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"fanaticism" Definitions
  1. extreme beliefs or behaviour, especially in connection with religion or politics
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The argument against this sort of pure moral heroism is that fanaticism in the relief of suffering is still a form of fanaticism.
You can't beat moral fanaticism with weak tea moral relativism.
It's free and this level of fanaticism simply can't last.
The Democratic resistance is taking on a form of fanaticism.
Fanaticism for their teams is unrivaled anywhere else in Mexico.
You engage fanaticism with love, first, for your own sake.
In Pullman's alternative universe, fanaticism and free inquiry cannot coexist.
Let's discuss policy and politics without engaging in political fanaticism.
In fact, the most powerful answer to fanaticism is modesty.
Admiration of only the easy parts is fanaticism, not reverence.
Fandom and fanaticism made their historical appearance hand in hand.
Fanaticism is a disease that grows out of existential anxiety.
He has had a front-row seat to Texas barbecue fanaticism.
Paul personified this type of mind—which could be called fanaticism.
It's a belief that through reasoned conversation values cohere and fanaticism recedes.
But they apparently underestimated the force of feline fanaticism on the internet.
His family jokes about his sudden fanaticism, but Carter defends his passion.
We might think of the fanaticism of terrorists as the antithesis of apathy.
The Lebanese capital became synonymous with violent fanaticism rather than with intellectual openness.
This is the path to fanaticism, and it always backfires in the end.
Since then, Iranians have experienced 40 years of fanaticism, repression and foreign wars.
She's the host of Cultish, a new podcast about fanaticism debuting in February 2016.
He continued to write, publishing collections of essays on Jewish literature, fanaticism and love.
I ask her what it is about the country singer that provokes such fanaticism.
Any other fanaticism does not come from God and is not pleasing to him.
In the case of suicide attacks, the terrorists' fanaticism adds a dimension of horror.
Understanding what MMA fanaticism is doing to my brain is above my pay grade.
The fanaticism that is the root of the word "fan" can cut both ways.
Finally, it's best to greet fanaticism with love for the sake of the country.
He fought fanaticism by doubling down on Enlightenment methods, with charity, reason and patience.
In the shallow expanse of vague ideas the point of fanaticism can be anywhere.
But he worried that France is far behind in preventing Muslim fanaticism from taking root.
Once again, the key is to understand that the core of sports entertainment is fanaticism.
Were it not for his religious fanaticism, I would vote for Pence in a heartbeat.
Civil war, religious fanaticism, thousands of Americans and just killed be lives, lives, lives wasted.
Little has been made of social media's instrumental role in aiding growing fanaticism in Bangladesh.
Instead of clearly confronting this outbreak of hate, he's often fanned the flames of fanaticism.
Mr. Trump has heated up the Jewish culture wars and, inadvertently or otherwise, advanced fanaticism.
But that which fanaticism formerly promised to its elect, science now accomplishes for all men.
A bestseller in his homeland, it offers a grimly compelling insight into the psychology of fanaticism.
Moore is emblematic of all the dangers of that fusion of the GOP with pious fanaticism.
And Paul's fanaticism draws Carrère's religious admiration, even as it repels and alienates his French humanism.
It was a beautiful expression of fanaticism engineered by an artist who uses frenzy as paint.
Allam is known as a moderate who has spoken out against the dangers of religious fanaticism.
In those years, he continued to write, publishing collections of essays on Jewish literature, fanaticism and love.
"The people were a laughing, careless set, devoid of fanaticism, having indeed very little religion," wrote Wills.
It is often stressed that ultra-right fanaticism must be targeted, as well as the Islamist kind.
" He also had this gem: "Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
Under the Trump administration, ORR has become the site of "anti-choice fanaticism," as Rewire puts it.
It was religious fanaticism that burned heretics and stripped altars and briefly raised up a Puritan theocracy.
They are lonely and sad, their fanaticism emerging from wounded pride, a feeling of not being seen.
The Republic, tested more than the United States of late, has not succumbed to fear or fanaticism.
The fanaticism for memorabilia is growing steadily as first generation gamers enter the latter stages of middle age.
The novel is interested in exploring where faith shades into fanaticism and where religion shades into a cult.
Voltaire contended that a unique faith, if granted secular power, was bound to degenerate into cruelty and fanaticism.
From this public consternation ensued the follies, abasements and fanaticism of their compatriots' deepening obsession with spy rings.
Like supposed Muslim fanaticism, reuse of material was long seen as a sign of the backwardness of Egyptians.
The social problems and fanaticism that led to the attacks in Brussels, he told me, were perhaps unsolvable.
Loose and slo-mo in their convivial fanaticism, most folks appeared to be just a wee bit polluted.
The distinction between religious fanaticism and mental disorder is not always clear — and is not necessarily worth making.
What has happened is that the ground keeps lurching more rightward beneath Flake's feet, toward fundamentalism and fanaticism.
But too many Americans have allowed bad faith and fanaticism to hold this field for far too long.
The gun-rights fanaticism of the Republican Party is out of touch with a majority of the electorate.
These Klingons also have elements of cultlike fanaticism, and there's reference to their having carried out "terrorist" attacks.
Nonconservatives like Mr. Stewart because he is different, but I see the light of fanaticism in his eyes.
Though he revered the Stars and Stripes—America's "civil religion", he called it—he abhorred sentiment and fanaticism alike.
With West's case, crime-obsessed users can feed off each other's fanaticism, unimpeded by the scrutiny of outside observers.
Jaundiced commentators often overlook these arguments, confusing the resister's counsel with a suicidal death wish, born of ideological fanaticism.
Lukewarm believers will fall away; the devout will remain, and a sense of embattlement does wonders for building fanaticism.
Attenborough's Adventures is bringing a whole new generation of humans into the fold of nature documentary fanaticism and we approve.
" Their presence would "alter the Greek character of the schools," the letter said, adding, "We will not allow religious fanaticism.
This wasn't celebration, but distanced commentary — a rejection of the sort of fanaticism MTV used to breed and feed on.
But that's more easily said than done when progressive paragons proclaim that old-fashioned Democratic centrism is the new fanaticism.
That fanaticism does still exist, but I think as far as getting taped and recorded, everyone's so used to that.
A tendency to conflate religious conservatism with the kind of fanaticism that feeds violence has undermined efforts to root out terrorism.
The point of all this goes beyond merely startling audiences, or even just drawing comparisons between different kinds of religious fanaticism.
It's clear why these games provoke fanaticism from the people who play them—it's territory most games don't get anywhere near.
But it is important to hold accountable Gulf states like Saudi Arabia that are wellsprings of religious zealotry, intolerance and fanaticism.
Some of us have pretty right-wing political opinions, but it's all based on logical thinking, not on hate-fueled fanaticism.
It is hard to comprehend why fanaticism, violence, hatred, fear and a desperate search for security are on the loose again.
The age of anxiety inevitably leads to an age of fanaticism, as people seek crude palliatives for the dizziness of freedom.
The current president feeds on the adoration of his base, and Republican fanaticism towards their president further isolates him from reality.
But as it turned out, my Oreo fanaticism didn't blind me to what I considered flaws in almost all the cookies.
He came, too, with a sermon praising a shared European culture, a speech that decried ignorance and isolationism, nationalism and fanaticism.
Fanaticism surrounding the case was largely a product of the pre-internet, pre-social media environment in which it took place.
It's an American thing, religious — yes -- in scope, fundamentalist in its fanaticism and fervor, without precise parallel anywhere else in the world.
The United Nations should build on that framework to foster greater dialogue between religions and sects to counter this dangerous medieval fanaticism.
The room was hot, cramped, and packed with apparent Riedel fanatics — as if such brutally dull work could inspire anything resembling fanaticism.
He has a cold, single-minded fanaticism for the Führer, and you could spot him as a bad guy a mile away.
But throughout history the wiser minds have understood that anger and moral posturing are not a good antidote to rage and fanaticism.
They lost and disappointment helped fuel the ethnic and religious fanaticism that has led to the rise of the pro-Sunni Islamic State.
Her Trumpisms don't sound like Trump's because they're pitched to a different audience, but the xenophobia and the fanaticism is exactly the same.
As PM, she's governed with all the same senselessness and caprice as her colleague across the pond, driven by the same ideological fanaticism.
With a robust SoundCloud presence and buoyed by social-media induced fanaticism, he is succeeding at his own frenetic and off-kilter tempo.
In her telling of the story, Murdoch brings the same fanaticism and dignity to the search for and meaning of modern Native America.
"The Witch" (A24), set in New England in the 1630s, became a breakout horror success last year by exploring religious fanaticism and groupthink.
"(Lopez's) extreme ideology and environmental fanaticism will only cause a mess that will hurt many and benefit no one," Recidoro told the hearing.
From the start, with antiqued detail, naturalistic lighting and tightly packed bodies, he signals the claustrophobia of the plantation, where religious fanaticism meets groupthink.
The Greek government too issued a statement saying that despite "daily fake news and rampant fanaticism" it hoped that the deal would be preserved.
There's tremendous potential there for a humorous portrait of fanaticism, of the personal side of fascism as it hits its end-state death drive.
And sometimes the motive for destruction really is religious fanaticism, which is not always the same as waging total war against an alien group.
But McDonalds either underestimated the level of fanaticism among fans of the show or was unable to manufacture more of the sauce, which myrecipes.
In our most satirical versions, we hope to point out the lurking fanaticism and how it uses that inspiring language or that heartwarming language.
Clemens plays Hilary with a kind of controlled fanaticism, showing at every turn the mutuality between her deepest feelings and her most challenging insights.
Late last year, the Kingdom organized the 34-country Islamic Coalition to combat terrorism and counter ideological fanaticism by sharing information, intelligence and equipment.
Moore is now the party's candidate for Senate for a number of reasons, among them that his brand of fanaticism is familiar in Alabama.
With Obama's election, the Tea Party—a movement that cloaked its fanaticism in the language of patriotism—staged a coup of the Republican Party.
However, Suwage's use of humor through the inclusion of masks injects an element of levity in his works that undercuts the actions of fanaticism.
Earlier this month, Nazimuddin Samad, 28, a so-called "atheist blogger" who condemned religious fanaticism, was murdered near Jagannath University, where he studied law.
And while Amir may be in prison, this tense, politically angry film suggests that Israel bypassed a reckoning with the nurturers of his fanaticism.
BARI, Italy (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Saturday that building walls, occupying territories and religious fanaticism would never bring peace to the Middle East.
As Muslims embrace Ramadan this year, we must be vigilant that these two extremes, white supremacist ideology and Islamist fanaticism, do not rip us apart.
Obviously the ready availability of weapons is a big issue, obviously Islamic fanaticism is a big issue...[and] the intolerance of those against different lifestyles.
At home he eschewed sloganeering (he pressed for "Death to America" chants to be dropped from Friday prayers) and decried fanaticism, calling it "Islamic fascism".
Meanwhile, the openly white-nationalist component of the alt-right spans varying degrees of fanaticism, most notably differing in their willingness to openly condone violence.
As she slips farther into fanaticism and the arms of John Leal, Will is driven desperately and jealously to his own retaliatory exertion of control.
Rape, abuse, intolerance, fear of the other, religious fanaticism: 30 years after its creation, "Speaking in Tongues" seems to be talking directly to our time.
Because Waititi's Jojo is—as he, and the viewer, are so often reminded—just a boy, his fanaticism can be safely written off as childlike.
The bombing of Dresden reminds Germans of the destruction of democracy, nationalist hubris, contempt for humanity, anti-Semitism and racial fanaticism, Steinmeier said in his speech.
As you carry your campaign forward, I hope you will consider George Santayana's observation that fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts after you've forgotten your aims.
Speaking to Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow on his show, Hannity accused Trump's critics of pursuing the Russia investigation with the same fanaticism as "birther" conspiracy theorists.
" Once the Walled Off gets visitors ensnared, Banksy says he wants the hotel to function as, "A three-storey cure for fanaticism, with limited car parking.
Meanwhile experts are concerned that the country's pockets of religious fanaticism could make the Philippines a regional lure for extremists across Asia supporting the Islamic State.
At its loftiest, their profound seclusion suggests that they're spiritual and philosophical heirs to an isolationist like Henry Thoreau; at worst, it suggests fanaticism, cultishness, selfishness.
"What Nazism [and] fascism and communism were to the 20th century, Western ideologies on homosexuality and abortion and Islamic fanaticism are today," he declared in 2015.
"Our enemies are not man," he wrote Dr. King in 1966, but "intolerance, fanaticism, dictatorship, cupidity, hatred and discrimination which lie within the heart of man."
In "Human, All Too Human," Nietzsche predicted that, as the democratic state secularized itself, there would be a surge of religious fanaticism resistant to centralized government.
"Jojo Rabbit" may have fun puncturing demagoguery and fanaticism, but it's deadly serious when it comes to the heart, and its ability to turn. PG-13.
The sweet-faced Ms. Reynolds played against type — opposite Shelley Winters, no less — in this macabre thriller about murderous sons, religious fanaticism, lesbianism and bunny rabbits.
She had stayed in town working at the library, where she catalogued old, miscellaneous photos according to the objects or themes they contained: Fanaticism, Rhinoceros, Etiquette.
Importantly, being tolerant does not mean acquiescing to those who view tolerance with hatred and scorn, and seek to destabilize the region by fomenting sectarianism and fanaticism.
Firstly, it was something of a 'cult' triumph during its earlier iterations; secondly, its culture of behind-closed-doors fanaticism generates an inevitable sense of the arcane.
It also faulted Xi for building up a cult of personality that has caused fear among those who experienced the turmoil and fanaticism of the Cultural Revolution.
"As interior minister for 10 months, the No. 1 risk in Italy and Europe is Islamic extremism, Islamic fanaticism, Islamic terrorism," Salvini declared at the press conference.
Indeed, the congressman has a long history of anti-abortion fanaticism: For years, he's tried to ban abortion after the 20-week mark in a woman's pregnancy.
The great fault line in American politics is between the pure progressivism of Sanders, and the modern Republican combination of crony capitalist conservatism and alt-right fanaticism.
During the anti-bourgeois fanaticism of the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s a famous producer of female underwear, Gujin, started making woollen jumpers to survive.
The increase in violence has raised fears that the once-moderate country is in the grip of a wave of fanaticism that the government refuses to acknowledge.
His father, who taught in a lycée, was aligned with the Catholic, reactionary side of politics—but by no means with its Jew-hating or monarchist fanaticism.
We may find it hard to believe that religious beliefs could motivate murders and insist that extreme violence is always due to mental instability or political fanaticism.
Yet, even as the body count of this fanaticism grows, the nation still lacks a coherent strategy for countering the violent extremism made possible through the internet.
The comedian Sam Morrill combines his fanaticism for New York teams with his joke-writing talent to dissect sports from a fan's perspective in this new show.
Within two weeks of the Inauguration, the hysterical hyperventilators have come to seem more prescient in their fear of incipient autocratic fanaticism than the reassuring pooh-poohers.
While Fiona is far from the little baby that first captured hearts two years ago, her keepers and friends don't expect Fiona fanaticism to slow down anytime soon.
Having bid goodbye to the Veyron at last year's Geneva Motor Show, Bugatti has returned with a successor that faithfully carries on the proud heritage of performance fanaticism.
The Cultural Revolution is often considered a time of fanaticism and blind obedience, but you write that undercurrents of dissent arose quite early in the Red Guard movement.
It finds tension in opposing forces of common sense and fanaticism, contemporary views and doctrinal antiquity, the reality of fighting for IS and the glory the group promises.
"Mark is one of those dudes whose passion [at one point] was unfortunately taken as fanaticism... He had a negative connotation," Lyricks explained to me at the screening.
An activist with good information can lead to reform and progress, but activism with false information leads to fanaticism and to zealotry, and I think that's what's happening.
Image by Suzie Kelly Here's the dirty secret about presidential elections: For all the fervor and fanaticism, they have little to no effect on your day-to-day life.
For instance, anxiety about organ damage is a cliche concern from gawking outsiders, and many tightlacers have the desire to share their fanaticism for waist-based bodymods without criticism.
Given the breadth of Hezbollah's capabilities, the depth of its fanaticism, and the experience of Hamas's excavation projects in Gaza, it's fair to assume other tunnels will be found.
It's a commonplace by now that if someone of Middle Eastern extraction commits a violent crime, the press is quick to attribute it to fanaticism, to a violent ideology.
"This fanaticism is an attack on civilizations and thus on the unity of the human species," Hollande told the UNESCO conference, referring to Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
American University's Matthew Wright found that another group, about 20 percent of the population, really is focused on illegal immigrants as part of a larger fanaticism about rule-following.
The college game inspired such fanaticism in the years between World War I and II that it became a popular subject for motion pictures, especially for the great screen comedians.
How to persuade a jihadist, or somebody tempted by jihadism, that there might be better, and truer, ways to understand Islam than the murderous fanaticism of IS and similar groups?
Among believers an atheist, among atheists a skeptic, among skeptics an agnostic, among agnostics all emphatic on the apophatic, I laughed in my beard at market panics, fanaticism, Beyoncé worship.
And fairly or not, antifa violence feeds the "many sides" narrative, makes martyrs out of barbarians, and gives Fox News and friends the opportunity to further stoke far-right fanaticism.
Photo by Wayne Valdez, courtesy of S.S. Records​ Boston hardcore in the early 80s was synonymous with intense violence, extreme straight-edge fanaticism, and, to some extent, right wing politics.
To resist convenience — not to own a cellphone, not to use Google — has come to require a special kind of dedication that is often taken for eccentricity, if not fanaticism.
The use of a German cover of The Beatles' "I Want To Hold Your Hand" in the opening credits sets the tone early on — authoritarian regimes rely on blind fanaticism.
How to preserve our inborn clear-mindedness in front of all the threats and dangers of fanaticism, how to preserve the humanity of our hearts among the upsurge of bestiality?
But there are general characteristics we associate with moderation, including prudence, the humility to recognize limits (including our own), the willingness to balance competing principles and an aversion to fanaticism.
Ultimately he is most appealing to those with a love of the absolute purity and fanaticism of an artist so true to his vision, he was nearly eclipsed from history.
He stumbled into a public relations disaster in 2006 at the University of Regensburg in Germany when he quoted a 14th century Byzantine emperor suggesting fanaticism was inherent to Islam.
The book's title comes from Popper, who saw the "spirit of the tribe"—a longing for a collective world free from individual responsibilities—as the source of nationalism and religious fanaticism.
"There's sort of a matching game that goes on where you climb a ladder, figuring out the level of someone's fanaticism about space by how many details they know," Stephenson says.
"Just as the freedom of belief always has to be protected from religious fanaticism, so freedom of worship, on the other hand, requires that religion be protected from contempt," Merkel added.
Ryan's ideological fanaticism has been apparent for years, and become more widely accepted since Trump began meticulously exposing the hollowness of Ryan's commitments to anything other than supply-side fiscal policy.
It should avoid the disastrous examples of Germany's domineering general staff in World War I or Japan's bellicose generals in World War II, whose political dominance brought confusion, fanaticism and ruin.
The series goes much further than most American shows in fleshing out the lives and motivations of the non-American characters, not falling back on the usual assertions of religious fanaticism.
In "Dominion", he argues that many of Darwin's apparently atheistic traits, from the fanaticism of his followers to his scientific awe, "derived from a much older seedbed"; ie, a Christian one.
To be against violence, frightened of fanaticism, acutely conscious of the customary nature of our most devout attachments—without this foundation in realism, political action always pivots toward puritanical self-righteousness.
Francis said many conflicts had been stoked by "forms of fundamentalism and fanaticism that, under the guise of religion, have profaned God's name – which is peace – and persecuted age-old neighbors".
A host of leaders in the scientific community have recognized that the argument for drastic anthropogenic global warming is no longer based on science, but is being driven by irrational fanaticism.
As to the question of who killed Faisal Deepan, I realized the answer was less important than untangling the web of Islam, fanaticism, political rivalry, history, and power that had dominated Bangladesh.
In his view, both kinds of fanaticism reflect both the failure of the liberal democratic order to inspire anyone to defend it, and the insidious attractiveness of ideologies which challenge that order.
" Theroux admits that the all or nothing commitment, what he calls a "revolutionary fanaticism," of Scientologists is not unique to Scientology, but he says, "It is there and it is extremely intoxicating.
Today, Thatcher's view of Europe "has won much wider acceptance," says Moore, and he would say that, as someone whose Europhobic journalism has long been distinguished by a kind of genteel fanaticism.
That's the image that comes to mind because, for all the theatricality of Fern's other projects, Vatican Shadow is the space in which he explores the grimly dehumanizing everyday of religious fanaticism.
She was in the school on Tuesday, this time as a teacher, gazing through another window at yet more people felled by fanaticism, comforting students who come from any number of countries.
It would be a stretch to call Mr. Serebrennikov a dissident artist, but his plays and films have touched on sensitive topics in Russian society, including anti-Semitism, religious fanaticism and sexism.
STEVEN MORRISMOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. To the Editor: When David Brooks writes that "the most powerful answer to fanaticism is modesty" (albeit "assertive modesty"), he is being too modest with his word choice.
Churchill explained the "tribal" inhabitants of this political frontier as the "barbarous people" possessed of "merciless fanaticism" who "freely bought and sold" and "not infrequently bartered for rifles" their wives and daughters.
There were no defining traumas or fractures with society, only small signs that, in retrospect, hinted at trouble: too much time spent online, perhaps, or a fearlessness that could ripen into fanaticism.
Historically, damage to ancient sculptures in the Islamic period was often seen as the result of Muslim "fanaticism," even if this was exaggerated or imagined by European and American observers in many cases.
Bin Laden sapped America's confidence, wove fear into the nation's fabric, and inspired a metastasizing form of jihadi fanaticism that continues to terrorize the West in the crazed pursuit of a restored caliphate.
Although social class, religious fanaticism and early forensic medical procedures are all duly explored, I confess to being more thrilled by the spectacle of a life-size animatronic doll — with rotating glass eyes!
This final decision not to indict the officers will be viewed through a prism of fervent fanaticism that is the strident belief that people of color simply cannot get justice in 2018 America.
BEIJING — China's Cultural Revolution, the decade-long campaign remembered for its fanaticism and upheaval, began in 1966 and was enforced by radicalized students who pledged to put the Communist Party ahead of self.
But I should point out that while he didn't initially command broad support within his party, the backers he did have were loud and proud to the point of fanaticism (and remain so).
At the beginning of acts and during the final ballet, texts drawn from or inspired by contemporaneous writers attacking Cortés's fanaticism were projected as if they were Moralez's thoughts, offsetting the laudatory libretto.
"They might have different names — ISIS, Boko Haram, Hamas, Al Shabab, Al Qaeda, Hezbollah — but all of them are driven by the same hatred and bloodthirsty fanaticism," Netanyahu said in January last year.
That so many of the movement's critics accuse supporters of the opposite—of fanaticism, bordering on the familiar accusations of hysteria and irrationality—reveals more about their politics than the politics of their targets.
Judas feels acutely a perversion of the message, and he also feels the danger of the message getting out of control — of dedication and love and unity and community turning into fanaticism and zealotry.
It offers insight into both the cultural fanaticism present during the 255's and 232's and how Germany produced an indoctrinated population both mostly unfamiliar with modern art and highly antagonistic toward it.
An example of what they viewed as overreach by the Chinese officials was references in the regulations that identified extremism as the "spreading of religious fanaticism through irregular beards" or the selection of names.
KCON's growth reflects consistently increasing fanaticism in this country about K-pop, which is popular the world over, and has loads of devotees here, but hasn't quite cracked the mainstream of American pop culture.
Mr. Kriegenburg is interested in drawing parallels between the war of Catholic and Protestant factions in 16th-century France and today's society, noting a pattern of religious fanaticism that can have lethal effects for humanity.
This means that viewers are exposed to brutal fanaticism but they learn little about the political and societal factors behind their atrocities, seeing much of the blood but little of the path that led to it.
This now includes conservatives like me, with previously pristine records of right-wing fanaticism, at least as classified by the mainstream press, and ranging from Glenn Beck to the National Review, Ted Cruz to Paul Ryan.
Fisher's daughter, Billie Lourd, could not attend the ceremony but sent a letter (read aloud by Disney CEO and event emcee, Bob Iger) that sang the praises of her and her mother's lifelong fanaticism of Disney.
Taiko drumming may be rooted in Shinto and Zen, but Kodo's often lighthearted art has no explicit connection with religion, or with the fanaticism of the Den years; indeed, they wince at any mention of "demon".
Commonly known as the "blundering generation" interpretation, it held that the sectional conflict arose not from a fundamental disagreement over slavery but from the squabbling of politicians whose demagoguery and fanaticism eventually undermined the political system.
And while he might not have the fanaticism of Gale, Kosan takes his coffee seriously, sourcing beans from all over the world, roasting them daily, and using Chemex for brewing (for purposes of taste and aesthetic).
But playing in a region not known for its hockey fanaticism, the Ducks have escaped the scrutiny that the Rangers and the Washington Capitals have drawn for falling short in the playoffs despite strong regular seasons.
Election posters refer to her only as "Marine"; there's no mention of the party; and she's attempted to supplant xenophobic fanaticism with a nationalism that argues against immigration — particularly Muslim immigration — on security and economic grounds.
That intense historical fanaticism — "a desire to regulate, to keep some kind of stability among the chaos, also to keep a standard of quality," he said — is, in essence, no different from a formal curatorial approach.
Another leading figure in the Abu Walaa network was Boban Simeonovic, a 36-year-old German-Serbian from Dortmund who acted as a guru to Amri and had a reputation for fanaticism even in these radical circles.
Here, in the final third of the book, is where he started to lose me, and not just because he does the classic Silicon Valley outsider thing of misunderstanding Silicon Valley's devotion to data as religious fanaticism.
In the late '90s, we can see celebs stepping up their game at Bette Midler's birthday party — which, incidentally, was one of the first places we got to see Martha Stewart's Halloween fanaticism beyond her magazine's pages.
But it surely behoves anybody who holds or aspires to moral leadership in the Western world, from clerics to politicians to public intellectuals, to be ultra-careful not to give any sort of cover to nativist fanaticism.
Francis is travelling to Abu Dhabi to participate in a conference on interreligious dialogue sponsored the Emirates-based Muslim Council of Elders, an initiative that seeks to counter religious fanaticism by promoting a moderate brand of Islam.
Now we have supposedly advanced beyond those divisions, and if violence or fanaticism still intrudes it's because of technical and political failures — insufficient education, the misallocation of resources, insufficient dialogue, ideological manipulation — rather than deep theological divides.
At $200, it's probably not for everyone, but it's also well-positioned to be a premium keyboard option for the average consumer looking to treat themselves without going totally overboard into the world of hardcore keyboard fanaticism.
That fact, coupled with Thiel's longtime fanaticism of "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy — which was filmed in the country — is how Thiel and the rest of the tech elite made New Zealand their target apocalyptic hideout.
Even if we could kill every insurgent tomorrow, they would return, as long as they can draw on the religious fanaticism of the madrasas, the ethnic ambitions of the Pashtun, and the profits of the heroin trade.
Tzvetan Todorov, a Bulgarian-French literary theorist and historian of ideas whose concerns in dozens of books ranged from fantasy in fiction to the moral consequences of colonialism, fanaticism and the Holocaust, died on Tuesday in Paris.
The challenges facing us are, to an ever-increasing degree, transnational in nature — from terrorism to proliferation, from failing states to fanaticism in the name of faith, from climate change to mass migration, from pandemics to cyberattacks.
Not long ago, utopianism was a mark of naïveté or fanaticism, or even of solidarity with political coercion; today, anti -utopianism is denigrated as a form of political cynicism and complicity with the global forces of oppression.
" Arab League chief Abul Gheit has said such a move would "nourish fanaticism and violence," and Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi it would "trigger anger across the Arab and Muslim world, fuel tension and jeopardize peace efforts.
BARI, Italy (Reuters) - Pope Francis led a summit of Christian leaders on how to promote peace in the Middle East on Saturday and said building walls, occupying territories and religious fanaticism would not resolve conflict in the region.
He also condemned religious extremism, saying many conflicts in the region had been stoked by "forms of fundamentalism and fanaticism that, under the guise of religion, have profaned God's name, which is peace, and persecuted age-old neighbors".
The Tory party is naturally better protected from the spirit of millenarianism than Labour: Toryism is surely a philosophy based on the notion of the imperfectability of man, the necessity of messy compromises and the danger of fanaticism.
Trumpcare is responsive only to Republican commitments to repeal Obamacare and pass large, regressive tax cuts, but those goals are artifacts of unprincipled political campaigning and a tax-cut fanaticism that is entirely divorced from the public interest.
The novel examines the dangers of utopian fanaticism, as well as the destructiveness of an out-of-touch government that imagines a threat to its existence where there isn't one — a deadly misunderstanding between rulers and the ruled.
But like a lot of establishment Democrats, Buttigieg seems to be confusing Sanders' Twitter following — which really does go in for a lot of off-putting sectarian fanaticism – for Bernie himself who is a much more deft politician.
Reformers must avoid fanaticism and listen to the facts; but the friends of reform must keep their indignation intact, and not be blinded to suffering by the news that our model of how people suffer should be retuned.
He'd sit in a box seat dressed in a Yankees jacket and cap, baring that toothy grin, and although I am a Mets fan suckled on Yankees loathing, I had to concede his fanaticism was nutty and real.
To find out, we spoke with three Playboy collectors of varying fanaticism to get their perspectives on the magazine's past, present, and future, and whether eliminating the explicit will help Playboy build back what once made it so appealing.
Notable exceptions include centrist President Klaus Iohannis, an ethnic German, who has said that as a member of an ethnic and religious minority, he supports tolerance and openness towards others who are different while rejecting religious fanaticism and ultimatums.
In a statement issued by all five nominated directors, they uniformly condemn "the climate of fanaticism and nationalism" in the U.S. and other countries — as this is an American awards show, naturally America is the focus of the statement.
Sadly, the embrace and promotion of history&aposs oldest hatred by Abbas is dooming another generation of young Palestinians to embrace fanaticism and to believe that their Israeli neighbors are interlopers and devils who can be forced out their homes.
Taking place 10,000 years before Frank Herbert's classic novel Dune, it explores the origins of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood and a conflict between reason and fanaticism, all of which will help set the stage for the events to come.
Characters argue that Mohammed's death is a "man bites dog" exception; they debate the line between mental illness and fanaticism, the immense power gulf between Israeli citizens and Palestinians suffering under the occupation, the fraught notion of collective punishment.
Initially welcomed as liberators, Americans increasingly found themselves resented by locals, especially Pashtuns, who were willing to tolerate Taliban rule, as long as that group preserved longstanding Afghan practices and maintained its reputation for incorruptibility despite its religious fanaticism.
Maybe it's time to abandon the assumption that underpins a lot of Western security and foreign policy: that extremism is something that "they" bring to "us," and that there is something special about Western culture that keeps such fanaticism at bay.
Either the country is going to get a grip on its crisis of institutions and its deficits in leadership or it is going to increasingly resemble Iraq before the surge, albeit with drug money taking the place of religious fanaticism.
Yet Douglass was repelled by Brown's fanaticism: morally clear-eyed on the subject of slavery, Brown was crazy on the subject of what to do about slavery, moved by bloodlusts and Biblicism and incapable of reasoning about means and ends.
The directors of the four films he is up against – from Sweden, Germany, Denmark and Australia – joined Farhadi in issuing a joint statement ahead of the Oscars criticizing a "climate of fanaticism and nationalism" in the United States and elsewhere.
Carole Joffe is the author of Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us, and a professor in the Bixby Center for global Reproductive Health, at the University of California, San Francisco.
This initiative aimed at showing that American Muslims are speaking out against terrorism, extremism and fanaticism on a sustained basis and are reaching out to Americans of all faiths and ethnicities with a message of peace, unity and mutual acceptance.
The religious fanaticism of so-called Christian and New Age cults persists in more marketable guises in mainstream Christianity across the United States, while the spirit of self-determination that impels many of these sects is central to American ideology.
Depending on so many factors, it can range from conscious abuse to something very unconscious -- and that is the point I was making, cautiously, in the context of a conversation about fanaticism and cultural norms which support manipulative or abusive behavior.
Mr. Addison was moved because his committee's effort to put forth a more diverse slate of candidates had paid off, and also because he, himself a former pastry chef, loves Ms. Miles's peach cobbler with a passion that borders on fanaticism.
The genre of self-help lives and dies on this fanaticism: We should eat like cave men, scale distant mountains, ingest live charcoal, walk across scalding stones, lift oversize tires, do yoga in a hothouse, run a marathon, run another.
In the season 37 premiere, one of the show's more famous longtime-viewers-turned-contestants — Mike White, who you may recognize as School of Rock's Ned Schneebly — even professed his Survivor fanaticism in one of his testimonials to the camera.
A dose of homophobia was added to the usual mix of religious fanaticism and self-loathing—a particularly potent dose, it appears, because it turns out the killer may have been gay himself and had visited Pulse at least a dozen times before.
Salem looms over our conception of the moral panic to such an extent that it can be easy to assume that nearly all such panics are the product of irrational religious fanaticism (and anti-communism had quasi-religious fanatical aspects of its own).
Five Oscar nominees in the foreign-language film category released a statement ahead of the awards show condemning "the climate of fanaticism and nationalism in the U.S." — a statement that is likely the first of many political comments expected during Sunday's Academy Awards.
Critics argue that by putting such a personal stamp on power and eliminating the previous collective leadership model, Mr. Xi is setting the stage for a return to the excesses of personal loyalty and fanaticism that nearly tore China apart during Mao's time.
Japanese street wear can be simultaneously forward-looking and devoted to tradition, and it often involves taking a common garment — a pair of motorcycle jeans, a military parka or a classic crew-neck sweatshirt — and refining its craftsmanship to the point of fanaticism.
But although it's likely that years down the road there will probably be successful, sustainable ventures funded by this new way of raising cash, entrepreneurs and investors alike should be wary of fanaticism, unbelievability and delusion — a different kind of FUD — clouding their judgment.
It is that yearning impulse to be in the artist's presence, to be near "for just a few moments" to see if any of her strength might rub off by osmosis, that drives the exhibit—and, I would argue, a new generation of O'Keeffe fanaticism.
Immediately after the war, George Orwell began to use the term "nationalism" as a synonym for political fanaticism, and scholars such as Elie Kedourie began to develop the argument that the political theory of nationalism had been decisive in bringing about the two world wars.
Without revealing how suicide bombing figures into the final act of the book, it's enough to say that it fits into Boyagoda's absurdist design and raises, albeit late, some of the book's most fascinating questions about fanaticism and the state of the modern world.
Religious fanaticism is at the center of the plot, as it is in "Modus," but the mystery doesn't have a big payoff — the focus is on the relationships that develop among Maja and the local cops, and further seasons seem like a no-brainer.
But does that mean that el-Sisi's warmed-over Mubarakism — dictatorship without fanaticism; institutional corruption without outright plunder; a security state without mass murder; cooperation with the West in international affairs without the adoption of Western political values — is the best Egypt can hope for?
The modern EPA is a massive bureaucratic interest group out of control, effectively unconstrained by law or the constitution, a repository of environmental fanaticism utterly uninterested in the well-being of ordinary people or, for that matter, in the actual environmental effects of its edicts.
His phenomenal clash with Paul Dano's corrupt preacher, who uses fanaticism to mask his lust for power, remains one of cinema's most mesmerizing relationships: that between two men whose mutual desire for control is matched only by their mutual delight in wrecking each other.
This article originally appeared on EW.com The six directors behind this year's Oscar contenders for best foreign-language film have released a joint statement denouncing a "climate of fanaticism and nationalism" in the U.S. and around the world, while calling for unity and freedom of expression.
Kevin knows he can't die in Jarden, though he won't admit it, not even by episode's end, when he is confronted by Nora and Mary, who inform him that Mary is leaving Matt and taking their young son back to Mapleton because of Matt's religious fanaticism.
Next week, it's a good bet that the stadium will pass, simply because stadium politics — whether in Las Vegas or San Diego — bring out two of America's deepest manias: sports fanaticism, and the feeding frenzy set off whenever wealthy investors dangle money in front of politicians.
Now, the new Romeo Chef & Baker looks like a flagship for the era of food fanaticism: Snowflake sculptures hang from the ceiling; a guy shaves prosciutto at a gorgeous in-house deli; Mason jars, wine crates and tomato cans decorate the area around a sleek bar.
The directors of all five films nominated for the foreign-language Oscar issued a statement on Friday denouncing the rise of fanaticism and nationalism in the United States and beyond, and criticizing stigmatization based on race, religion, sexuality and gender, which they said bred fear and violence.
"Obviously this was a satirical approach to hint at the longstanding and unresolved antagonism between Iran and the United States, as well as the power of fanaticism which considers people's subconscious as a way to read through a society," Neshat comments on the premise of the film.
Instead, society has become a free-form demolition derby of moral confrontation: the cold-eyed fanaticism of students at Middlebury College and other campuses nationwide; the rage of the alt-right; holy wars over transgender bathrooms; the furious intensity at every town-hall meeting on every subject.
" Chamberlin added to her letter in a Facebook post, writing: "History is repeating itself; the same tactics are being used by Hitler (identify a problem, finding a scapegoat target to blame, and stirring up people with a combination of fanaticism, false promises, and fear, and gathering the funding).
" When the Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is profiled as a contrast to the libertarian fanaticism and raw commercialism of the Know-It-Alls, his inability to raise funding is used to reinforce this point: "Wales and his partners had no rich friends to lean on in tough times.
Sanders's odds of winning the nomination are extremely low no matter what Warren does, and while Biden was certainly Warren's antagonist on bankruptcy everyone with an adult understanding of politics sees that this was a question of Delaware home state stuff rather than ideological fanaticism on his part.
Here we have two books, both searing eyewitness accounts of past ideological fanaticism written by eminent Chinese intellectuals, that clearly fit the description of "historical nihilism," though, Ji Xianlin's "The Cowshed" was actually published in China a couple of decades ago, when things were a bit looser than they are today.
Three lounging ladies on a sun-soaked pier could be your three favorite aunties in their glamor days; a still of a pep rally brings back traumatic memories of faking fanaticism on game day; and a little boy stumbling through a hula-hoop might as well be a younger you.
"On behalf of all nominees, we would like to express our unanimous and emphatic disapproval of the climate of fanaticism and nationalism we see today in the U.S. and in so many other countries, in parts of the population and, most unfortunately of all, among leading politicians," the statement read.
None of the people in charge—certainly not some tired old party hack like Mitch McConnell, or an operator like Chuck Schumer, should he get the chance—were looking to take the whole game, forever, driven on by the fanaticism of their donors and the embroidered histories of their followers.
Jeremy Corbyn—a man who makes Theresa May look like an intellectual—has surrounded himself by hard-line Marxists such as Andrew Murray and Seumas Milne who, with their public-school educations, secular fanaticism and appetite for party infighting, come straight out of the pages of David Caute's "The Fellow-Travellers".
While the title is slightly misleading in that the Walker family belonged to a mostly black congregation and didn't live day to day with the effects of the leader's white-supremacist beliefs, the book is a devastating testament to the scope of the damage that can be wrought by fanaticism.
"Betsy DeVos is basically the embodiment of everything that Democrats were afraid the Trump administration was going to be — from right-wing fanaticism to blatant conflicts of interest to laughable stuff like owning however many yachts she has," said Stephanie Grasmick, a partner at the Democratic consulting firm Rising Tide Interactive.
Beyond the zealotry and fanaticism of the ISIS fanboys, however, is an intellectual lineage that Wood traces back to the thirteenth-century polymath and iconoclast Ibn Taymiyyah, as well as his seventeenth-century student Ibn Abd al-Wahhab, who popularized the idea that Muslims could apostatize other Muslims and kill them for sinning.
"We have more individual ticket-buyers than ever before, but because they are relatively new to the Met, they are not yet converted to the kind of opera fanaticism that would result in enough multiple ticket purchases to make up for the loss of the older subscribers," he said in a telephone interview.
" The senator said the era for global success of democracy has shifted to "a time in which the seductions of authoritarian rule find favor with many; when self-interested leadership excuses naked aggression with weak rationalizations; when ethnic grievances haunt the old and religious fanaticism fires the minds of the misguided young.
Read the filmmakers' full statement below, via Variety: On behalf of all nominees, we would like to express our unanimous and emphatic disapproval of the climate of fanaticism and nationalism we see today in the U.S. and in so many other countries, in parts of the population and, most unfortunately of all, among leading politicians.
He divides his time between organizing the Muza5k, an annual marathon that visits eight different pizzerias to uncover the city's best slice of mozzarella, and obsessively visiting the city's pizzerias to collect anecdotes and discuss the minutia of pizza culture for a book that will recount its story and the compulsive fanaticism pizza elicits here.
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Fused together by ethnic and cultural ties and a common inheritance of liberal ideas and institutions, America and Britain have stood together through world wars, the Cold War, the unifying of Europe and Germany, the spread of free institutions and markets and, now, what promises to be a long, difficult struggle against Islamist fanaticism.
"Then and there I vowed to do all that I could to combat fanaticism and intolerance and devote my life to the pursuit of justice through the Buddhist teachings of nonviolence, tolerance and compassion," he wrote in 1994, in an open letter to Do Muoi, the general secretary of Vietnam's Communist Party at the time.
I neither had the intention to not attend nor did I want to boycott the event as a show of objection, for I know that many in the American film industry and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are opposed to the fanaticism and extremism which are today taking place more than ever.
" The document, a sort of manifesto of peace for two religions whose adherents have spilled each other's blood for centuries, called upon "all concerned to stop using religions to incite hatred, violence, extremism and blind fanaticism, and to refrain from using the name of God to justify acts of murder, exile, terrorism and oppression.
Advantage naturally belongs to the loyalists who, by virtue of fanaticism or lack of principle, are most comfortable repeating the lies of the leader; the lies then become a powerful tool for marginalizing potential competitors who, through lack of loyalty or the presence of at least faint principles, hesitate even momentarily in repeating them.
Only in the chapter where he offhandedly describes the all-encompassing Federer fanaticism of his friend Mike, who tries to time his child's conception to produce a delivery on Federer's birthday, and of Marcia, a former political prisoner in Brazil who now travels the world to follow Federer, do we find characters worthy of book-length attention.
The Paris prosecutor, François Molins, said in an interview on the radio station France Inter on Friday morning that it was "obvious" that the attacks had been coordinated from abroad, by people in Syria but also by individuals "who pushed fanaticism and professionalism" to the point of coming to monitor the terrorist operations from France and Belgium, he said, mentioning Abdelhamid Abaaoud.
Through its consumer-driven forum, Z-Community, ZTE is holding a contest on who can show their fanaticism for Android or ZTE, and will choose 7 Grand Prize Winners to win an all-expenses paid trip to Las Vegas 12 Secondary Prize Winners will also receive a portion of their trip paid to attend the show and ZTE's Pre-CES Fan Event.
I wanted to find out how and why a few former extremists left the world of fanaticism behind, so I got in touch with a few of them: ex-Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) members Billy McCurrie and Martin Snoddon, reformed racist Matthew Collins, former Irish Republican Army (IRA) member Shane O'Doherty, and Manwar Ali, who was once involved in violent jihad.
She did it by uniting nonreligious longtime residents angry about being turned into minorities in their own city, English-speaking Orthodox immigrants impatient with inadequate government services, and forward-thinking ultra-Orthodox who were both sick of being denigrated as not religious enough and embarrassed by the bad press that Beit Shemesh has earned as a hotbed of religious fanaticism.
M. Cioran What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will have more in common with the meticulous, calculated correctness of Himmler than with the hysterical fanaticism of Hitler, will more resemble the stubborn dullness of Molotov than the sensual vindictive cruelty of Stalin.
He has opposed same-sex marriage but also condemned homophobia and the fanaticism of people who say that "all the great evils of the world are being perpetrated by gay and lesbian people, which I cannot believe to be the case…" But his term in office was marked out not so much by ideological or theological stances as by a character that somehow transcended the pomp and ceremony that go with his rank.
Specifically, it prohibits: Advocating or propagating extremist thoughts Wearing or forcing others to wear full-face coveringsHyping up religious fanaticism through growing beards or choosing names in an abnormal wayNot allowing children to receive state education, interfering with state education;Deliberately interfering or harming the implementation of family planning policies;Publishing, downloading or reading articles, publications and audio-video material containing extremist content;Rejecting or refusing state products and services that include radio and television programming.
Beriah Magoffin regarding Alabama's reasonings for exiting the Union (emphasis added): What Southern man, be he slave-holder or non-slave-holder, can without indignation and horror contemplate the triumph of negro equality, and see his own sons and daughters in the not distant future associating with free negroes upon terms of political and social equality, and the white man stripped by the heaven-daring hand of fanaticism of that title to superiority over the black race which God himself has bestowed?
The Y2K shutdown didn't happen; the age of blogging began; boyband fanaticism reached its peak with NSYNC's No Strings Attached while Backstreet Boys were still riding hard on Millennium; MTV launched Cribs, giving us a personal insight into the inner lives of the stars then fully distanced from the rest of us by the absence of social media; Britney Spears released Oops, I Did It Again, Limp Bizkit released Chocolate Starfish and the Hotdog Flavored Water, and both artists had such an equally massive impact on the zeitgeist that Eminem namechecked them in the same breath in a song he performed at the VMAs surrounded by lookalikes in an effort to skewer 00s pop culture and his own influence on it.

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