Sample Sentences for
fanatic
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    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
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    Aunt Alexandra was fanatical on the subject of my attire.  (source)
    fanatical = overly interested
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    His eight-year-old twin boys were football fanatics, and Mark coached their team.  (source)
    fanatics = extreme fans
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    We couldn't use the phone at Lorraine's anyway because ... , and at my house my mother is a disinfectant fanatic. She would have gotten too nervous over all of us using her purified instrument.  (source)
    fanatic = a person with extreme enthusiasm for a cause -- often to a fault
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    Both were charismatic, idealistic young men beloved by their fanatical followers.†  (source)
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    Besides, these fanatics always try suicide; the pattern's familiar.  (source)
    fanatics = people motivated by extreme enthusiasm for a cause
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    Beyond her faith was a fanaticism to defend the altars of her god.  (source)
    fanaticism = extreme enthusiasm
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    He was a detached, almost fanatically organized guy who maintained detailed time-management logs and could recite endless baseball statistics.†  (source)
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    To dream of the indefinite prolongation of defunct things, and of the government of men by embalming, to restore dogmas in a bad condition, to regild shrines, to patch up cloisters, to rebless reliquaries, to refurnish superstitions, to revictual fanaticisms, to put new handles on holy water brushes and militarism, to reconstitute monasticism and militarism, to believe in the salvation of society by the multiplication of parasites, to force the past on the present,— this seems strange.†  (source)
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    What annoyed him was their fanatic sense of righteousness, their absolute certainty that they and they alone had God's ear, and every other Jew was wrong,  (source)
    fanatic = extremely enthusiastic
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    More accurately, her belief in the devil is fanatical.†  (source)
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    Bhindranwale was the leader of all the fanatics.†  (source)
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    The result is to arouse not fear and terror but bitter determination, anger and rising fanaticism.†  (source)
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