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Zealous in sentence

61 examples of Zealous in a sentence

The local archbishop Cyril had steadily gained political power, commanding zealous militias of Christian monks to destroy pagan temples and harass the Jewish population.
The Church, while still under the zealous influence of the Spanish Inquisition, would allow Juana to retain her independence and respectability while remaining unmarried.
Renee Zellweger plays the part of a zealous reporter willing to do whatever for the story.
The fourth one had to be that zealous dork that Clarie claimed as a boyfriend.
The typical characters were present including the zealous jock and nerd (glasses included).
Walken is over the top as a zealous competitor of Molina in the undertaking business, trying to bring a new style to an old Welsh town.
One solid acting turn appears among this slag: Stan Abe as a zealous FBI agent.
It tries too hard to be funny in some places (the daughters over zealous cooking attempts), over reaches in others (the scene where they clean up someone's yard, so he agrees to join the team) and has some scenes that, while mildly interesting, are really just filler (all the work scene's).
Kol(Ross Hagen)is an intergalactic bad guy that escapes being vaporised by an over zealous spaceship commander(Jan-Michael Vincent).
Often bursting into song or dancing a few steps, the capricious Steckert gradually gains the trust and affection of his captive and, as police close in for an inevitable showdown, the tethered pair are seen to be a great deal alike in their responses to forms of rejection, as discerned by a psychiatrist (Lindsay Wagner) assigned to aid a zealous police lieutenant (James Coburn) who is in charge of the manhunt for Steckert and his "prisoner".
The fact is, this entire family is plainly and perpetually afflicted and overcome by an extremely zealous and candid cupid in all of their lives.
I am a zealous Al Brook fan.
Flash Gordon resembles a zealous fitness fanatic as he traverses space dressed in lycra and using what appears to be some sort of treadmill as his main form of transportation.
I'm sure these people in Japan are as zealous as they seem in this film.
Martin plays his role with great aplomb; he receives fine support from Ward, Reni Santoni as zealous police chief Carlos Rodriguez, and Reiner as nefarious Nazi villain Field Marshall Von Kluck.
It was blissfully short,but,quite frankly,this low grade tripe is just 83 minutes too long.The whole thing is just so amateur and over zealous it winds up a self indulgent mess ,serving as a poor mistake which headed in one direction,then went one cropper the other way.
The authorities send a dedicated, tenacious and zealous Intelligence Officer, Major Grau (Omar Sharif) to investigate.
In view of the possibility that Georgia recently executed an innocent man, it is particularly ironic that the South’s voters are America’s most zealous in their efforts to protect innocent human life – as long as that life is still inside the womb, or is that of a person who, suffering from a terminal illness, seeks a doctor’s assistance in order to die when he or she wants.
Europe also lacks a zealous prosecutorial/investigative body that can hold tech companies to account.
If restrictions on involuntary commitment to prevent crime are eased, zealous prosecutors could circumvent civil liberties.
Ironically, America, long a zealous advocate of market fundamentalism, developed according to its own “Third Way.”US industry grew behind tariff walls.
Of course, only a minority of zealous Muslims espouses political violence, and only a tiny number of Muslim professionals set off bombs.
But there is no doubt that zealous anti-capitalism has sometimes veered into anti-Semitism on the left.
Because many leftists identified themselves as warriors against racism, they could not possibly see themselves as anti-Semitic, no matter how zealous their opposition to “the Zionists.”
On one hand, universities are abiding by long-standing agreements with government; on the other, they face zealous reformers who seek market-based solutions that stress competition among institutions, encourage staff and student mobility, and emphasize student-centered learning.
The dangers of zealous anti-Semitic attacks on Israel are obvious.
They are telling everyone around them that they are more zealous and meticulous in their religious observance than those who confine their religiosity to private life.
Italian prosecutors seem zealous to make those who looted Parmalat pay a similar price.
It also allows easier contact with fringe groups, such as anti-globalization protesters and the most zealous greens.
He is not so much a product of zealous imams from rural Morocco as of the West's information society.
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