Meanings of burning interest in English

Jack watched the stranger's progress with deep and burning interest.

Language had never been a burning interest for Lemmon.

Before the late Summer of 1914, England had evinced no burning interest in its Henry.

In sundry third floors back, she had for years followed the current casualties with burning interest.

Susy records another burning interest of this time:

Maurice and Jean, who had watched the gallant effort with burning interest, uttered an exclamation of rage.

Not a remarkable possession for someone with a burning interest in photography, but it undoubtedly served its purpose.

The studies of Forfait were made when the invasion of England by rowing boats was a topic of burning interest.

As I grew stronger I felt an intense and burning interest in the history that had been developing when I fell ill.

With her own burning interest in the subject and her personal fascination, she could accomplish far more than any weary professor could do.

The reason is that they lie proximate to our field of thought, and are topics which are of burning interest to the metaphysically minded.

Suppose you have a burning interest in presidential politics and its philosophical quandaries, like "Does oral sex performed outside of marriage constitute infidelity?"

Suffice it to say that we cannot answer it, any more than we can this further question of burning interest at the present day, viz.

'So you see, everyone feels a burning interest in Dom's moves during the next few days.

Burning interest was felt by those "creatures that once were men" in the prospective fight between Kuvalda and Petunikoff, which they already saw in imagination.