impassioning

“It was arguably fair, when André Maurois finished his Histoire de la France, to permit him a small allowance of la gloire and to agree with his conclusion that “The history of France, a permanent miracle, has the singular privilege of impassioning the peoples of the earth to the point where they all take part in French quarrels.””

A French Quarrel

“Personal prudence even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first.”

Billy Budd

“It is these fascinating and impassioning problems, every day becoming of more urgent practical importance, which it is the task of Social Hygiene to solve, having first created the men and women who are fit to solve them.”

The Task of Social Hygiene

“It was as if the suspicious affair which was impassioning the Chamber had no concern for him.”

The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris

“However, Donna Serafina had now risen, shrewdly suspecting the nature of the conversation which was impassioning the two girls.”

The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris