How to Use fanaticism in a Sentence

fanaticism

noun
  • But there is a point at which belief can tip over into fanaticism.
    — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Hate or fanaticism can end a life in an instant, hundreds of yards from the victim.
    — Gregory P. Magarian, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Bezos is unabashed in his fanaticism for Star Trek and its many spin-offs.
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2019
  • So much for old gods and fanaticism, then, this new Floki has embraced a gentler way.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2021
  • But through it all, somehow, my fanaticism remained, even deepened.
    — Michael MacCambridge, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024
  • He was arrested by special agents of the regime — men known for their extremism and fanaticism.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 8 Mar. 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
  • What the protesters are putting on display is their own recklessness and fanaticism.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 25 Oct. 2022
  • There’s something about Bruce Springsteen that breeds a certain kind of fanaticism.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 24 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • In this lies a very instructive portion of his propaganda and of his fanaticism.
    — Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
  • 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
  • And, at the very least, doubt is the antidote to dogma and fanaticism and reductionism.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • As teased previously, there's a thin line between fighting for the greater good and religious fanaticism in the name of peace.
    — Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Even Barack Obama, who inspired his own feverish fanaticism among fans, never reached those heights.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Almost worse, though, is how this anti-science fanaticism is perverting the meaning of the concept of freedom.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 28 June 2021
  • There’s almost a fanaticism of the LIME customer that has endured.
    — Ron Hurtibise, Sun-Sentinel.com, 28 Apr. 2017
  • The more blanks that theater can fill in, the better, about the precarious fates of hapless souls living with religious fanaticism.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 6 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
  • 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
  • The movie’s incessant urge to psychoanalyze John’s fanaticism could have stopped at the boot camp sequence.
    — Natalia Winkelman, IndieWire, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Toll hit on many of the same themes, outlining the fanaticism of the Japanese military and threats of a coup if their leaders tried to pursue peace.
    — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 7 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • The Maltese capital scores 100 on the wellness index thanks to its health and fitness fanaticism.
    — Debbi Kickham, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021

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