It is generally believed that the poet's fatal passion for her contributed to his descent into insanity and ultimate death.
This very morning I consulted my magic books, and saw you in the act of abandoning your hearts to the fatal passion which will one day be your ruin.
"I should have to develop a fatal passion for him as an excuse."
Could he become prey to the same fatal passion?
A first-rate revival of Arthur Miller's portrait of fatal passion in blue-collar Brooklyn.
And it was quite impossible for him to believe that Ilalotha had died from a fatal passion: since, in his experience, passion was never fatal.
Mr. Marber, as you may have gathered, is a dramatist to make Racine, the classic chronicler of fatal passion, seem like an optimist.
My fatal passion for Philip promises to be the utter destruction of everything that is good in me.
He afterwords abandoned himself to a fatal passion for gaming, and his later works are hasty and careless.
But in this toothless staging the fatal human passions for power, vengeance and violence - hardly exclusive to antiquity - come across as so much clowning.