Actually, I think passion - intensity of feeling, action and expression - has always been an essential part of the national character on this island.

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It was in some ways an expression of his feeling of having been used, then betrayed, by the West.

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Yet beneath the formal structures of ecclesiastical authority, the expression of religious feeling was increasingly laicised and its doctrinal base became progressively more heterodox.

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But at the time the expression matched the widespread feeling about the British leader, pugnaciously leading a brave nation against an all-conquering foe.

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It makes the expression on the face immune to feeling, and therefore empathy.

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They came from all walks of Arab life, and there was a feeling of - the Arab have a good expression, shamata.

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And so, not only am I grateful for the expression of deep friendship that President Sarkozy expressed, but I want to affirm the mutuality of feeling that we have towards the French people.

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