Sentences with phrase «crusading zeal»

Serkis and screenwriter William Nicholson have approached the project with crusading zeal, which produces some revelatory moments but tends to overdose on its own good intentions.

The comedian and activist might not tell us a lot we didn't already know, but he does so with some humour and panache and a healthy dose of crusading zeal.

It can impel a self - sacrificial dedication to justice, but it may also ignite a crusading zeal against those who do not see things our way.

The author has a decided sympathy for the Huguenots (but also a distaste for Calvinist theology and the crusading zeal it inspired), and although he does not seem to have the same degree of sympathy for the «Catholic party,» his treatment of the seventeenth - century French Catholic revival and of Jansenism's role as a bridge by which significant numbers of leading Huguenots crossed over to Catholicism is masterful.

The atmosphere was charged with anti-Westernism due to the attitude of the European powers toward Turkey and the crusading zeal of the Christian powers.

Not exact matches

While Cameron doesn't share Blair's crusading language or zeal, proof is in actions rather than words — and in the actions that have led to his diminution and quite possibly downfall, he's again proven himself to be the heir to Blair.

The statement reads in part, «Given that President Buhari was initially acclaimed, hailed and idolised by the people as an uncompromising spear - head of a crusade against corruption — taking crusade to mean, not just a war, but a war fought with great passion and zeal — it is significant that, in less than two years, the acclaim is giving way to cynicism about the President's sincerity in the prosecution of the war.

New York's last few attorneys general — Mr. Schneiderman; the current governor, Andrew M. Cuomo; and Eliot Spitzer, who also went on to serve as governor — all approached their work with a crusading, almost angry zeal.