Overly zealous

Usage examples of fanatical.

Developed by the British to stop the rush of fanatical tribesmen, the bullets were vigorously defended by Sir John Ardagh against the heated attack of all except the American military delegate, Captain Crozier, whose country was about to make use of them in the Philippines.

Hood take us, Cotillion, if it was fanatical worshippers you hungered for, you should never have looked to assassins.

The rest of the day was devoted to high discourses and exalted expressions, which I uttered as solemnly as I could, and I enjoyed the sight of seeing him become more and more fanatical.

The designer of the uniform must have had an interest in a curcuma plantation, or else he was a fanatical Orangeman.

He can assure the tired old President that he can offer what Bruening could not: a government supported by Hitler and yet without the inconvenience of having the fanatical demagogue in it.

When all was said and done, it was obvious that only a small number of high army and navy officers, few high bureaucrats, no captains of the war economy, and vir-tually none of the civilian ideologues in politics, academe, and the media who helped prime the pump of racial arrogance and fanatical militarism paid for the terrible crimes that men on the front committed.

In addition to these Austrians were the fanatical Nazis whose ranks were swelling rapidly with jobseekers and jobholders attracted by success and anxious to improve their position.

Roberts considered the problem of Kelty, the technician, and the fanatical leader of the Outer City.

Gren was fanatical about secrecy, but from what Claret had said, Lambda Ral obviously blabbed far too much.

The people who had settled Omicron in the late 2300s were decent, hardworking folk from a variety of social and religious backgroundshardly the fanatical types needed to create a public relations image.

I wished that I could forget the Cassandra-like faces of Dorcas and Alison, the hints and innuendos, the fanatical eyes of old Pegger in the porch.

No prisoners: Aglaya is condemned to marry a Polish count, a fairly dubious emigrant, whose fortune and nobility are soon revealed as pure inventions, to fall into the clutches of a French Jesuit father and become a fanatical Catholic.

What hope for me of mercy at the hands of the fanatical Kulan Tith with such advisers as Matai Shang and Thurid.

In the land of its birth long-standing political rivalries, combined with a steady decline in the authority and influence exercised by the central government, are contributing to the reemergence of reactionary forces, represented by an as yet influential and fanatical priesthood, to a recrudescence of the persecution, and a multiplication of the disabilities, to which a still unemancipated Faith has been so cruelly subjected for more than a century.

Only stinging defeat and colossal losses will prove to the people that the military machine is vincible and that their fanatical leadership has taken them the way of disaster.