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  • adjective Not fanatical

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Examples

  • But he was everything Pearl wanted at this stage: tall, purposeful, and strong, physically confident, passionate about his job, and reassuringly unfanatical in other directions: “he was not at all religious so far as I could see.”

    PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

  • But he was everything Pearl wanted at this stage: tall, purposeful, and strong, physically confident, passionate about his job, and reassuringly unfanatical in other directions: “he was not at all religious so far as I could see.”

    PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

  • Suppose that you were a secular or unfanatical person caught in the net by mistake; you would still find yourself being compelled to pray five times a day (the guards are not permitted to interrupt), to have a Quran in your cell, and to eat food prepared to halal (or Sharia) standards.

    Open Thread 2009

  • So unfanatical was he that he even doubted at times whether the apparition was his father's spirit.

    Cobwebs of Thought Arachne

  • In the troubles of Scotland during the reign of Charles I he used all his influence towards peace, moderation, culture, rational loyalty and unfanatical religion; but his counsels were far too wise for acceptance by either party of the day.

    The Treasury of Sacred Song 1890

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