Word: zealots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been vilified for leveraging the power of her marriage, was extolled for having handled with grace its public ruin and so finds herself loved for reasons she hates. Ken Starr, who was once viewed as too moderate to beat Oliver North in a Senate race, was recast as a zealot who twisted the law into a vendetta; he finds himself hated for reasons he can't understand...
...many of us brought up in the secular tradition of the United States, any public figure who links policy with faith is at best a fundamentalist, at worst a zealot. But politicians are well aware of the fact that privately Americans believe in God and have more "faith" than their counterparts throughout most of the West. Such conflict between public and private puts politicians between a rock and a hard place...
...incomprehensible, such as the character of Elise Kraft. The climax has potential, but ends up as a typical action stand-off with few deviations. Bruce Willis seems confused, as his character initially warns the government against an army invasion; yet moments later, he has morphed into a power-hungry zealot, relentlessly pursuing all those he views as enemies of the state, Hubbard included. The Siege has its thrills and suspenses, and its big name cast shouldn't fail to lure the crowds, but don't expect much more than a typical action flick with a twist of modern-day relevance...
...Times's designated anthropologist to the Bible Belt, "some critics find it revealing that his 1980 law-review article 'Combatting Official Corruption by All Available Means' began with an Old Testament quotation." The horror! By that standard Martin Luther King was not just a fanatic but a raving zealot. (And what shall we do with the first line of Moby Dick...
Blumenthal called Starr's inquiry the "apocalyptic assault of a zealot." Characterizing Starr as an "inquisitor of unlimited, unchecked power," he cited Starr's "ideological and financial" ties to conservatives as driving motivation for an "attempt to destroy this presidency...