a role in regulating them...distinction ...
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passion
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
...said to represent the hands and scourges of Jesus' torturers. passion play a dramatic performance representing Jesus's Passion from the Last Supper to the Crucifixion. Passion Sunday the fifth Sunday in Lent, the beginning of Passiontide...
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Passion Music
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...practice of setting to mus. the Passion of Christ, for perf. during...old mysteries (see Miracle Plays ) and (a more direct and...fashion, the story of the Passion of Christ. It is known to...in Lat., the story of the Passion from one of the Gospels...Turba). By the 15th cent. Passions of ...
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Passion
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
...the 15th cent. The St John Passion (1723) and St Matthew Passion (1729) of J. S. Bach are...the most familiar of these Passions. Passion Sunday is the 5th Sunday in...with Palm Sunday. Passion plays are enactments of the suffering...these is a late example, the play at ...
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Passion play
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Passion play genre of the miracle play that has survived from the Middle Ages...and resurrection of Jesus. Passion plays were first given in Latin. By the...verses, and 200 years later the entire play was performed in German. Toward the...
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