Meanings of american passion in English

The American passion for getting up in the world took possession of them.

You have the native American passion,-thepassion for the picturesque.

They had been misled by their American passion for looks.

American passions are not engaged because most Americans do not regard our interest there as vital.

The Suez crisis has been one that engaged no American passions-or ,atany rate, very few.

There was a chance for some leisure, for the higher gratification of the intense American passion for education.

'Shenandoah' dealt broadly with the forces and feelings behind the Civil War; the 'Henrietta' with the American passion for speculation-themoney-madnessthat was dividing families.