Or that's the effect this Latinate noun has on the young and restless residents of the young and restless country portrayed with zeal in "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson: The Concert Version," the raw but tasty new musical that opened Sunday night at the Public Theater.
Like Gordon Gekko--theartlessess takeover artist portrayed with zeal by Michael Douglas--Stone is obnoxious, overbearing, loud, arrogant, egotistical and hard to fool.
Faulkner portrays their Puritanical zeal in a negative light, focusing on its restrictiveness and aggression, which has caused them to become "deformed" in their struggle against nature.
But I know the sewers and the stench that Mr. Naipaul portrayed with such zeal.
In his zeal to portray nuclear power as our post-carbon panacea, Mr. Thiel belittles the devastation caused by past reactor accidents.
Chapter 1 reviews the place of martyrdom in Jewish tradition and in crusader Europe generally; it seeks to portray the Jews' perplexing zeal for inflicting death on themselves against a more informed background.
Maddow swirled together an array of facts, possible facts, dubious assertions and pure speculation to arrive at conclusions that were based on little more than her zeal to portray Trump as a tool of the Kremlin.
She does not shy from portraying factory slackers and the blind zeal of party hacks, nor from drawing a convincing portrait of Manfred, whose doubts and frustrations drive him to abandon Rita and his country.The new version introduces in English for the first time the introspective, autobiographical voice that became Wolf's signature and strength.
But one senses a pro forma quality to that remark, which is followed by nearly 500 pages portraying Mr. Giuliani as not just a zealot, but so driven by his zeal that he is unaware of his own corruptibility.
So it was with some zeal that Mr. Bush and his aides seized on the chance to portray the vice president as the one giving the industry a break.
