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  • A sports fanatic, he had recognized Louie's name, which Louie had given to his captors.†   (source)
  • A religious fanatic, maybe even crazy, but a murderer?†   (source)
  • His face was gaunt, seamed, fanatical.†   (source)
  • Play the fanatic in front of them, but not so much that you can't pull it off "Yes," the author agreed, and nodded.†   (source)
  • His dirty work had been carried out unknowingly by a fanatical monk and a desperate bishop.†   (source)
  • One day we were bored, indifferent, satisfied losers; the next we were rabid fanatics, stomping in the grandstand, painting our faces green and white, doing the wave as if we had been perfecting it for years.†   (source)
  • THESE SELF-RIGHTEOUS FANATICS ARE NOT 'RELIGIOUS'—THEIR HOMEY WISDOM IS NOT 'MORALITY.'†   (source)
  • Bhindranwale was the leader of all the fanatics.†   (source)
  • I couldn't decide who was more annoying, the fanatic or the cynic.†   (source)
  • Within a few years, both boys were dedicated fanatics who took their sport seriously year-round.†   (source)
  • There'd been a fanaticism about Vince that hadn't fully hit him until now And there was the way the Right Arm had treated Thomas and his friends in the van after taking them hostage at the Berg.†   (source)
  • To the European world the whole province was a barbaric frontier inhabited by a sect of fanatics who, nevertheless, were shipping out products of slowly increasing quantity and value.†   (source)
  • I'm not a fanatic Zionist, but it interests me.†   (source)
  • The wreckage in Gallery 32 had been sifted through with white gloves and whisk brooms, with fanatic care—and while the frame of The Goldfinch had been found, intact (and had been hung empty on the wall of the Mauritshuis, in the Hague, "as a reminder of the irreplaceable loss of our cultural patrimony"), no confirmed fragment of the painting itself, no splinter or antique nail fragment or chip of its distinctive lead-tin pigment had been found.†   (source)
  • It's a miracle, actually, that a bunch of fanatical Invalids decided to let loose a stampede at the exact moment I was failing the most important test of my life.†   (source)
  • One of the guys in my unit was a fanatic about jazz.†   (source)
  • Along the way, they began encountering the sort of fanatical insurgency that would characterize the war after Baghdad fell.†   (source)
  • She treated her brushes with fanatical routine, washing them in spring water, not tap, so that chlorine would not damage them.†   (source)
  • Problem: Why are they so fanatical about maintaining the same Three Score and Ten population that the lost dropship colony started with?†   (source)
  • His eight-year-old twin boys were football fanatics, and Mark coached their team.†   (source)
  • Let's face it, al Qaeda means "the base," and in return for the Saudi fanatic bin Laden's money, the Taliban made it all possible.†   (source)
  • Even safety Fanatics don't bother with a helmet when they're wearing one of these babies.†   (source)
  • Ads would link the company's french fries "to the excitement and fanaticism people feel about the NBA."†   (source)
  • When it came to observing sports, Dad was a baseball fanatic, but when it came to playing, he loved to shoot hoops.†   (source)
  • Her hair is a fanatical blond mop, a particular tawny hue that used to be called dirty blond.†   (source)
  • The result is to arouse not fear and terror but bitter determination, anger and rising fanaticism.†   (source)
  • Ordinarily, such a display would have made me nervous, but since Trebon was a mining town, I guessed it showed civic pride more than fanatic piety.†   (source)
  • "I would support any psychiatrist who will support me," he says without interrupting his fanatical cleanup.†   (source)
  • My parents were fanatics about credit cards—used only for special purposes, paid off every month.†   (source)
  • In his pursuit of what I have called the ghost of rationality he was a fanatic hunter.†   (source)
  • One of them was a religious fanatic who founded his own secret sect and fathered four sons, one of whom became a schoolmaster known for the precision of his justice and the control in his violence.†   (source)
  • He was always quoting what she said about the relationship between a man and a woman, and I knew Mrs. Willard was a real fanatic about virginity for men and women both.†   (source)
  • In 1924, now seventeen, Richard was a fanatical nationalist and anti Semite.†   (source)
  • Due to the Whites' near-fanatical fundamentalist religious beliefs, Mrs. White had no friends to see her through her period of bereavement.†   (source)
  • These were Shiite Moslems, still glorying in the success of the revolution, clad in the self-righteous robes of fanaticism.†   (source)
  • She's become a checkers fanatic.†   (source)
  • Prettier, gift-wrapped in 40ish self-esteem, a wannabe writer and workout fanatic, sweating ice.†   (source)
  • He was kind of fanatical, you might say.†   (source)
  • They let her through because they were aware of the fanaticism of mothers, who sent their daughters to the bedrooms of the most famous warriors, according to what they said, to improve the breed.†   (source)
  • Fanatic.†   (source)
  • I learned that she was a world traveler, a classic eco-peacenik intellectual, a fitness fanatic and yoga expert, and a devout Buddhist possessed of a wry sense of humor, all incredibly welcome attributes to encounter in a fellow prisoner.†   (source)
  • Her breath caught, and it was impossible not to see the fanatical gleam in her eyes.†   (source)
  • While waiting for instructions from Moscow, Petchkin had checked up on Tait and found him to be, though a religious fanatic, an efficient and honorable physician, one of the best in government service.†   (source)
  • In the lamplight, Mortenson saw the man's eyes were fiercely blue, and rimmed with surma, the black pigment worn by the most devout, some would say fanatical, graduates of the fundamentalist madrassas.†   (source)
  • That, after all, was what "gung ho" meant: not mindless fanaticism, but constant teamwork and brotherhood.†   (source)
  • What if Bird's religiousness wasn't just a passing phase but a permanent state of fanaticism?†   (source)
  • A man whose claim to fame is his sister-in-law imposing fanatic "moral order" campaigns?†   (source)
  • They would not know that he had become, finally, not a saint, but only a …. fanatic.†   (source)
  • They were afraid of other people's curses and Father Restrepo's fanaticism.†   (source)
  • Hungry Joe ate voraciously, gnawed incessantly at the tips of his fingers, stammered, choked, itched, sweated, salivated, and sprang from spot to spot fanatically with an intricate black camera with which he was always trying to take pictures of naked girls.†   (source)
  • "I just want to be left alone to live my life, but the psycho fanatics won't let that happen.†   (source)
  • There was no way she was going to be able to convince Amatis that the Lightwoods she'd known fifteen years ago no longer existed, that Robert and Maryse weren't blindly loyal fanatics anymore.†   (source)
  • My mother, who is serious and businesslike about most things, is an absolute fanatic about the holidays.†   (source)
  • Viva Monterrey US baseball fanatics recently fell in love.†   (source)
  • That Hambro, I thought, is he a fanatic teacher!†   (source)
  • You think Rockman's involved with a fanatic splinter group like that?"†   (source)
  • It would have been a hellish life if her momma and daddy had been the hard, religious fanatics who peopled that part of the world back then, a humorless bunch who prayed and plowed and didn't do much else, if you don't count speaking in tongues or handling snakes, the Holy Spirit coursing through their bodies like antivenin laced with Epsom salts.†   (source)
  • No matter how hard he tried-not fanatically but at least assiduously-to keep himself in reasonably good shape, he was now fifty and his body knew it.†   (source)
  • They make fine work of me—fanatic, bigot, perfect cypher, not one word of the language, awkward figure, uncouth dress, no address, no character, cunning hardheaded attorney.†   (source)
  • Mr. Stanley was a sincere man, uncommonly gentle for a Puritan and no fanatic, but still his Sunday had been a severe Sabbath and his church had been a cheerless place, innocent of lace or polished brass and stinting even in the beauty of its prayers.†   (source)
  • We're more acceptable when we're viewed as fanatics, neatly labeled and confined to a box.†   (source)
  • Holy men, ascetics, fanatics, sorcerers, dragon-slayers, demonhunters …. there were many tales about them.†   (source)
  • That kind of fanaticism is scary, and as I watched the towers crumble and saw reports of attacks in Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania, I knew we were at war, and not a war of our choosing.†   (source)
  • Did I mention that Scott's a fanatic, honey?†   (source)
  • Both were charismatic, idealistic young men beloved by their fanatical followers.†   (source)
  • Her religious belief is fanatical.†   (source)
  • Years ago, he had wondered with contemptuous incredulity about the fanatical sects that appeared among men in the dark corners of history, the sects who believed that man was trapped in a malevolent universe ruled by evil for the sole purpose of his torture.†   (source)
  • Only vulgarians and Methodists watch football games with such fanaticism.†   (source)
  • When put to the test, Holabird smugly said, his "expert" testimony would easily be exposed as the ravings of a fanatical lover of negroes.†   (source)
  • The pursuit of recognition for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the quest for personal independence form the traditional themes of the Jewish people, of which I am a member.†   (source)
  • Earlier, the news stations run competing evening stories profiling Eduardo, and in the hastily set up video room we watch him painted as an overly ambitious student who was treated like a son by the councilman: he worked like a religious fanatic for the man, who in turn, according to the reporter, was steadily building an "empire" from his "ethnic base" in northern Queens.†   (source)
  • I know, it probably sounds like I'm becoming a real fanatic religious freak, which I am not.†   (source)
  • "The way you winked," Ludovico said accusingly, "the way you winked at me was just like a religious fanatic."†   (source)
  • What is remarkable about this last quotation is that it came not from a Yankee fanatic but from Percival Drayton, a native of South Carolina and scion of a prominent planter family, whose brother Thomas Drayton became a Confederate general.†   (source)
  • Sometimes she talked about Old John Brown, the man with the hawk's face and the white beard, and the fanatic's eyes, cold and hard as granite.†   (source)
  • As a rule, the men in the family were fanatic about keeping their hair short.†   (source)
  • Fanatically devoted to his every wish, they would (in fact, severalhad) gladly die for him.†   (source)
  • But he was one of Hancock's fanatics.†   (source)
  • Jack is a top student and a highly competitive athlete whose goal is to play professional baseball, and he works at it with the intensity of a fanatic.†   (source)
  • A regiment of decorated war veterans from the area trooped by, including several men with long beards and shriveled bodies who claimed to have served with both the honorable Bobby Lee and the fanatically pious Stonewall Jackson.†   (source)
  • Unless necessary—she's no fanatic.†   (source)
  • In a way, I suppose you could say it's terribly fanatical, but in a way it isn't.†   (source)
  • At the last moment, they would find themselves in combat with the French army, disciplined, well-armed, and fanatically loyal to Napoleon.†   (source)
  • Not a dream, he thought, nothing demented or unconscious or fanatic about it.†   (source)
  • Suppose, for example, that one of your nations, led by some fanatical ruler, tried to revolt against me.†   (source)
  • Not the fanatic our more left-leaning friends over in the Birch Society chose to martyrize.†   (source)
  • They were both very religious Catholics, so I was brought up very devout and went to Mass always and church school, but I don't mean I was, you know, fanatic, nut.†   (source)
  • Fanaticism?†   (source)
  • The silence is tense It is suddenly broken by a fanatic old WOMAN, who shoves her face close to BRADY'S and shrieks.†   (source)
  • He was not simply indifferent to food, he was fanatically indifferent.†   (source)
  • You're a fanatic, Alec, I know you are, but I don't know what about.†   (source)
  • Kornakov was the assistant public prosecutor at the Moscow central court who had made a fanatical speech at the trial of the group of railway men which had included Tiverzin.†   (source)
  • Strangely enough, although he had the appearance, especially in his later days, of a fanatic, he was a man of infinite charm and personality.†   (source)
  • Powerhouse is not a show-off like the Harlem boys, not drunk, not crazyhe's in a trance; he's a person of joy, a fanatic.†   (source)
  • But that summer I saw the strangest combinations: large, respectable, churchly matrons standing on the stoops or the corners with their hair tied up, together with a girl in sleazy satin whose face bore the marks of gin and the razor, or heavy-set, abrupt, no-nonsenseolder men, in company with the most disreputable and fanatical "race" men, or these same "race" men with the sharpies, or these sharpies with the churchly women.†   (source)
  • He made his orisons in fanatical multiples of three and nine.†   (source)
  • The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.   (source)
  • He's fanatic about sports.
  • However much in earnest he might be, he had nothing of the single-mindedness that belongs to a fanatic.   (source)
    fanatic = someone motivated by extreme enthusiasm for a cause
  • Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph.   (source)
  • This peculiar linking-together of opposites — knowledge with ignorance, cynicism with fanaticism-is one of the chief distinguishing marks of Oceanic society.   (source)
    fanaticism = extreme enthusiasm
  • The eyeless creature at the other table swallowed it fanatically, passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grammes.   (source)
    fanatically = with extreme enthusiasm
  • Hostile bioforms, toxin attacks, fanatics.†   (source)
  • SARDAUKAR: the soldier-fanatics of the Padishah Emperor.†   (source)
  • They blamed it on the Islamic fanatics, at the time.†   (source)
  • The people we were fighting in Iraq, after Sad-dam's army fled or was defeated, were fanatics.†   (source)
  • This was a village full of Islamic fanatics who wanted only to see dead Americans.†   (source)
  • Those guys are evil, murderous religious fanatics, each one of them with an AK-47 and a blood-lust.†   (source)
  • The fanatics we fought valued nothing but their twisted interpretation of religion.†   (source)
  • 'Fanatics from the Kuomintang,' said David, his voice flat and cold.†   (source)
  • My son was a sacrifice, an example to others who opposed the fanatics.†   (source)
  • So I'm telling you, watch out for those fanatics.†   (source)
  • Old Tony doesn't like fanatics, that's all.†   (source)
  • We have been determined not to be diverted from our central concerns by mere irritants and fanatics.†   (source)
  • Terrorists, fanatics, that was all I got.†   (source)
  • Do you think anyone can protect me from these fanatics?†   (source)
  • He had not uttered a word to anyone about his experiences in Paris several years earlier, but Grail fanatics had followed the media coverage closely, some connecting the dots and believing Langdon was now privy to secret information regarding the Holy Grail—perhaps even its location.†   (source)
  • "Oh," Langdon said, wondering if the Hubble-fanatics in the Harvard Astronomy Department ever mentioned Lemaitre in their lectures.†   (source)
  • Things escalated after a cell of crazed anti-Happicuppa fanatics bombed the Lincoln Memorial, killing five visiting Japanese schoolkids that were part of a Tour of Democracy.†   (source)
  • It was the first time I had heard him recite poetry: "Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave A paradise for a sect, the savage too From forth the loftiest fashion of his sleep Guesses at Heaven; pity these have not Traced upon vellum or wild Indian leaf The shadows of melodious utterance.†   (source)
  • Here in the First World, everyone has already been vaccinated, and we don't let religious fanatics come up and poke needles into us.†   (source)
  • With a self-accusing bitterness, he faced the thought of the soldier-fanatics and the Imperial treachery they represented.†   (source)
  • She works in the galley of one of the big Russian ships, hauling vats of cooked fish stew out to the buffet line, ladling it out into bowls, shoving it across the counter at an unending line consisting of religious fanatics, religious fanatics, and more religious fanatics.†   (source)
  • But the soldier fanatics nonetheless.†   (source)
  • In August 1998 Islamic fanatics bombed the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing more than 225 people.†   (source)
  • There was a black banner on the floor, the kind the fanatics liked to show on their videos when beheading Westerners.†   (source)
  • But there are undercurrents of hatred all over the Arab world, and we knew there were many sympathizers with the Muslim extremist fanatics of the Taliban and al Qaeda.†   (source)
  • His mind focused on the dread Imperial troops, the killers without mercy, the soldier fanatics of the Padishah Emperor.†   (source)
  • The Army analyzed the terrorist groups in the city and decided there were three different categories: hard-core Islamist fanatics, associated with alQaeda and similar groups; locals who were a little less fanatic though they still wanted to kill Americans; and opportunistic criminal gangs who were basically trying to make a living off the chaos.†   (source)
  • When the Harkonnens and the soldier-fanatics of the Padishah Emperor reoccupied Arrakis, killing Paul's father and most of the Atreides troops, Paul and his mother disappeared.†   (source)
  • It occurred to both Gulab and me that the word revenge might not be far from the curled lips of these hate-filled Muslim fanatics and that I might be the most convenient target.†   (source)
  • , we'd send the helicopters up there to watch these bearded fanatics squirting over the border into Afghanistan, and then we'd round them up, the helos driving them like sheepdogs, watching them run for their lives, straight toward us and the rest of the waiting U.S. troops for capture and interrogation.†   (source)
  • The speculation was Communist fanatics.†   (source)
  • Present Carlos with a client as rich and as powerful as our current Medusa and it's irresistible to him-he's got the respect of the international big boys, not just the crud of the world, the fanatics of the left and right.†   (source)
  • As a result, he's got Tappan and the rest of those mad religious fanatics trying to whip up the country into some sort of frenzy over slavery.†   (source)
  • "They were fanatics," she explained.†   (source)
  • Then as soon as they graduate they become crazed fanatics about the place, lunatic alumni who think the place was designed by God on the first day he rested.†   (source)
  • Lenny's teenage fanatics were here, kids from Brooklyn and Queens who did his bits word for word, memorizing off his albums but more religiously from the rare tapes slyly recorded by traffickers in contraband goods.†   (source)
  • 'In this latter group,' broke in McAllister, 'are the leaders of rival triads Sheng doesn't trust, that the fanatics of the Kuomintang don't trust.†   (source)
  • Fanatics?†   (source)
  • Fanatics are scary, Max.†   (source)
  • He had penetrated that deadly sanctuary, crippled a small fleet of trucks and automobiles by plunging the blade of his knife into every tire, then proceeded to take out each patrol in the Jing Shan forest until he found the torch-lit clearing that held a swaggering maniac and his brigade of fanatics.†   (source)
  • They've gone down deep in high places, and they're probably spreading, but they're still fanatics, a lunatic fringe.†   (source)
  • Suffice it to say that as our enemies employ the services of such as the PLO and the Red Armies, the Ayatollah's fanatics and Baader Meinhof, we have mounted our own brigades.†   (source)
  • Fanatics, Fascists.†   (source)
  • The fanatics and extremists and even those conscientiously devoted to hard and fast principles are always disappointed at the failure of their Government to rush to implement all of their principles and to denounce those of their opponents.†   (source)
  • This was a junta of Calvinist fanatics who felt that the Estates-General, controlled by the privileged classes, no longer represented the skilled workers, had lost touch entirely with the people.†   (source)
  • "Two more for Azkaban tonight," said Snape, his eyes now gleaming fanatically.†   (source)
  • I mouthed to the woman beside me; safe enough, a question like that, to all but a fanatic.†   (source)
  • Henrik is a bit of a conspiracy fanatic.†   (source)
  • It was Phaedrus' lack of faith in reason that made him such a fanatic teacher.†   (source)
  • The young ones are often the most dangerous, the most fanatical, the jumpiest with their guns.†   (source)
  • And too much envy and fanaticism and bad, faith.†   (source)
  • "If Richard personified the family's dark, fanatical side, Gottfried embodied the indolent one.†   (source)
  • He passionately and fanatically knew it.†   (source)
  • He was religiously faithful, but he wasn't a fanatic like the Orthos.†   (source)
  • He on the other hand felt fanatically obliged to do something about it.†   (source)
  • Former KGB general turned religious fanatic.†   (source)
  • No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow.†   (source)
  • They were fanatical, but it wasn't just religion that was driving them.†   (source)
  • His lack of faith in reason was why he was so fanatically dedicated to it.†   (source)
  • A Fremen fanatic, a religious adventurer.†   (source)
  • A term of scorn in the Imperium, meaning any "wild" person given to fanatical prediction.†   (source)
  • It was my first close-up encounter with a fanatical Taliban fighter.†   (source)
  • Such people would be easy to imbue with fervor and fanaticism.†   (source)
  • JIHAD: a religious crusade; fanatical crusade.†   (source)
  • Matthias cried, his eyes burning with a fanatic light.†   (source)
  • But he was fanatically loyal, and he had a car.†   (source)
  • Fanatical in their desire to slay any whose name had been entered in their Grey Book.†   (source)
  • The test subjects are getting more fanatical in their odd little religious cult by the day.†   (source)
  • His eyes are like that too, a piercing, slightly fanatical blue.†   (source)
  • In the past couple of years, Frank had become fanatical about the lawn.†   (source)
  • He liked to compete, but he didn't stand out, at least not as a gun fanatic.†   (source)
  • Or fanatical and irrational and victim-wishful.†   (source)
  • They were fanatical fundamentalists, he explained.†   (source)
  • Booth has now been shot by a man very much like himself: a rebellious fanatic.†   (source)
  • Well, maybe Momma was a fanatic, a freak, but at least she was predictable.†   (source)
  • His voice rang with a fanatic's passion.†   (source)
  • Not a fanatic, a man trying to do his duty.†   (source)
  • More accurately, her belief in the devil is fanatical.†   (source)
  • I thought you were a health-food fanatic.†   (source)
  • But his faith is almost fanatical, causing him to lose focus on fighting communism.†   (source)
  • I saw it as the natural consequence of living under the government of a fanatical madman.†   (source)
  • I covered my ears with my hands, but the fanatical roar would not abate.†   (source)
  • The knife found its mark and the man from Medusa ripped open the fanatic's chest.†   (source)
  • Brahma, you forget that Nirriti is a fanatic, a madman.†   (source)
  • All Her training, Her special bent, is to avoid fanaticism always, find practical answers.†   (source)
  • His fanaticism was not an imitation but was his own, a natural consequence of all his previous life.†   (source)
  • You're a fanatic who doesn't want to convert people, and that's a dangerous thing.†   (source)
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