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zealot

noun as in enthusiast

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  • young Turk
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The only people for whom this is a “tough” message are the climate zealots who remain committed to the idea that rising temperatures are a totalizing emergency.

Original script drafts were even bolder about portraying that activist, who Zemeckis and Gale described as a “church-group type woman,” a dangerously Dark Ages zealot.

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In 1970, a group of young Japanese zealots hoping to ignite a communist revolution hijacked a passenger plane and demanded to be flown to Pyongyang.

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Jumping to the storyline’s present, we watch Isaac torturing one of the religious zealots the Wolves are warring against, known as Seraphites or Scars, by searing the man’s skin with a scorching-hot saucepan.

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On top of that list was Aunt Lydia, the ruthless zealot in charge of the handmaids, played so powerfully by Ann Dowd.

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