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How to use the word Fanatic in a Sentence?

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Although I'm a certified beauty fanatic, it pains me to witness all of the wasted packaging that isn't recyclable wind up in landfills, i think a lot of people would be surprised to learn that bottle pumps, which are so ubiquitous, can't be recycled since many of the metal components are too small. That's why I'm a big fan of companies that offer refillable containers and that sell bulk refills so I can keep my original bottle and pump for years.

Hannah Baxter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As a person I like him, he's a little bit of a fanatic. But he's not in my opinion a cheater or pretender. It is his personality -- that he's pushing hard and he expected everybody's pushing the same way.

Matthias John

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The practical objection to Puritanism, as to every form of fanaticism, is that it singles out certain evils as so much worse than others that they must be suppressed at all costs. The fanatic fails to recognise that the suppression of a real evil, if carried out too drastically, produces other evils which are even greater.

Bertrand Russell

added by Normando
4 years ago

Faith does not generate hatred. Faith does not shed blood. Faith calls for dialogue, fANATIC VISIONS.

Ruth Dureghello

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We haven't been the wild-haired fanatic that people think we are when it comes to backing candidates, when it comes down to vote, we have been sane and the extreme candidates fade, and I'm expecting that with Trump.

David Woodard

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This rightist Israeli fanatic government is pursuing its criminal policy to kill Palestinians. The new regulations would mean more escalation, killings and crimes against our people.

Wasel Abu Youssef

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We've always had very strong, fanatic, loyal supporters, but we're starting to win more people over into that group. The interest that we got in Canada has definitely carried over. And we hope to keep riding that success.

Becky Sauerbrunn

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Typically, when people think of Buffalo wings, they think of restaurants that are dark, masculine man caves, with mostly beer and lots of fried food and neon lights. The menu is often an afterthought, what we decided to do is make a new experience, one that is more female- and family-friendly, but where we don’t forget about the needs of the traditional sports fanatic.

Nader Masadeh

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We are thinking of naming the lion 'Ali' after the president as he's a cat fanatic.

Philipp Henschel

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.

Finley Peter Dunne

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

Aldous Huxley

added by anonymous
10 years ago

A fanatic is someone who redoubles his efforts when he has forgotten his aim.

Chuck Jones

added by anonymous
13 years ago

A fanatic is one compelled to action by the need to find a strong meaning in life. The fanatic determines for himself what role he is to play in life, and his intense devotion to a cause is the means.

Eugene E. Brussell

added by anonymous
14 years ago

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Winston Churchill

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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.

Eric Hoffer

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force the Race, the Party, History, the proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.

Lord Billingsley

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.

Heywood

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Fanatic. One who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Winston Churchill

added by anonymous
14 years ago

There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.

Milton R. Sapirstein

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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