Dr. Jacobson and most of his colleagues see themselves as scrupulous scientists of the unrulier passions.

But Covenant could hear an undercurrent of enthusiasm in the words-a timbre of passion too unruly to be concealed.

But as the dance progressed, they matured into young women with unruly passions.

For the untidy, unbuttoned majority, it says, unruly passion will ultimately have its way.

I do not here mean when he is under the power of an unruly passion, but in the steady calm course of his life.

This is a meeting of elegantly distanced classical ballet with a modern dance informed by unruly passion.

Though slight, the dance was a comic portrait of a woman of a certain age and uncertain but indisputably unruly passion.

Mr. Eisner has shown himself to be a man of great and unruly passions, not unlike the Moor.

She is a formal, precise, modest woman, unsettled by only one thing: her unruly passion for fresh fish.

That phrase, "unruly passion," defines the amused distance Mr. Ross puts between himself and his material.