7 sentences with 'fanatical'
Example sentences and phrases with the word fanatical and other words derived from it.
• « The overall picture of Roman culture is of a society that, in its own way, was as fanatical and obsessed with war as was Sparta during the heyday of its barrack society. »
• « France was divided between two major factions, led by the fanatical Catholic Guise family and the Huguenot Bourbon family. »
• « Despite their own Catholicism, neither Charles nor Catherine was fanatical about their religion, much to the frustration of the nobles of the Catholic League. »
• « Rousseau's concept of a moralistic and fanatical government, justified by a "general will" of the people, was to become one of the ideological foundations of the French Revolution that began just a decade after his death. »
• « Robespierre inspired disgust and fear even among some of his former supporters because of his fanatical devotion to the revolutionary cause and his evident attachment to using terror to achieve his ends. »
• « This status quo was shattered in 1979 by the Iranian Revolution. What began as a coalition of intellectuals, students, workers and clerics opposed to the Shah's oppressive regime was overtaken by the most fanatical branch of the Iranian Shia clergy under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. »
• « A team of legal scholars launched the full arsenal of legal projectiles forged by fanatical opponents of the death penalty to prevent the executions. »