If you were roaming the streets of New York City or London last night you may have encountered a similar scene: Zealous readers handing out award-winning novels by the boxful.
Over-zealous annotation can irritate the reader, if every occurrence of a common noun is highlighted; but judicious annotation can help non-expert readers better to understand the content of technical documents.
Over the years, I found that whenever writers and readers mentioned Saul Bellow, they became zealous quoters, sharing their spoils rapidly and eagerly.
The reader must decide if his behavior is any more schizoid than that of the zealous sinners or sinning zealots who people this book.
Paul Krugman's over-zealous attacks on Sanders in the New York Times has decimated his own reputation (just look at reader comments), especially for the hundreds of thousands who have seen this scathing video critique of the columnist's suspiciously inconsistent arguments.
Even so, many of today's translations are zealous in their efforts to Anglicize the text and to make it friendly to the contemporary English reader.
They also wrote fake reader's letters to several newspapers, provided scripts for unattributed briefings with journalists, and helped zealous citizens to write misleading ads for the press.
But through zealous research she dispels this mist to a remarkable extent; when she reasons that Pepys "no doubt" did something, a reader has no doubt that he did.
Most were zealous Zionists.
They were overly zealous".
This kind of zealous exercise is usually associated with underground zines, not with The New York Times Book Review, where I'm sure most readers were simply puzzled by Ullman's entangled snit.
