How to Use fanaticism in a Sentence

fanaticism

noun

• That’s the terms of fanaticism, and any fanaticism is bad.
  — Hemal Jhaveri, WIRED, 29 Feb. 2024
• So all eyes and hearts among the Amerikites became hardened with the enamel of fanaticism and the glaze of hysteria.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2018
• The third is a salesman who lives in Baton Rouge and whose Tiger fanaticism rivals his dad's.
  — Tammy Nunez, NOLA.com, 14 Oct. 2017
• Bezos is unabashed in his fanaticism for Star Trek and its many spin-offs.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2019
• Amid the chaos and passions of that world, Lincoln was always prepared to take a middling course and to avoid fanaticism.
  — Gordon S. Wood, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
• But there is a point at which belief can tip over into fanaticism.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2022
• There’s almost a fanaticism of the LIME customer that has endured.
  — Ron Hurtibise, Sun-Sentinel.com, 28 Apr. 2017
• Elon Musk’s free-speech fanaticism might fly in the U.S., but don’t sleep on the European resistance.
  — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 26 Apr. 2022
• While fanaticism sparked the tragedy, the area’s isolation — and the poverty and lack of services for the indigenous Ngabé and Buglé peoples — had a role.
  — Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2020
• So much for old gods and fanaticism, then, this new Floki has embraced a gentler way.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2021
• To leave it there is to believe to the point of fanaticism the power of coincidence, which was the gist of what Watts was saying beneath all the vague dread.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 30 Mar. 2017
• One of the reasons for the persistent poverty of the Bronx has been the far-right fanaticism that Trump himself embodies.
  — Ritchie Torres, New York Daily News, 21 May 2024
• But no matter the fanaticism of the adherents, there is a ceiling on converts willing to listen to 15-minute songs about the shadows of the moon.
  — Jeff Weiss, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
• Even its star, who once hated the fanaticism around the series, has finally come around to it after all these years.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 5 May 2020
• And, at the very least, doubt is the antidote to dogma and fanaticism and reductionism.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2023
• The layer that stood out most, other than editing, for anyone who knew him involved his fanaticism for the Rolling Stones.
  — Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2022
• He was arrested by special agents of the regime — men known for their extremism and fanaticism.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 8 Mar. 2023
• The Dark Ages were rife with plague, fanaticism, and accusations that Jews secretly fed off the blood of children.
  — Brian Friedberg, Wired, 31 July 2020
• Houston was not immune to the fried chicken fanaticism.
  — Emily Heil, Houston Chronicle, 24 Dec. 2019
• Fans of Arizona sports teams can invest the perfect amount of fanaticism into their favorites: a little, but not a lot.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 24 Nov. 2020
• In all those ways and more, over the past seven days, the country has witnessed a parade of Republican fanaticism.
  — Dean Obeidallah, CNN, 18 Sep. 2022
• In her telling of the story, Murdoch brings the same fanaticism and dignity to the search for and meaning of modern Native America.
  — David Treuer, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2020
• The Maltese capital scores 100 on the wellness index thanks to its health and fitness fanaticism.
  — Debbi Kickham, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
• The kamikaze are the most potent symbol of the war in Japan, a vivid example of the dangers of fervent nationalism and martial fanaticism.
  — Ben Dooley, Star Tribune, 3 Dec. 2020
• His Fingal was compelled to root out evil falsehoods of any size, even if his fanaticism ended his career.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• Almost all of that regulation has now gone out the window, thanks to Scott Pruitt’s diligent fanaticism.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 18 May 2018
• Vajpayee's supporters saw him as a skilled politician who managed to avoid fanaticism, a man who refused to see the world in black and white.
  — Ashok Sharma, Fox News, 16 Aug. 2018
• What the protesters are putting on display is their own recklessness and fanaticism.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 25 Oct. 2022
• There’s a type of fanaticism that happens around people of strong, unadulterated beliefs, and that’s what has happened with him.
  — New York Times, 21 Dec. 2020
• Even Barack Obama, who inspired his own feverish fanaticism among fans, never reached those heights.
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024