Positive personality trait

Passionate

adj. Showing strong enthusiasm, care, or commitment.

4 ready sentences Updated Run by Adrian Nutiu

What it looks like

  • Talks about a subject with visible energy.
  • Spends free time on what they care about.
  • Works on it long after others would stop.

Fits when someone cares intensely about a subject, a cause, or a craft and it shows

Not when passionate is filler with no sign of what the person cares about

How to say it

Replace the brackets with what the person actually did.

Fills [Name] in the reference and the report card comment, ready to copy.

  • Resume line
    Started [club, project or program] on [subject], growing it to [number] [members or users] in [period].
  • Reference or recommendation
    [Name] is passionate about [subject]: they [started a club, ran a project or taught others] in their own time.
  • Report card comment
    [Name] is passionate about science and brings ideas from home to share with the class.
  • In a story, shown not told
    She kept bees in a glass box on the classroom windowsill. By spring, half the class could tell a worker from a drone.
Example

The passionate science teacher kept a live beehive in the classroom window.

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