Sentence examples for rather zealous from inspiring English sources

Yet those young people who still practise religion tend to do so in rather zealous and culturally conservative ways.

In Mr. Ricardo's classes, though, some students become rather zealous when the instructor yanks an unsuspecting "victim" out of a makeshift airplane seat to use as a hostage.

The move earned him a reputation as a pragmatic rather than zealous enforcer of church teaching.

In a rather over-zealous act of generosity my 15-year-old daughter decided she would buy me a new £700 Samsung mobile phone for Christmas.

While the reveal largely held together for me, there are a couple of loose ends: mainly, the timeline between Joe confronting Sarah about her treachery, having listened to the tape Alan cleaned up in perhaps a rather over-zealous manner.

While many patrons are already turning to the haterwebs to announce their disapproval of Zoo's rather over-zealous response (the clouds dissipated and left a rainbow behind not too long after), their decision follows a trend of organisation, safety, and all-around smooth-operations that were evident throughout the entire first two days.

Favorite Republican: I like the congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul, because I understand what he believes, and he is fearless and civic-minded in his beliefs, rather than personally zealous.

Although some of this conduct may be attributable to winning for the sake of winning, I suspect that it is not motivated by evil, but rather that the zealous prosecutors involved are so convinced of the person's guilt that the temptation to assure a conviction may motivate incidents of misconduct.

And some of their abductors may have been over-zealous, rather than corrupt, cops.

"I prefer a good (neutral) clinician instead of zealous, ideologically motivated people" fifth term student.

Sobchak believes that Putin is not a murderer: political murders that take place in Russia with some regularity are, in her opinion, the work of zealous supporters, rather than the execution of explicit orders.