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fanatic

A fanatic is a person who is zealously enthusiastic about something, especially in religion or politics.

fanatic

a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause) A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject — -Winston Churchill (= rabid) marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea rabid isolationist

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Simple sentences

He's a bread baking fanatic.
She's a fanatic.
He's a fanatic.
Maria is sitting at her desk and translating a novel. She's surrounded by heaps of big dictionaries. Maria needs all of them as she is translating with an almost fanatic precision.
I'm not a fanatic.
Tom is a religious fanatic.
Tom is a sports fanatic.
Tom is a science fiction fanatic.
Tom is a fanatic.
Tom was a desperate fanatic.
Tom was a fanatic.
Tom isn't a fanatic.

Movie subtitles

He is a fanatic.
This man probably loves theater, an art fanatic.
Those are the words of a fanatic.
Pilate's given orders to arrest that fanatic.
Yes, the fanatic.
One of them's a fanatic.
One of Jules Verne's characters, a fanatic and a dreamer. argues for the construction of a rocket to the moon.
Are you a religious fanatic or something?
Neither do I, you fanatic.
I am not the ignorant fanatic i would appear.
What a fanatic!
A fanatic!
He was a fanatic.
What are you, some kind of religious fanatic?
William Lloyd Garrison is a fanatic.
From small groups of fanatic sectarians to the huge convents followed by the masses, they all leave their imprint on the ancient cultural land.
There its armored warriors ride, fraught with the fanatic will to maintain their country's peace and isolation by virtue of their own strength and their own belief in whatever the future may bring.
And you are not a fanatic.
We did already. Vice-president, Vargas's death is an isolated incident, the work of a fanatic.
Turn off the lights, you fanatic!
Spit-and-polish fanatic?
He was a fanatic like my mother, he used to talk to her.
This fanatic fool!
A religious fanatic.
He was a fanatic. His trials were always marked by extreme brutality.
A fanatic.
He was a desperate fanatic, citizen.
A fanatic whose only purpose is to kill Benes! And now you've made it possible.
Don't behave as a fanatic, waiting for things that never happen until we're finished.
Fanatic.
She's a fanatic about ritual.

News and current affairs

During any lull, a fanatic from either side could jump to center stage and, through an act of utter madness, kick up the settling dust and dash the hopes of the many on both sides who still long for a lasting peace.
Third, even if negotiations with less militant Chechens occur and succeed, terrorism will continue under the leadership of the religious fanatic Shamil Basaev.
Some westerners, while lamenting Ahmedinejad's insensitivity, have struggled to minimize the significance of his Holocaust denial as the fulminations of a misguided fanatic (as if misguided fanaticism were an incidental quality in a nation's president).
The fanatic is inflexible and inertial, a steamroller ready to flatten everything in his way.
Far from being a religious fanatic, Merah grew up as a petty criminal with no interest in religion.
It is similar to the fanatic feelings of a mouse who thinks that there is nothing more fearful than a cat.
Six months later, a fanatic targeted three churches during Sunday services, killing a few worshippers and injuring many.
Recall that a homegrown anti-government fanatic, Timothy McVeigh, perpetrated the worst case of terrorism in the US before September 11th, 2001.
To all appearances the act of a Puritan fanatic, the authorities suspected Berchet of being a part of an organized Puritan conspiracy.
Nevertheless, the stakes are far higher than in the seventeenth century, because Iran represents a threat that combines a fanatic religion with a determination to acquire nuclear weapons.
Not even an organized network would be required; just a fanatic with the mindset of those who now design computer viruses.
But becoming a murderous fanatic like Merah or Sidique Khan is the personal choice of a pathological mind, not the trend of a generation.

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