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When he speaks, pointing lessons from the maneuver, he becomes animated to the extent of impassionedness, but never expressing himself otherwise than with simplicity and purity.

From Foch the Man A Life of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Armies by Laughlin, Clara E. (Clara Elizabeth)

Rubinstein excelled by his sincerity, by his demoniacal, Heaven-storming power of great impassionedness, qualities which with Liszt had passed through the sieve of a superior education and—if you understand how I mean that term—gentlemanly elegance.

From Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered by Hofmann, Josef