Fanatics
[fə'nætiks]
Examples
- Some fanatics among them, to be sure, held that one book, the Koran, was of itself sufficient to insure the well-being of the whole human race, but happily a more enlightened view prevailed. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Upon this text many fanatics arose, who prophesied that the end of time was come. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- They met troops of those who had quitted the kindly protection of Adrian, and were journeying to join the fanatics. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Matrimonial bliss is rare in the cases of gloomy fanatics. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In reality we are witnessing a change of conscience, initiated by cranks and fanatics, sustained for a long time by minorities, which has at last infected the mass of the people. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- An illusion, of course; but the fanatics cling to their dream, and would not give it for gold. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Surely it was deeper with them, with the Spanish religion fanatics, than it was with the people. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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