The globe-trotting daughter of a former Cantonese diplomat is feisty and impassioned, like a stiletto-shod mashup of vintage Spice Girl and Manolo Blahnik.
But when pressed for broader examples, members of the community resort to vague yet impassioned statements about a "way of life" and their fluency with two cultures.
The impassioned pursuit of a definitive vision may better describe what it feels like once an entrepreneur hits her stride, rather than reflect the far messier and less certain process of how she got going in the first place.
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This design philosophy gets to the heart of the fundamental difference between employees who punch a clock, and impassioned workers who really show up to make a difference each day.
The action followed months of impassioned public debate initiated by a petition signed by hundreds of residents asking for a ban on fracking.
Maduro, who Chavez had named as his preferred successor before his death, gave a lengthy, impassioned speech that made him emotional at times.
To take a more recent example, Arundhati Roy, India's Booker-prize novelist, not long ago wrote a long and impassioned article in one of India's weekly magazines portraying capitalists, especially foreign ones, as plunderers.
Other speakers made impassioned pleas for global consensus on a way forward, warning that failure to reach agreement would mean disaster.
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The underlying problem with Charlie's Angels is that it represents more of a mechanical entertainment product than an impassioned creation.
Last month in nearby Abu Dhabi a Saudi woman drew cheers at a televised poetry contest, reciting impassioned verses against religious bigotry.
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Woody goes one way, but Shaun gravitates towards the impassioned rhetoric and strength he sees in Combo, a father figure who flatters his sense of injustice and betrayal.
The Guggenheim Foundation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago are among the museums that have written impassioned letters to the Senate Finance Committee begging for a change in the new law affecting "fractional" donations of art.
The extent to which these represent two surprisingly distinct world views was emphasized by the impassioned and quite different responses I received in response to a recent post examining how the use of cheaper but slightly worse drugs should be prioritized by physicians and payors.
Told in a clever mix of forward motion and flashback, the Quayles' story evolves from their first meeting, at a lecture of his where she is an impassioned and out-of-control heckler, through their early marriage, their transfer to Kenya, her pregnancy and the beginnings of her journey of discovery about the evils of Big Pharma.
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This amazing and impassioned fantasia about American loneliness begins as satire and ends with a vision of the sublime.
Mahatma Gandhi, on a stop at the local station, makes an impassioned call for reform which inspires the child-bride and the now bereaved lover to flee the town together and accompany Gandhi to a brighter future.
The still lifes are a warm-up for the exhibition's main event: four large galleries of landscapes, the best of which give a splendid impression of Van Gogh's mercurial, impassioned genius.
Madonna gave an impassioned speech to the audience about discrimination and tolerance, while dressed as a boy scout.
But see it too as an example of how powerful a feature film still can be in the hands of an impassioned filmmaker.
In fact, one impassioned Vietnamese argues, the comparison is inadequate, since fish sauce is a more sophisticated product than wine: only a tiny number of wines survive longer than 50 years, whereas fish sauce continues to grow in flavour and complexity indefinitely.
In fact, there are a number of new producers entering the market whose wines have developed an impassioned following.
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Tomorrow is also a red letter day for another reason - explained here in another, somewhat less impassioned letter from Carwyn Jones, this time to the Deputy First Minister.
During the debate public health minister Yvette Cooper made an impassioned plea for scientists to be given the go-ahead for stem cell research, denying it was a "slippery slope" to human cloning.
For players, the distinctive sound of jazz has derived not from acquiring a conventional classical technique on an instrument, but from emulating the spontaneous twists and turns of an impassioned voice.
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