How To Use Fanaticism In A Sentence

The family was liberal and religious: at home her mother had a kosher kitchen and the Jewish holidays were observed without any taint of fanaticism; her father was a carpenter and a shul yid (a Jew who went to the synagogue) whose fine voice led to his being a “baaltfile” (precentor). Vele Rabinowitz Zabludowsky.
In itself, the letter will not stop fanaticism or allay age-old suspicions. Times, Sunday Times
Religion is vulnerable to religious fanaticism and political extremism-history is full of religious oppression, violence, terrorism and wars. Dr T.P.Chia
If any one hated papistry Mrs. Bolton did so; but from a similar action of religious fanaticism she had fallen into worse that papistical self-persecution. John Caldigate
Today's enemy, however, is not a philosophy that condemned millions, but an implacable, unappeasable, pitiless fanaticism that exists on the very fringes of humanity.

In itself, the letter will not stop fanaticism or allay age-old suspicions. Times, Sunday Times
Religion is vulnerable to religious fanaticism and political extremism-history is full of religious oppression, violence, terrorism and wars. Dr T.P.Chia
People are killing each other because of bigotry, fanaticism and prejudice, so why are we adding to the burden of intolerance?
The author's approach is inspired by concepts of morality and reason as well as faith, but they are remote from the kind of applied fanaticism that goes with the psychology of terrorism.
#28 – The “righteous right” will never wake up because it would mean that they’d see their own level of hypocrisy in it all…..just like Dubya….it’s a form of madness….in this case, religious zealotism or fanaticism. Think Progress » Gay marriage ban dropped.
That moral fibre will defeat the fanaticism of these terrorists and their supporters.
Harold's presumptuous guilt in rejection, the fiery fanaticism of all enlisted under the gonfanon of the Church. Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12
But eventually he was forced to concede that religious and regional fanaticism threatened to overwhelm his reforms.
Rampant fanaticism and tawdry, insolent antics only hurt the feminist cause.
Her courage is lauded, but as part of her religious fanaticism. The Times Literary Supplement
Extremism and fanaticism - religious or secular - are the fountain of injustice and immorality. Dr T.P.Chia
If no skyborn messenger, heaven looking through his eyes; then neither is it a chimera with his systems, crotchets, cants, fanaticisms, and last infirmity of noble minds, full of misery, unrest and ill-will; but a substantial, peaceable, terrestrial man. Paras. 25-49
Korais was born in Smyrna (1748 – 1833) to a mercantile family, but fled to Montpelier, France, in 1782, in an effort to escape the '... conservatism, formalism, and religious fanaticism of the Ottomans' (Velios, 1998: 10). Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
Instead of godless communists controlling tank battalions, the new enemy was a shadowy collection of individuals motivated by religious fanaticism who saw their actions as the ticket to heaven.
I see a strong push across the planet toward several self-destructive avenues: racism, jingoism, religious fanaticism and monopolism are all roads to separation and alienation. Archive 2005-06-01
My statue of Jesus baring his bleeding heart has everything to do with kitsch and nothing to do with religious fanaticism.
A young Winston Churchill wrote his first book, The Story of the Malakand Field Force, about his experiences fighting those tribes, whom he described as possessed of a “wild and merciless fanaticism.” The Longest War
Still, fanaticism doesn't strike a chord with the majority of the region's Muslims.
What arouses his fanaticism and prompts his excesses is the contemptuous indifference with which his advances are met. The Times Literary Supplement
Animalism had yieded to fanaticism and the bold , roving eye now gleamed with a ferocious righteousness.
What arouses his fanaticism and prompts his excesses is the contemptuous indifference with which his advances are met. The Times Literary Supplement
The traditional method of combating intuitionalism from the time of John Locke to that of Herbert Spencer has been to present the reader with a list of cruel and abominable savage customs, ridiculous superstitions, acts of religious fanaticism and intolerance, which have all alike seemed self-evidently good and right to the peoples or individuals who have practised them. Human Traits and their Social Significance
But eventually he was forced to concede that religious and regional fanaticism threatened to overwhelm his reforms.
But the themes remain the same: oil, corruption and religious fanaticism. The Times Literary Supplement
Nana's extreme love for order sort of explains my mom's fanaticism with cleanliness.
a wide outlook will help us to avoid exaggerations, preciosities, and fanaticisms. Nature Mysticism
There seems to be a fanaticism on the part of those who legislate, for how come there is no variation of punishment?
Living proof that RNC prominence is fading and the ovine followers are dwindling in number since savvy people are beginning to see the light instead of being allowed to be smitten by blind fanaticism. Poll: New Jersey gubernatorial race tightens up
Most notable to European eyes at this time was their religious fanaticism and willingness to seek martyrdom through death in battle.
But this stringency, which is called positivism when the conditions of welfare are understood, becomes fanaticism when they are misrepresented. The Life of Reason
But eventually he was forced to concede that religious and regional fanaticism threatened to overwhelm his reforms.
None could pierce the future; perhaps none dared to contemplate it: the wild rage of fanaticism and hate, friend grappling with friend, brother with brother, father with son; altars profaned, hearthstones made desolate; the robes of Justice herself bedrenched with murder. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863
The present writer, too, can testify to the fanaticism from discussions at that time with diplomats in London and overseas.
Drawing a straight line from the Peasant Wars to Bolshevism, this view of fanaticism is today invoked by the West in order to demonize and psychologize any non-liberal politics. Archive 2009-08-01
Rules and regulations take a backseat during this fortnight of imbecile fanaticism.
To Struan, the bishop represented all that he despised in the Catholics — the dogmatic fanaticism of self-castrated, power-seeking men who sucked riches from the poor in the name of a Catholic God, drop by bloody drop, and from the drops built mighty cathedrals to the glory of their version of Divinity, who had idolatrously set up a man in Rome as Pope and made the man an infallible arbiter of other men. Tai-Pan
Religion is vulnerable to religious fanaticism and political extremism-history is full of religious oppression, violence, terrorism and wars. Dr T.P.Chia
Once this infinity attaches to even the most trivial or dissolute of ordinary passions it lends the full force and import of freedom to it, fueling an obsessive and insatiable fanaticism.
prophesyings," or the assemblies of the zealots in private houses, which, she apprehended, had become so many academies of fanaticism; and for this offence she had, by an order of the star chamber, sequestered him from his archiepiscopal function, and confined him to his own house. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I.
The bombing symbolizes the worst of religious fanaticism .
They said that they and others had bayoneted prisoners tied to stakes not out of blind fanaticism, but failing to do so would have meant a shame on their manhood, a criterion defined by the group.
However much a teacher may be attracted towards any profession or any particular set of ideas, he must so develop desirelessness that while he creates in his pupils an enthusiasm for principles, he shall not cramp them within the limits of any particular application of the principles, or allow their generous impulses -- unbalanced by experience -- to grow into narrow fanaticism. Education as Service
Revolutionary messianism, fanaticism, is the only way to disrupt one's embedment in a system whose hegemony is so thoroughly entrenched.
Extremism and fanaticism - religious or secular - are the fountain of injustice and immorality. Dr T.P.Chia
The worst biological disaster in the history of mankind resulted in total panic which fuelled religious fanaticism. The Sun
Religious fanaticism or extremism is the worst religion that creates hatred, violence, immorality, injustice and even war. Dr T.P.Chia
Destruction was not an act of religious fanaticism but an act to show that the ruler was unable to protect the temple of his own deity and so lost all legitimacy to rule.
I think religious fanaticism is extremely unhealthy and it seems Mel Gibson is guilty of that.
Does this not show mankind's stupidity and the sheer brainless fanaticism of religion? The Sun
Some vague sense of this was stirring the dying embers for the proletary as he was climbing the hill to the street of quiet entrances; but he pushed the saving thought aside and chose to call it fanaticism. The Price
Religion is vulnerable to religious fanaticism and political extremism-history is full of religious oppression, violence, terrorism and wars. Dr T.P.Chia
At the same time he persuaded the Committee to circularize popular societies warning them not to fan superstition and fanaticism by persecution.
That's why religious fanaticism is still so dangerous. Times, Sunday Times
It peeps out, even in the most serious passages, in a kind of demure rebellion against the fanaticism of his remorseless intelligence. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860
And the religious fanaticism that Morier tweaked also echoes down the years: A character named Nadan who wants to become Tehran's religious leader, Morier writes, has no peer "either as a zealous practiser of the ordinances of his religion, or a persecutor of those who might be its enemies. Five Best
To them, his baptism by immersion smacked of the fanaticism that revival often seems to bring.
At the end of the day, of course, it is fanaticism, not literature, that pulls the trigger.
It would be more accurate to say that the turn against fanaticism is an unintended consequence of the unanticipated difficulties of managing postliberation Iraq -- in other words, it's something that's gone right after something else went wrong. The Limits of Fanaticism
In itself, the letter will not stop fanaticism or allay age-old suspicions. Times, Sunday Times
Lucy the fanaticism of some of her own communion, while she intimated, rather than expressed, horror at the latitudinarian principles which she had been taught to think connected with the prelatical form of church government. The Bride of Lammermoor
Lucy the fanaticism of some of her own communion, while she intimated, rather than expressed, horror at the latitudinarian principles which she had been taught to think connected with the prelatical form of church government. The Bride of Lammermoor
Its fire, intellectual verve and occasional fanaticism are almost unique in British journalism.
We haven't experienced the level of fanaticism that's shown in the film.
In a commentary for Zmag he not only skewers the fanaticism and delusion of the right, but the failure of the supposedly liberal media.
One way to avoid any kind of sectarian essentializing leading to religious fanaticism is to read these texts in comparative and inclusive ways.
Thus the world is fated to see a steady increase in despotism, warfare, civil strife, impoverishment, fanaticism and genocide. Stromata Blog:
There were very few churches in those times of religious fanaticism which did not proclaim themselves to be the only true church. Christianity Today
His political views have a savour of fanaticism.
A thousand questions about fanaticism will go for ever unanswered.
The philtres of romance are brewed to free us from this unsatisfying life that is calendared by fiscal years, and to contrive a less disastrous elusion of our own personalities than many seek dispersedly in drink and drugs and lust and fanaticism, and sometimes in death. Beyond Life
Knox, safe in Frankfurt with the ‘Marian exiles’, lashed The Monstrous Regiment [rule] of Women and hymned the martyrs to Mary Tudor's fanaticism.
Deep anxiety may cause obsessive behaviour, fanaticism or a strict adherence to religion for the wrong reasons.
Philosophy still exhibits, in deference to popular prejudice and fanaticism, what the great French maximist defined as 'the homage that vice pays to virtue.' An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles
When the liberal truth is forgotten, we see the horrors of nationalist dictatorship, fascism, communism, cult fanaticism, terrorism and the many savageries that have defined all too much in the modern era. Literature and the Search for Liberty
The Church in its early days went fierce and fast with any warhorse; yet it is utterly unhistoric to say that she merely went mad along one idea, like a vulgar fanaticism.
The remarkable increase in apocalyptic fanaticism since the eighteenth century is connected with the universal emergence of historical consciousness that took place at that time; this in turn led to numerous conceptions of an eschatologically oriented salvationist theology; in the eighteenth century, for example, in ESCHATOLOGY
We will, however, help others renounce fanaticism and narrowness through and engaging in compassionate dialogue.
As our society places ever-increasing value on emotional maturity, progressives should expect social conservatives to respond with mounting cruelty and fanaticism.
The integration of a drop of water to drop, also gentle fanaticism.
Religious fanaticism or extremism is the worst religion that creates hatred, violence, immorality, injustice and even war. Dr T.P.Chia
He broke an unwritten rule for Aberdeen players in being unabashed about his fanaticism for Celtic during his Dumbarton upbringing.
Like many events sketched repeatedly in thumbnail fashion, the witch trials have become a caricature, a short-hand reference for fanaticism and the darker passages of America's colonial history. The Heretic's Daughter: Summary and book reviews of The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent.
As an atheist I'm getting sick of the fanaticism of these degenerates.
I have always considered it a great impoverishment of narrative art when, in our secular fanaticism, we banish religion or philosophy to escape from the deep existential questions.
What makes no sense to me is how this religious fanaticism is supposed to win a national majority next year. Times, Sunday Times
The story provides a self-commentary on the ridiculousness of sports fanaticism.
The crusades are remembered for an appalling degree of fanaticism and violence that left a legacy of hatred that persists to this day. Times, Sunday Times
If the fanatics who are preoccupied day in and day out with their salvation were healthy, virtuous, and wise, the Laodiceanism of the ordinary man might be regarded as a deplorable shortcoming; but, as a matter of fact, no more frightful misfortune could threaten us than a general spread of fanaticism. Getting Married
Of one thing we may be sure, that the memory of his pure and noble life, untouched by worldliness, unsoured by fanaticism, will endure.
God that they became involved in ignorant fanaticism and blameworthy practices such as insurgence and sedition. The Secret of Divine Civilization
There is no need for racism, jingoism, fanaticism or monopolism. Archive 2005-06-01
Religion is vulnerable to religious fanaticism and political extremism-history is full of religious oppression, violence, terrorism and wars. Dr T.P.Chia
Today's enemy, however, is not a philosophy that condemned millions, but an implacable, unappeasable, pitiless fanaticism that exists on the very fringes of humanity.
Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more. Clarence Darrow
But the tsunami created by Jerry's fans serves to reinforce the fanaticism over the meet - and - greet party.
Religious fanaticism or extremism is the worst religion that creates hatred, violence, immorality, injustice and even war. Dr T.P.Chia
He harks back to Adam Smith, who wrote that competition among faiths would make religion ‘free from every mixture of absurdity, imposture, or fanaticism.’
That moral fibre will defeat the fanaticism of these terrorists and their supporters.
What arouses his fanaticism and prompts his excesses is the contemptuous indifference with which his advances are met. The Times Literary Supplement
The situation is not a battle between religion and non-religion, but as the revolutionary Iranian sociologist Ali Shariati once suggested, a struggle between two different forms of religion: one of 'legitimation' and one of 'revolution'; the struggle of a religion of freedom and liberty against a religion of despotism, fanaticism and violence; a religion of oppressors against that of the oppressed. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
I am really quite disturbed by the fanaticism and intolerance shown by these ill-bred youths.
What sort of fanaticism has been at work here, Mrs. Randolph?" the Captain enquired. Melbourne House
The training camps bombard them with religious fanaticism. The Sun
Tony Blair was warned six years ago that religious fanaticism would become a serious threat to UK security, it has been revealed.
While others are feasting their fruitful imaginations with the idle and visionary dreams of fanaticism; with a kind of chimerical heaven of which they know _nothing_, as to its certainty: this man is in heaven already: dwelling in love, he 'dwelleth in God, and God in him.' A Series of Letters in Defence of Divine Revelation
Chekhov's childhood was overshadowed by his father's tyranny and religious fanaticism.
To argue that we are powerless to change the political environment in the face of irrational fanaticism is a perverse form of defeatism.
The prospects are for more destruction, fanaticism, violence and hatred.
Consensual torture fetishism is entirely different than the hideous Cheney fanaticism the GOP finds itself mired in every Monday night with their hero Jack Bauer. Stop The Torture | ATTACKERMAN
Superstition, cruelty, religious fanaticism, prejudice and medieval dogmatism were all anathema to a wit like Voltaire.
Attachment to losing is taken to a level of religious fanaticism by the faithful.
The bombing symbolizes the worst of religious fanaticism .
Islam has struck at the roots of fanaticism.
His numerous and amusing errors are such as characterise the fanaticism that would refute The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur
But this stringency, which is called positivism when the conditions of welfare are understood, becomes fanaticism when they are misrepresented. The Life of Reason

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