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  • Israel has the better excuse, driven half mad by threats and wars and the suicide bombings of the Second Intifada; but a series of queasy concessions to the fanatical colonists who are sometimes miscalled "settlers" have deformed its politics from within. David Bromwich: Rules of Engagement from Baghdad to Gaza
  • My fanatical interest in bluegrass began when I was 9 years old," he wrote. UC Berkeley graduate with autism produces honors thesis on bluegrass music
  • Tiny in numbers and fanatical in zeal. The Sun
  • They are rather fanatical about lengthening their own lives and fending off death indefinitely.
  • Cockfighting (two roosters battling each other in a ring) commands a fanatical following.
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  • A colporteur, known to me, when engaged selling Bibles in a Brazilian town, reports that the fanatical populace got his books and carried them, fastened and burning, at the end of blazing torches, while they tramped the streets, yelling: "Away with all false books! Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America
  • Having just completed an audacious leap from aircraft into the jaws of death, five hundred feet above Munsan-ni, against a numerically superior and fanatical force, we were ready to return to K-2 Airstrip at Taegu. Lafayette Keaton
  • Though he recognized the importance of luck, or providence as he usually called it, and opportunity, he saw his own political success as a product of his iron determination and fanatical belief in his mission.
  • My friend, Patrick, has always been a fanatical opponent of Mr. Lane ? ? s Radical Progressive Party.
  • He demurs: any movement of a certain size will attract people who are ‘a bit fanatical’ but ‘you're never going to agree with all of them’.
  • It is feared the two fanatical groups will try to outdo each other in barbarity to gain the upper hand. The Sun
  • Scrupulous research and a fanatical concern for historical accuracy is a demonstration of Weir's seriousness.
  • Eg : " My friend, Crawley, has always been a fanatical opponent of Mr Lane's Radical Progressive Party .
  • People want their staple diet and they are fanatical about their home team. Times, Sunday Times
  • A short man with graying hair and tinted glasses, Ecclestone is fanatical about neatness.
  • As a student, he experienced a fanatical conversion to Marxism.
  • The only question is how bilious and fanatical.
  • It's quite worrying that there are people out to kill us, people motivated by fanatical hatred and religious extremism.
  • Yet "Great Soul" also obligingly gives readers more than enough information to discern that he was a sexual weirdo, a political incompetent and a fanatical faddist—one who was often downright cruel to those around him. Among the Hagiographers
  • It very much surprised me about the Americans, as they seem to be fanatical about God and Religion.
  • In my experience, coming across as a fanatical fundamentalist doesn't work with rational people.
  • Several narratives intertwine as Lovric charts Marcella's tortuous, Minguillo-instigated progress through crippledom, a lunatic asylum and eventually a convent, including that of the fanatical nun Sor Loreta, who mortifies her body and starves herself to attain holiness while being as vile as possible to the less saintly nuns around her. Home
  • As I say, Mum was fanatically house-proud and she didn't want too much `noise' and `mess'. RESCUING ROSE
  • I'm going to skip, for the sake of brevity (and fairness), the naming and blaming of the person who let me know that Obama asking for dijon mustard is the source of a right wing fanatical frenzy. Obama and dijon mustard: the history behind the headlines.
  • The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. Eric Hoffer 
  • There's the urbane family man, charming in company and fanatical about sport.
  • If they weren't fanatical about Christianity, what would they be fanatical about?
  • And the fanatical home support will be wearing blue instead of red. Times, Sunday Times
  • To _promote separation from the world_ and deadness to it, and so to increase heavenly-mindedness in children of God; at the same time warning against fanatical extremes and extravagances, such as sinless perfection while in the flesh. George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God
  • Unlike fanatical me, they were all planning on cramming for their finals.
  • He called Kyl a "nice guy" who had told a "horrible lie" that he said was fed to him by "fanatical enemies of Planned Parenthood who hate the idea that the word 'planned' should ever come before the word 'parenthood.' Lawrence O'Donnell Tears Up While Emotionally Defending Planned Parenthood In Government Shutdown Fight (VIDEO)
  • Every country in the world I've been to, there are groups of people that are really fanatical about saving the shark.
  • Mothers were fanatical about making sure their homes and family were decent.
  • But he was still her sister's husband and the fanatical words of the speech came back to her, alarming her. THE WHITE DOVE
  • Wars in the name of political ambitions and crusades for fanatical religious faiths are all part of man's history to this day.
  • As for the figure at the center of the story, Mr. Horwitz sees him too often as the grim Old Man of long-ago histories: bold, arrogant, sly, fanatical, murderous, muddle-headed and possibly insane. An Angry Prophet
  • That was one thing that bound us together - our fanatical attention to detail. Times, Sunday Times
  • They are well-informed, ideologically sound and fanatically loyal to their parties.
  • Méchain was fanatical about accuracy and, as we shall soon see, these measurements would cause him anguish for the rest of his life.
  • The queen's prohibition of the "prophesyings," or the assemblies instituted for fanatical prayers and conferences, was founded on a better reason, but shows still the unlimited extent of her prerogative. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I.
  • The trick, I guess, is not to get too fanatical about getting the accent too accurate because then that becomes a mask.
  • The attempt to act in accordance with a system of ideas is invariably denounced as ideological, fanatical, utopian or millenarian.
  • The people there are fanatical about what they do, and until that wears off they will be tough to beat.
  • Churches with thousands of members that de-emphasize studies of scripture while pushing communal solidarity run a serious risk of creating large populations of uninformed and fanatical chauvinists.
  • A group of vagabonds and derelicts inhabit a shelter in Moscow, presided over by a fanatical leader who preaches the love of everyone for everyone.
  • Some fanatical moron is wibbling on about something hopelessly biased, and hopelessly wrong.
  • The band has a fanatically loyal British following.
  • He narrates how he fanatically read, trained and thought of it all his waking hours.
  • The hijackers used fanatical certainty, misplaced religious faith, and dehumanising hatred to purge themselves of the human instinct for empathy.
  • However, I always love to receive gardening gadgets; so if your mother is a fanatical gardener you could get her a new trowel, some copper plant labels, a trug to stash cut flowers in, a plant pot or a twine dispenser.
  • UK parcels volumes were up by just 2 per cent, not particularly impressive in a nation of increasingly fanatical online shoppers. Times, Sunday Times
  • So much so, in fact, that he became almost as fanatical about authenticity as his tutor. Times, Sunday Times
  • Most of the divers thought I was a little fanatical about my two projects -- information storage and what I called the duplicator library -- mint condition originals of any equipment we might need. Timegod's World
  • Rugged, mountainous, impenetrable, recalcitrant and peopled by an enemy hardened and fanatical, it was considered unconquerable.
  • The radio functioned well enough, if you were satisfied with AM reception only, but I was a fanatical FM listener.
  • I profess myself a fanatical purist, but with a hearty contempt for the speech-gilders who affect purism without any thorough, or even pedagogic knowledge of the engendure, growth, and affinities of the noble language about whose The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
  • For the sake of truth, I must add that the fanatical enormities perpetrated in the name of religion are only to be put down to the adherents of monotheistic creeds, that is, the Jewish faith and its two branches, Christianity and Islamism. Religion
  • Exactly 100 years ago this week, Wales was in the midst of a fervent religious revival led by a young Methodist, stoking fanatical excitement and emotional excesses.
  • As it was the dozen tries that Boroughmuir scored in the first half was enough to numb the senses of even the most fanatical supporter.
  • But such measures offer no deterrent to a single fanatical suicide attacker.
  • What's even MORE terrifying is that some people take her fanatical views seriously. (even congress) What is this world coming to? Palin warns of 'disturbing' health care rationing
  • I leave you with one thought & a plausible end to fanatical religionist terrorism: Think green ecologically & economically green, a trillion dollar industry meeting all the requirements of unabused capitalism. Think Progress » FULL TRANSCRIPT: Clinton Takes On Fox News
  • If we are too fanatical about cleaning we might also be killing off all the good bacteria as well as the bad. The Sun
  • The fanatical Fulham fan successfully defended his Southern title last February with a 10-round points success over Harrow's Matthew Tait.
  • Instead, the neocons were depicted as fanatical ideologues, with no mention of their roots in the business community or their furtherance of corporate interests.
  • We are grieving not just for the dead but also for all our own fearful futures - the threat of war, more suffering and more fanatical hatred.
  • These books are an indictment of uncompromising, fanatical, and utopian ideology.
  • His enthusiasm for aerobics was almost fanatical.
  • The most fanatical bull-on-the-breakfast-table papalist does not demand an order from the Pope before a Christian needs to behave like a decent person when faced by murder.
  • | Reply | Permalink maximin: "If you find it fanatical of us to live by some sort of principles that involve integrity, racial equality, and promoting equal access to voting rights, then I am happy to be a fanatic. Culinary Workers Union Fliers Hit Hillary Over Caucus Lawsuit
  • We bring to our efforts a fanatical obsession with quality and exclusivity.
  • He was a gym rat, a fanatical weight lifter who had once been Mr.
  • Of course Meredith can do it, and so could Shakespeare; but with all my romance, I am a realist and a prosaist, and a most fanatical lover of plain physical sensations plainly and expressly rendered; hence my perils. Vailima Letters
  • ARE you one of football's most fanatical fans? The Sun
  • Anyone expressing trenchant anti-monarchist views is now suspected of sympathising with Irish republicanism's most fanatical fringe.
  • Hughes has worked hard on curbing his fiery nature, reining in his fanatical work-rate in the gym and getting him to control and direct his natural aggression.
  • I used to be totally fanatical about dates, but then I've slowly gone off those and now I just eat raisins and prunes.
  • Employed with collateral means calculated to shake the nerves and excite the imagination, mesmerism causes the same variety of convulsive and violent seizures which extremes of fanatical frenzy excite; when it is employed in a gentle form and manner, with accessaries that only soothe and tranquillise, the most plain and unpretending form of trance quietly steps upon the scene. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847
  • The party is both fanatical and well-informed, and thus unlikely either to "ossify" or "grow soft" and collapse. Doublethink
  • He is a fanatical hunter.
  • The elimination of all relics of the Hashemites was undertaken with fanatical zeal.
  • UK parcels volumes were up by just 2 per cent, not particularly impressive in a nation of increasingly fanatical online shoppers. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mr Able usually wore a hat and had long grey hair and was fanatical about music, especially The Beatles.
  • January 24th, 2009 4: 03pm carl you are at it again is this the mads gilbert, fanatical PALESTINIAN APOLOGIST WE ARE TALKING ABOUT? he was exposed on an earlier thread by a Norwegian!! On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • The fight was almost fanatical. Times, Sunday Times
  • As I see it Women-led mixed is the only formula which stands a chance of deconstructing the fanatical Real Men's Gangs and 'recall to sonhood' their individual members. by John Graham's Sit Down Young Stranger: One Man's Search for Meaning
  • TechCrunch has clearly staked out a new fanatical opposition to anything Apple-related and an unwavering fundamentalism that outstretches welcoming arms of credulity for anything Google-related. Google Should Make Apple Beg For Maps Navigation
  • A discovery of Anglo-Catholicism and its devotional power, originally through its fanatical critics, and then fostered by wise friends.
  • Top of the range Scotches attract a fanatical following among whisky buffs.
  • UK parcels volumes were up by just 2 per cent, not particularly impressive in a nation of increasingly fanatical online shoppers. Times, Sunday Times
  • I want to know how he did it; I want to know how he rose to such an all-powerful position and inspired the fanatical love and worship from so many of his followers.
  • Religious fundamentalism is marked by a fanatical concern with a universally valid and context-free "truth" along the lines of the Hellenistic tradition. David Shasha: Monolingualism, Scriptural Translation and the Problem of Western Civilization
  • His ruthless and fanatical belief in violence not only set him apart from the responsible leaders of the civil rights movement - it also marked him out for notoriety and a violent end.
  • As fanatically demanding of attention as Jude was when I came over, Scout, in contrast, made no noise at all, just kind of meandered in & stuck his nose in my face... Scout Joe
  • A similarly heightened, highly poetic, sensibility invades the etchings that began in the 1980s, black whorls and stippled textures fanatically worked, the artist relishing the "element of danger and mystery" that accompanies slipping a heavily worked plate into acid. Lucian Freud obituary
  • In the past he had enjoyed luxury, but as he grew more fanatical, his lifestyle grew more ascetic. Times, Sunday Times
  • The band has a fanatically loyal British following.
  • She screamed, and went into a fanatical frenzy, pushing aside her weariness for one last blaze of glory.
  • Because we are not talking about simplistic, crazy, crackpot religious fanatical elements. A Rock and a Hard Place
  • And the fanatical home support will be wearing blue instead of red. Times, Sunday Times
  • Raul's flatmate, Anto, was crouched in front of the TV fanatically playing PlayStation 2 and making grunting noises. JUST BETWEEN US
  • They are attended by the soulless shades of their most fanatical worshippers, courtiers, and factotums.
  • The Orthodox of the metropolitanate, after the Union of Brest, fanatically opposed the progress of the Unionists. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
  • It's always amused me that some of the most fanatical anti-tobacco activists are also mad keen on legalising dope.
  • Not slavishly or fanatically (as a compulsive overeater with a daily reprieve, I don't do well with fads and tangents). Victoria Moran: Veg and the City: The Life Changing Effects of a Raw Food Diet
  • They were also fanatical total abstainers; not only was St. Benedict's kindly concession of a hemina of wine rejected, but the vineyards were rooted up and the wine-presses and vessels destroyed. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
  • It was an emotional appointment for a club with huge and fanatical support and fierce regional pride which had suffered decades of disappointment. Times, Sunday Times
  • The frontispiece to Hokusai's Illustrated Manual on Coloring of 1848 shows a fanatical painter holding five brushes in feet, hands, and mouth, all at work painting.
  • I abhor such fanatical phantasimes, such insociable and point-devise companions; such rackers of orthography, as to speak dout, fine, when he should say doubt; det, when he should pronounce debt, — d, Love’s Labour ’s Lost
  • There's a small, but rabid group of fanatical followers.
  • The revolutionary intelligentsia became fanatically convinced of its own exclusive moral and intellectual superiority.
  • These ideologies, so fanatically nursed, are best described as spectacularly ass-backwards (to borrow an appalling, phlegmatic phrase). Qanta Ahmed, MD: The Adventures of Itamar Marcus and the Hamas Bunny: Palestine at Play
  • Those of you familiar with my column know I'm pretty fanatical about security.
  • The fact that the suspects fought, under those circumstances, seems to prove they were as fanatical as your psychograph says you are. A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows
  • It rests on aggressive xenophobia, chauvinism, fanatical imperial ambitions and fascist demagogy.
  • The level of delusion here eclipses that of the most fanatical of religious zealots.
  • Blame it on the lightless conspiracy of bee life, a secret guarded by ten thousand fanatically loyal, armed soldiers.
  • These books are an indictment of uncompromising, fanatical, and utopian ideology.
  • `Of course your fanatical attempts to make me happy sprang not from hero-worship but from insecurity. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
  • The revolutionary intelligentsia became fanatically convinced of its own exclusive moral and intellectual superiority.
  • As a fanatical fight for purity and against any form of assimilation, it cannot be palliated. Great Transition~ Where Are We
  • It is feared the two fanatical groups will try to outdo each other in barbarity to gain the upper hand. The Sun
  • As opposed the what Nietzsche called the "Apollonian" side of culture, that which seeks balance and structure, we were now moving into the realm of the "Dionysian" - the irrational, the delusional, the fanatical side of human nature. Guarding America's Future Against the Heirs of Cromwell
  • Art builds upon and reinvests itself, with ever more possibility and potential, unbound and unscathed by fanatical historicities and narrow idolizations.
  • The concept of heroism became unthinkable except in relation to fanatical military force.
  • And after three years in jail, is it really possible that he has moved away from his extremist, fanatical views? The Sun
  • My friend, Patrick, has always been a fanatical opponent of Mr. Lane ? ? s Radical Progressive Party.
  • His reign was marked by bullying management, increasing casualisation, fanatical hatred of trade unions and a constant chipping away at wages and conditions.
  • All the performers were almost fanatically health-conscious.
  • It graphically showed there are no depths IS and its fanatical followers won't sink to. The Sun
  • The Pentagon says that most of the battle deaths they've suffered now are from what they call deadly deceptions, in which fanatical Iraqi fighters are posing either as civilians or pretending to surrender. CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2003
  • The attempt to act in accordance with a system of ideas is invariably denounced as ideological, fanatical, utopian or millenarian.
  • In the past he had enjoyed luxury, but as he grew more fanatical, his lifestyle grew more ascetic. Times, Sunday Times
  • Long after the marketing campaign is done, we will still be fanatical about providing the most secure mission-critical software in the business.
  • Football fans in this region are often said to the most fanatical in the country and so deserve teams among the elite.
  • The Irish are fanatical about racing, extremely knowledgeable and are always on the lookout for an equine hero.
  • Salman Rushdie is so much identified with seriousness — his choice of subjects, from Kashmir to Andalusia; his position as a literary negotiator of East and West; his decade and more of internal exile in hiding from the edict of a fanatical theocrat — that it can be easy to forget how humorous he is. Cassocks and Codpieces
  • A fanatical believer is a very insecure and fearful person.
  • As a lot of people know already, she's a really obsessed, fanatical football fan.
  • The speech was aimed directly at the government's extremely austere fiscal stance and its almost fanatical adherence to monetarism.
  • I have become fanatical about it. Times, Sunday Times
  • * I've heard of, but never known personally, dogs that have been snakebit, survived, and became fanatical snake killers. Snakes in the Grass?
  • She's fanatical about healthy eating.
  • They bustled along talking to their invisible friends, or stood abstracted on the kerb the fingers of one hand fiddling away in the palm of the other, or, like iAnna footled fanatically with a filmy square-foot. The Guardian World News
  • Jean Claude is also a lover of animals, and when he does something, he is fanatical about it.
  • Blame it on the lightless conspiracy of bee life, a secret guarded by ten thousand fanatically loyal, armed soldiers.
  • We will match their determination with our own; we will be as resolute as they are fanatical; as strong in defence of good as they are hell-bent on doing evil.
  • His enthusiasm for aerobics was almost fanatical.
  • The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. Eric Hoffer 
  • In opposing the notion that the Nazi phenomenon arose from traits and trends peculiar only to Germans, Barraclough appended to the above statement about the "fanatical minority" not being representative an impressive selection of little known corroboratory data. The Nazi Disease
  • I love my grandson with a devotion that other people see as fanatical and ludicrous. Times, Sunday Times
  • As may be easily supposed, we possess very few authentic details about a people whose written annals were burnt by the ignorant "conquistadores" and by fanatical monks, who jealously suppressed everything which might remind the conquered race of their ancient religious and political traditions. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World
  • She still smoked occasionally and was not a fanatical exerciser. The Sun
  • The ‘distance’ between him and his work is different from that of a professional artist, but more like a miniaturist or a naive artist, fanatical about detail.
  • However, during the McCarthy-era anti-communist witch-hunts he was once again named as a risk to national security by an informer who described him as ‘an active and fanatical Stalinist’.
  • It's a dangerous world out there; hordes of fanatical evildoers are bent on committing unspeakable crimes against us.
  • Finally, the third: people without religion, accustomed to pillage, to murder, to quarter themselves upon the peasants; a rascalry furious, fanatical, and swarming with prophetesses. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5
  • People want their staple diet and they are fanatical about their home team. Times, Sunday Times
  • LAMB: On page 180, you give 16 reasons, I counted, that you wanted people to consider for -- why all this happened: ` One, precolonial inequalities; two, the fanatically thorough and '-- hierchial -- ` hierarchical centralized administration; three, the hematic myth and the radical polarization under Belgian rule.' We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda
  • The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. Eric Hoffer 
  • he followed the teachings of his guru fanatically
  • Top of the range Scotches attract a fanatical following among whisky buffs.
  • She followed Lt. Tod's orders with a zeal that the others joked was fanatical.
  • And that makes it more than serviceable for the normal run of fanatical ideologues, confirmed partisans and weak-minded bumpkins to make use of endlessly.
  • Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.
  • Blame it on the lightless conspiracy of bee life, a secret guarded by ten thousand fanatically loyal, armed soldiers.
  • The chief leaders of the Anabaptists were natives of Holland, including the famous or infamous John of Leyden, who with some thousands of these fanatical sectaries perished at Münster in 1535. History of Holland
  • Puamana was superstitious, solitary, vain about her looks, never late, indeed fanatical in matters of punctuality, a brisk walker, not a loiterer or a lingerer. Beard
  • I've always known that cat owners are somewhat fanatical when it comes to their pets, but the sheer number of sites devoted to this finicky member of the animal kingdom probably outnumbers the amount of cats in this country.
  • There was no fanatical gleam in his eye, no catchphrases, no spin - but still, I left the meeting convinced that I'd met the modern-day equivalent of Noah and we'd better start listening to him.
  • She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious
  • I was a very fanatical fan. The Sun
  • He said: 'The fans are so fanatical. The Sun
  • The first, a satire, is about the attempts of a fanatical doctor to cure a group of alcoholics.
  • Though I've grown tired of Hillary over this primary season, a big part of me believes that having her on the ticket as the VP is the very best way to make sure Hillary's sometimes fanatical supporters do vote democratic this fall. Clinton says she's open to being VP
  • The soldiers surrounding him had seemed to know little more than he, but gradually the word trickled back that a small but fanatical band of xenophobes had infiltrated the colony and were killing every thranx in sight as well as any visiting humans who tried to interfere with their bloodthirsty spree. Dirge
  • If you are not rich or a fanatical figure spewing lies and half truths to boaster support, getting them votes, they have no interest in you or hearing your views. Blue Dog will vote against bill with public option
  • Puamana was superstitious, solitary, vain about her looks, never late, indeed fanatical in matters of punctuality, a brisk walker, not a loiterer or a lingerer. Beard
  • He has little hope left of staying in office apart from dismissing parliament and the threat of violence by his fanatical supporters.
  • The dominant available images prescribe a particularly parochial set of options: a barricaded and insulated rejectionist leadership; pitiful masses suffering in teeming refugee camps or squalid, quarantined communities; and, most prominent of all, terrorist suicide bombers, fanatical malevolent creatures, bereft of normal human motivation and well beyond our comprehension. January « 2008 « Bill Ayers
  • And the fanatical home support will be wearing blue instead of red. Times, Sunday Times
  • Top of the range Scotches attract a fanatical following among whisky buffs.
  • Having a fanatical enemy that works for law enforcement can lead to extremely dangerous situations.
  • And the fanatical home support will be wearing blue instead of red. Times, Sunday Times
  • On that occasion Bonaparte owed his life only to the irresolution of the young 'illuminato' who wished to sacrifice him to his fanatical fury. Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
  • The consumption of sugar still goes up despite all the fanatical attacks from health cranks.
  • In fact, she had become almost fanatical about raising her and taking care of everything.
  • A fanatical Aberdeen Football Club supporter, he endures plenty of good-hearted stick from his colleagues about his allegiances with great good humour.
  • Like Charles Manson, the criminal he admired, Pell exuded a dark charisma and attracted a group of devoted and fanatical followers, whom he called his “Family”—a term borrowed from the Manson clan—and over whom he exercised absolute control. THE DEVIL’S TEARDROP
  • Captain Fannicot, a bold and impatient bourgeois, a sort of condottiere of the order of those whom we have just characterized, a fanatical and intractable governmentalist, could not resist the temptation to fire prematurely, and the ambition of capturing the barricade alone and unaided, that is to say, with his company. Les Miserables
  • Somebody gets trampled to death or a duly elected congressperson is injured or worse by some extremist following the dictates of their fanatical leaders? Town hall meeting on health care turns ugly
  • Bergen quotes Muhammad Musa, "a laconic, massively built commander" who led 600 Afghan soldiers to the Tora Bora front lines, on the fanatical braveness of al-Qaeda's fighters. Peter Bergen's "The Longest War"
  • In short, fanatical attention to detail. Times, Sunday Times
  • His father was a French émigré, his mother Catherine Welby, a fanatical Protestant sectarian.
  • Edward Herrmann is Hearst, a big and strangely unlovable teddy bear of a man, spying fanatically on his guests and fellow passengers and especially on his beautiful mistress Marion Davies, played by Kirsten Dunst.
  • If you like reading about literature, can ignore the frequent use of the ugly word "problematize", and aren't fanatically wedded to one theoretical approach, the book can be addictive. Archive 2005-07-01
  • Now it is said that the inscrutable coach will have to live up to the demands placed on him by the billion people living within a fanatical football nation.
  • The keen swimmer and fanatical Rovers fan taught thousands of people, young and old, to swim within the 10m teaching pool.
  • My friend, Crawley, has always been a fanatical opponent of Mr. Lane's Radical Progressive Party.
  • That the sixteenth chapter of Mr.G. did not excite the same or greater disapprobation, is a proof of the unphilosophical and indeed fanatical animosity against Christianity, which was so prevalent during the latter part of the eighteenth century. — The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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