But, judging from the popular response to Clinterngate, many Americans feel that zealous efforts to stamp it out can be worse.There used to be two constituencies for playing up the sexual indiscretions of politicians.
Still, fair is fair: no woman before Bentley has felt quite zealous enough about what she calls "emancipation through the back door" to write an entire book in its praise.
Some Lithuanians feel that over-zealous foreign Jewish critics put too little store by reconciliation.
He had a fanatical assurance about literature… And my teacher at school felt something comparably zealous… It was conveyed to us that certain books really did matter and that you were involved in some rearguard action for the profound human values in these books.
"Gathering my records earlier in my apartment, I'd felt like a zealous rave evangelist," he writes.
While some experts blame erosion from cola drinking or even zealous tooth brushing, others feel that modern teeth simply don't get the workout that they were designed for.
They make everyone involved feel warm and fuzzy, but if you get over-zealous about these things you end up with an empty party and looking like an up-yourself git.
They are beaten up and raped daily and it's not because they feel bad about themselves or have been got at by some zealous politically correct propaganda.
The danger lies in political appeals that are so zealous that they unsettle Americans with different religious views, making them feel like second-class citizens, or lead to policies coercive toward non-believers.
They have several young men in the family and feel it could have been any one of them killed by an over-zealous police force.
(Do I feel an argument brewing?) The late Mrs Eliot had a well-earned reputation as a zealous Tomist, and her fierce protection of his legacy and copyrights led her to refuse permission to quote from TSE's works even to such luminaries as Martin Rowson and Peter Ackroyd.
