Word: fanaticize
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The story's allegorical heroine is an intense, average-looking girl named Mary, daughter of a hard-bitten New England religious fanatic. A literal believer in Christ's Second Coming, in college Mary loses her faith because of a sociology professor, finds college boys a miserable substitute. Likewise...
The description of Europe's greatest previous secret policeman-Napoleon's Minister of Police Joseph Fouché-as a "cold, selfish, remorseless fanatic" fits Policeman Himmler too. Of all the Nazi leaders, he is the most uncompromising, the least likely to show mercy or kindness. He is also...
"I remember now," Reinhold Faust explained last week. "The rich man question was up at that time. I was fanatic enough to do that thing. I wanted only to scare people. ... I am just a peaceful old man now."
Family Portrait '(by Lenore Coffee & William Joyce Cowen; produced by Cheryl Crawford) tells, colloquially, of the family of Jesus during the Time when He (who never appears in the play) was preaching away from Nazareth. Theme of the play is Jesus' own saying: "A prophet is not without...
On the other hand, Mr. Hutton's keen perception of what will happen once war starts marks his work as a highly plausible piece of political prophecy. More than this, the keen appreciation of the highly unstable situation created in Central Europe by a power-crazed Fanatic makes Survey after...