Sentence examples for burning zeal from inspiring English sources

Humboldt's "Personal Narrative," Darwin later wrote, "stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of Natural Science".

In his autobiography (Barlow 1958), Darwin writes that, along with Humboldt's Narrative, Herschel's Introduction (sic) to the Study of Natural Philosophy, first published in 1830 (Herschel 1987), were the two books that he read at Cambridge that "stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of Natural Science".

The act of living that dharma, however, is called tapas or burning zeal.

Ólafsson's poetry, of historical rather than of literary interest, voices his burning zeal for a cultural and political renaissance of Iceland.

Vereide had arrived in America, which he called the "land of the unchained Bible," in 1905, at the age of eighteen, with a burning zeal and uncommon drive.

Inspired with "a burning zeal" to contribute, Darwin planned to visit Tenerife with some classmates after graduation to study natural history in the tropics.

Ed watches her go, burning with zeal.

Miss Garbo, we suspect, would have played it for much greater intensity and depth more abstrusely, perhaps, but for a clearer comprehension of burning scientific zeal.

Soldiers burning with fascist zeal were assassinating government moderates in a bid to rekindle the traditional "spirit" of Nippon.

America's listen to their separate echo-chambers.The addition of inexperienced legislators, burning with missionary zeal, to an already complex system of divided government and separated powers has cast even veteran observers of Congress into a despond.

Meanwhile, in cyberspace, Facebook and Twitter were burning up with revolutionary zeal.