It was not just entrepreneurial zeal that caused the Pequots to overreach.
Hunter called for consumers to make informed decisions driven by awareness of the creatures in the wild, instead of just a zeal for exotic tastes.
They wanted to outdo one another in zeal just to please him.
"It just shows the zeal with which the C.I.A. operators at that time proceeded," he said.
"It's just the blind zeal for cuts in the discretionary part of the budget, regardless of the consequences," Kind said.
There is an enormous portrait of Gladstone, and a picture of Great Dixter, East Sussex; underneath it is a map of the rail system before the Beeching cuts, a reminder of the post he filled in government with just as much zeal, that of minister of state for transport.
Instead of eating insects, navigating obstacle courses or flaunting their physical charms to woo lonely rich guys, the contestants on Bravo compete, with just as much zeal, to show their good taste and talent in high-status fields like food, fashion and design.
But worse still, in their zeal to just criticize the state, they end up supporting the non-state actors of the opposing camp.
"Maybe she has genuine philanthropic zeal, but maybe she just wants to sell more records.
