adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a passionate/impassioned speech (= full of strong feeling )
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She made impassioned speeches on civil rights.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
plea
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The sisters are concerned and making an impassioned plea .
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The Princess Royal yesterday made an impassioned plea for help on behalf of the country's six million carers.
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The parents' impassioned pleas that the best places of safety for their children were with their families was disregarded.
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If the impassioned pleas are directed at those close to the culprits, I can not see them having much effect.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Moore gave an impassioned defense of the government's role in the affair.
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Muir was an impassioned and persuasive champion of wilderness preservation.
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Robins criticized the investigation during an impassioned speech outside police headquarters.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But this singing was different, not quiet holy hymns but loud and impassioned .
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Caterina had not really understood the argument; but she now reconstituted her father's impassioned argument for contracts.
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He appeared unrepentant and impassioned in favour of us developing our nuclear muscle - for defence.
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His lips were impassioned and she swum dizzily in the swarm of love that buzzed through her.
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It was an impassioned , largely peaceful protest.
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Plotinus wrote his most impassioned tract to attack Gnosticism as pretentious mumbo-jumbo.
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There was an eloquent and impassioned speech from Mr Wash, Woolridge's defence lawyer.
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You can see why everyone is not a Highsmith fan, and perhaps why some of us are impassioned ones.