Though Ashmole was "one of the earliest Freemasons, [and] appears from his writings to have been a zealous Rosicrucian", John Gadbury wrote that "Anthony Wood hath falsely called him a Rosicrucian, Whereas no man was further from fostring such follies".
And when Oberst is upset, he doesn't rally a militia of Minutemen or over-zealous officers, he writes a punk-rock song.
Each has its own flavour – from the visionary idealists to the cautious pragmatists, the zealous occupiers of university buildings to the letter writing lobbyists.
John Patrick Shanley is best known these days for writing "Doubt," the drama about pedophilia that a zealous nun thinks she's discovered in a Catholic school.
During the Revolution of 1905, Gippius and her husband became zealous revolutionaries, and she wrote much political verse.
"Gathering my records earlier in my apartment, I'd felt like a zealous rave evangelist," he writes.
"Making everyone who participates in our justice system a potential criminal defendant for conduct that is nothing more than the ordinary tug and pull of litigation risks chilling zealous advocacy," Judge Alex Kozinski wrote in a concurring opinion, signed by four other judges.
Writing is a way to self-possession through memory, and Brown makes much of Flaubert's zealous guardianship of his own heart, space and time.
Its staff, doing the bidding of a zealous Commission member from the area, who later would receive consulting fees for her "environmental" work, generated a letter writing campaign against my "development".
Other agreements have led to players being banned from writing newspaper columns despite having to make themselves available for multiple media opportunities and, according to The Telegraph, the measures have been described as "over-zealous".
Shawn Anthony Levy, writing for The Oregonian, gave the film a B; he praised its eccentricity and said, "It's very hard not to admire its zealous commitment to its ethos".
