The Dream, who trail the Minnesota Lynx, 1-0, in the best-of-five finals with Game 2 on Tuesday, had been stuck with the best and worst McCoughtry had to offer: a prodigious, zealous player susceptible, by her own admission, to bouts of immaturity.
BERNARD MASCARENHAS An Anonymous Benefactor Bernard Mascarenhas was a zealous bridge player, an executive who had risen steadily up the corporate ladder, and a man who liked to take it easy on weekends with his wife and two kids.
The gags, too, have a fast free-for-all quality, as if they were produced by a zealous Galaga player with his palm down flat on the "fire" button.
Knight also acknowledged remorse for the times that he had been too zealous with his players on the practice floor.
With their midgame adrenaline flowing, their sense of baseball righteousness rising up in them like, well, an ideological crusade taking root inside the mind of a zealous young politician, players can wind up following their principles off a cliff.
There was some superb goalkeeping at both ends, a few over-zealous challenges – Coleman and several of the Wales players thought that the supremely talented Pjanic was fortunate not to be sent off when he brought Jonathan Williams down moments after being booked – and gilt-edged opportunities passed up in front of goal.
Bowser is not such a zealous sports fan that she can name many of the local players but she touts D.C. as the country's #sportscapital on social media, aggressively pursued the Olympics and sometimes takes business meetings at the Verizon Center during basketball and hockey games.
On the other hand, for as many doomsayers that the game seems to inspire, you get as many musings about the bright future of augmented reality, odes to the way it offers players new perspectives on the same old world, or zealous exaltations about how the game is this transcendent force bringing people together.
But the players have not uniformly endorsed the FedEx Cup despite the Tour's zealous promotion of it.
Norquist, a zealous, self-promoting Washington icon who presides over a weekly meeting of top conservative players, has quietly amassed an extraordinary amount of power in the Republican Party without ever being elected to office.
