And again, when of moonlight nights, on waking, I beheld her figure, white and conspicuous in its night-dress, kneeling upright in bed, and praying like some Catholic or Methodist enthusiast—some precocious fanatic or untimely saint—I scarcely know what thoughts I had; but they ran risk of being hardly more rational and healthy than that child's mind must have been.
They little knew that sixteen days afterwards a frightful crime would be committed in Washington, and that on Good Friday Abraham Lincoln would fall by the hand of a fanatic.
Strickland had the directness of the fanatic and the ferocity of the apostle.
Jobs's dietary habits became even more obsessive when he read Mucusless Diet Healing System by Arnold Ehret, an early twentieth-century German-born nutrition fanatic.
Yet I have found that serious entrepreneurs usually go way beyond these platitudes in their actions and thinking, and often won't volunteer their real views, for fear of alienating "regular" people, and being branded a fanatic.
co/wjzW5QPxqY via @BW — Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) October 30, 2014 From one son of the South and sports fanatic to another, my hat's off to you, @Tim_cook.
This is what a distinguished 19 century French mineralogist calls the passion of the pioneer which the goes on to describe as "the blend of an optimism that cannot contemplate failure, of a perseverance that is fanatic in its intensity and of a dedication amounting to obsessive concern".
The man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.
Darcy, 2007 The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Seoul Mates, 1991 The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
