Gordon is motivated by a simple, fierce and ancient passion: the relentless drive of a mother to save her child.

Compelled by the ancient passion of the Bloodguard, Korik asked, "Why did you not fight?"

On an open stage littered with dirt and debris, against a background of hand-painted slide projections of smoke, rain and wind, ancient passions are coming to life.

With this ancient passion crackling all around him, Johnston seems to have been helped by his own lack of deep reflection into the meaning of it all.

No component of the French forces at Verdun was more conscious of the influence of the new commander than his ancient passion, the artillery.

So much for the earnest common belief that all such ancient passions were extinct, that raw violence of that bloody kind had evolved out of the race.

Consummated some ancient passion she hadn't even consciously acknowledged?

His strenuous, beseeching style is at least half of the group's appeal: he connects with flamenco's ancient passion, which speaks to anyone with a pulse.

Stirred by ancient passions, she was careful to keep them in check; but the asceticism which made her reject their seduction was not convincing.

It lies upon my desk, a dead souvenir of the dead ages of the world, of the ancient passions of my heart.