Word: fanaticism
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She returns to the Jew her grandfather wanted her to marry, a fanatic who wakes her to roll in the snow with him for penance. At last, dying, despairing, wondering about "the Apostates who denied God, considering the world a random combination of atoms," Akhsa rips open her pillowcase and...
An Englishman who met Casement in Chicago, during an American tour to raise funds against Britain described him as "a fanatic of the type of Mazzini ... great in the beginning of Italy's risorgimento, and so greatly mistaken in the end." His Irish American host in New York said...
I.F. Stone's Weekly is crammed with devices of simultaneity simply because there are so many dimensions to the journalist's style and achievement. But the force of personality in Jerry Bruck's crisp, clear documentary is very simple: Stone is a kind of fanatic, a crazyman--squinting out at...
Jacobs has no problem boosting his product, despite its price (sandals, shoes and boots sell for between $23.50 and $42.50 per pair); buyers constantly tout the comfort of Earth Shoes. "They are about all we wear," says Malibu Housewife Joan Lloyd. "My corkie platforms are now just taking up room...
To some, the affair might seem a bit ridiculous, but it was strong enough to survive many storms. Social critics might, and regularly did damn the high-powered car as a strangler of cities, fouler of the air and catalyst of a blighted landscape of junkyards, filling stations and hotdog...