Her determination that he must and will live on has an edge of zealotry, but she is gradually worn down by the toll of caring for him single-handed; he refuses to allow carers in to help.
While radical Tories are not quite as impetuous as radical Republicans, there is still a vein of zealotry there that warrants the comparison.
Romney, Gingrich and Santorum all oppose the Obama administration's mandate that employers (except actual churches) cover contraception, but Santorum burns with a special zealotry.
Conservatives and climate science deniers desperately want to make a martyr out of Lomborg, claiming he has been the victim of zealotry and a mob of raging climate campaigners.
Young populations without prospects found comfort in religion, some in the zealotry peddled by the likes of IS.
In several key Senate races, tea-party zealotry has once again saddled the Republican Party with unhelpfully extreme candidates.Both Mr Obama and Mr Romney head to election day trumpeting their moderation.
And once again zealotry seems all too relevant to foreign policy: America would surely not have invaded Iraq and Afghanistan (and be thinking so actively of striking Iran) had 19 young Muslims not attacked New York and Washington.It does not stop there.
Here is the poet-minister in his garden:In this section Days late, dollars short Stories of zealotry Consciously fruitful Come what may The pursuit of evil Funny man Reprints Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
In the past few days Salafists, who preach a version of Islam that harks back to the puritanical zealotry of the early days, have assaulted liberal protesters in Tahrir Square.
Mr Riordan's problem is that the very thing which could bring him victory in November the fact that he is by Republican standards a liberal is a liability at this first stage.Like its fitness freaks and its technology gurus, many of California's Republicans tend to zealotry.
Mao Zedong exploited this: when he wanted to wage his "cultural revolution" against his own party colleagues, he used students fired up with Maoist zealotry to do his dirty work for him.But of all the student-led political movements in China's modern history, it is the one that swept China in 1989, centred in Tiananmen Square, that means most to those taking part in Hong Kong's unrest.
