throes of passion
Consuming emotional intensity
Throes of passion describes intense, overwhelming emotional or physical feeling—typically sexual desire or romantic fervor.
Throes suggests violent struggle or spasm, so the phrase implies passion that grips and overwhelms: They fell into each other's arms in the throes of passion.
Sometimes used ironically for any consuming enthusiasm: I wrote that email in the throes of passion for the project.
- ardorIntense emotional warmth
- burning desireIntense emotional craving
- skinBody's outer layer
- tremblingInvoluntary shaking motion
- fervorIntense emotional intensity
tangled sheets · artistic creation · sweating · breath · heat · throb · grip · losing control · shudder · heavy breathing · yearning · ecstasy · anguish · ache · protests · zeal · moan · shivers
throes of passionemotional numbness
Absence of felt affect
apathy · ennui · blankness · indifference · equanimity
throes of passionself-possession
Calm control of oneself
sangfroid · equanimity · deliberation · level-headedness · stoicism
throes of passionemotional distance
Lack of closeness
disengagement · aloofness · detachment · uninvolvement · disinterest
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