Historians credit this to his zealous personality, his criticism of the church hierarchy, his emphasis on direct experience of God, and some of his unorthodox teachings including his belief that an unordained monk who had the direct experience of God was empowered to absolve others of their sins.
That he has early-warned us of such acerbity cannot set right either the needless assaults on individual postmodernist critics or the zealous iconoclasm directed everywhere at the New Criticism, which has demonstrably contributed so much to his thinking.
Sometimes inviting criticism of their zealous marketing, they pitch via e-mail, make cold calls, arrange luncheons and hold community meetings.
Her zealous emotionalism, together with her outspoken criticisms of the decorous accommodations of the Methodist hierarchy, brought the wrath of conservative churchmen down on White and her husband, who was transferred to a still-less-desirable pastorate.
My point is that Roger was both a zealous defender of the standards of film criticism — as a way of thinking and as a writing discipline that demanded as much knowledge and rigor as any other — and a gracious and generous supporter of anyone who wanted to practice it.
Hudgell added: "Legitimate criticism and debate is suppressed by a zealous desire to cover over incompetence, serious weaknesses and under performance.
Yet if he continues to crackdown on small criticisms and limit the number of candidates, it may only serve to further alienate zealous supporters and Basij military forces and make the regime even weaker from within.
Fairy Tale author Andrew Teverson referred to Belle as Disney's attempt to address "feminist criticism of its representation of women in earlier films," but ultimately criticized the character's curiosity for "extend[ing] only to romance," additionally accusing her of being "a zealous individualist with a pathological hostility to common men and women".
But so intense is the demoralisation of many previously regnant elites that historically self-aware criticism – the fundamental tenet of the Enlightenment – in recent decades has often shaded into fervent self-pity or equally zealous cultural nativism.
