Sentence examples for enthusiastic follower from inspiring English sources

As a usually enthusiastic follower of the Olympics, I am so turned off by the incessant advertising breaks that seem to come every five, six minutes, followed by condescending commentary that seeks to make sensational news out of the most mundane facts, I find tuning in simply unbearable.

It's worth noting that both these stories contain sizable Christian themes: Corden was raised by parents devoted to the Salvation Army ("It's a church, but also a charity that helps many people in need," he explains, helpfully), and Grylls remains an enthusiastic follower of Jesus: a matter, apparently, of being "held, comforted, forgiven, strengthened and loved".

As an enthusiastic follower of Richard Wagner he was to write librettos for Wagnerian-style music dramas.

He fell in love with Christoph Berens' sister, Katharina, but was refused permission to marry her by his friend, on the grounds of his religious conversion; Berens was an enthusiastic follower of the Enlightenment and was nauseated by the more pious manifestations of Hamann's new-found religiosity.

To give but the simplest example, Riemann was an enthusiastic follower of Dirichlet's idea that a function has to be conceived as an arbitrary injective correspondence between numerical values, be it representable by a formula or not; this meant leaving behind the times when a function was defined to be an analytic expression.

At last the Führer addressed his wildly enthusiastic followers: The following morning, 13 September, Chamberlain and the Cabinet were informed by secret service sources that all German embassies had been told that Germany would invade Czechoslovakia on 25 September.

On fan sites for the Harry Potter and "Twilight" series, enthusiastic followers dissect plot lines, argue over their favorite scenes and analyze characters.

His public meetings attract large numbers of enthusiastic followers, who see him as the champion of a pious but modern-minded Islam.

He and his spokesman, Joaquín Navarro-Valls, were brilliant at offering up images of the Pontiff on his endless travels, blessing the faithful and kissing children before throngs of wildly enthusiastic followers from Mexico to Africa and the Philippines.

While the Eurovision Song Contest is derided as a monument to mediocrity and bad taste in some countries, it has legions of enthusiastic followers in others - especially in this year's host country Germany, where 2,500 journalists are covering it.

Such iconic images, collected in the Visions of the Universe exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, are deeply thrilling to young people, who are also the most enthusiastic followers of figures such as Professor Brian Cox.