Not that Brazilians are any less passionate about human life, but what a gag!

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She has grown outwardly gentler, though no less passionate in her convictions or steely in her determination.

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In the Winter Games, the same is likely to be true for sports U.S. fans are traditionally less passionate about, such as curling, luge and skeleton.

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No less passionate are Danny Barker and Ian Carr.

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Proving the adage that everything old is new again, Pinehurst Number Two has roared onto the Must-Play list of any passionate golfer and is now nothing less than the best inland public course in North America.

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For much of his life he was a passionate believer in the power of eating less.

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