Meaning of passion-ridden | Babel Free

Definitions

Dominated or controlled by the passions (as opposed to the intellect, for example).

Examples

“[…] it needs little penetration to enable one to declare⟳ that the country will come⟳ out of such a struggle⟳ sadder, perhaps wiser, and certainly shorn of its wealth and greatness to an extent of which the passion-ridden or self-seeking advocates of strife, and the unreflecting multitude who cheer⟳ them on, take⟳ no thought.”

“[The song] summed up for him, in sweet harmonies, the destinies of living beings, the distressed agony of a flaming, passion-ridden world, and appealed to him, in the name⟳ of the immense pity that filled his soul, to go forth with his message of hope⟳ and liberation, and save⟳ the world.”

“The nationalities issue⟳ is deeply disturbed and the deterioration is deepening […] There is an irrational and passion-ridden atmosphere.”

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