grand passion

noun

1925–30; translation of French grande passion

Public Monuments would seem to be the grand passion of the Edinburghers.

The love of Lilian for Harold Routledge cannot now be the one grand passion of her life.

Even the memory of his grand passion was now corrupted, sullied, debased.

He has been sustaining a grand passion for a married woman, but the looming shadow of the husband obsesses him.

"I doubt it will be what they call a 'grand passion,'" he reflected with reverence.

Browse