How To Use Eagerness In A Sentence

Commissioned in 1963 to make a film about America's first successful quintuplet birth, Leacock and Joyce Chopra captured the quints' mother's anxiety at her sudden celebrity and the surrounding South Dakota community's eagerness to cash in on it. The Man Who Held Up a Mirror to America
Finding the swiftest pursuer close upon his heels, he threw off, first his blanket, then his silver-laced coat and belt of peag, by which his enemies knew him to be Canonchet, and redoubled the eagerness of pursuit. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
Chook! she was crying, and the dogs whined and yelped in eagerness of desire and effort to overtake Big THE RACE FOR NUMBER ONE
This was one reason for their eagerness to stress the roots of the police in ancient traditions of communal self-policing.
But that night a new way seemed to open to me, and in my eagerness I awoke Charley from a sound sleep. DEMETRIOS CONTOS

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We are unjust people (having imaginary arguments strikes me as a bit lacking in proportion, not so mention meagerness of world), and so we are continually confused into failing to give unto each thing its due. Fairness and Justice « Unknowing
Their eagerness to present a more palatable Golwalkar was also evident when they went in for presenting a 'filmy' version of Golwalkar. Kafila
The next rains are not expected until April, by which time the meagerness of the harvest will be felt intensely by the people living in this region -- there will, once again, be hunger and starvation. David Weiss: Gold -- the Color of Impending Starvation
With a strange combination of excitement, anxiety and eagerness, I rushed toward him as I saw him outside the gate at the airport.
In the end, due to the meagerness of both our resources and our carpentry skills, we settled on a balance constructed of wood and a precariously balanced wire hanger.
His eagerness will not avail against the fitness and skill of his opponent.
She smiled at the eagerness that faded to disappointment.
And Maren Le Moyne -- venturer of the venturers, flame of fire among them, urger, inspirer, and moral leader, a living pillar before them in her eagerness -- must needs curb her soul in bonds of patience and wait at Fort de Seviere for another spring. The Maid of the Whispering Hills
And it appalls me that people who claim for their views the authority of science routinely and arbitrarily insist on a brutally reductionist notion of what a human being is, what the human mind is, that justifies as inevitable every sort of meagerness and rapacity. Marilynne Robinson: Religion, Science and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
Besides its spot-on timeliness, "Outsourced" is a delightful comedy for how it deftly harvests laughs from the inevitable culture clash, from Todd's overeagerness to bridge the gap, and from the innate silliness of the company's product line (whoopee cushions, foam fingers and the like). 2010 Fall TV Lineup: 10 New Shows Worth Checking Out
He acted, indeed, as if he quite enjoyed it -- though he was careful not to show it too ardently: he had discovered that Mrs. Polly had for so long been Miss Polly that she was inclined to retreat in a panic and dub her ministrations "silly," if they were received with too much notice and eagerness. Pollyanna Grows Up
There is so little decent service in town that if we start condemning good service because it's a titch too eager, well, if we start condemning eagerness, we risk losing any population of beavers that might set up shop here.
Her voice trembled and broke at times, but she consistently looked upon Angie's face with eagerness.
Britney felt that as Matt had expressed his eagerness to get the 'showmance' couple out of the house, he should have directly put them on the block: "I agree, he should have put at least one of them up. All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News
But what shall we do with our inner Fire, our inner Urge, our inner Intensity to surpass all my limitations, all our animal wildness that makes us slaves, our unquenched eagerness to surpass all darkness and ignorance, and our askesis to receive the Help of any higher Power in our difficulties, in our sufferings and in the matters of death and diseases? Should we then go back to the caves! Can we stop Evolution?
Seiffmilts, in his great work concerning the divine order and regularity in the destiny of the human race, has a chapter entitled a confutation of this idea; I read it with great eagerness, and found therein that this idea militated against the glory and goodness of God, and must therefore be false, -- but further confutation found I none! Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
Thomas Wolfe talked about the " ghost of the old eagerness.
The beginner must especially learn that the "good intention" to serve the case and the so-called excusing "eagerness to do one's duty," by which little lies are sometimes justified, have absolutely no worth. Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
I shall await your answer to my letter with eagerness.
Cruelly, it is his very kindness and thoughtfulness, his puppyish overeagerness to please, that is his downfall. Times, Sunday Times
they showed no eagerness to spread the gospel
Never mind that her eagerness to hunt animals, oppose the preservation of polar bears, deny the threat of global warming, and endorse a sport as violent as ice hockey all connote the opposite of self-transcendency. Aimee Liu: Why the Political is Personal(ity)
What we call eagerness, enthusiasm, passion, refers to the intensity of an instinct, wish, desire or purpose. The Foundations of Personality
The medical profession's eagerness for scientific advance had impaled it on the horns of a dilemma, forcing an unnatural choice between science and morality.
How it was, that in such a fighting country, old Kasm continued at this dangerous business, can only be understood, by those who know the entire readiness - nay, eagerness of the old gentleman, to do reason to all serious inquirers; - and one or two results which happened some years before the time I am writing of, to say nothing of some traditions in the army, convinced the public, that his practice was as sharp at the small sword as at the cut and thrust of professional digladiation. The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches,
His eagerness will not avail against the fitness and skill of his opponent.
He acted, indeed, as if he quite enjoyed it-though he was careful not to show it too ardently: he had discovered that Mrs. Polly had for so long been Miss Polly that she was inclined to retreat in a panic and dub her ministrations "silly," if they were received with too much notice and eagerness. Pollyanna Grows Up
The casing will survive a fair amount of pressure, but overeagerness may result in misshapen or even ruptured links. Stefan Beck: What Deaner Was Talkin' About: Sausage King, R.I.P.
We have already animadverted on the extraordinary eagerness of the first Roman to occupy Britain.
But it may perhaps have been a matter almost of indifference to him, till you undertook its defence; then make it of consequence by rising in eagerness, in proportion to the insignificance of your object; if he can draw consequences, this will be an excellent lesson: if you are so tender of blame in the veriest trifles, how impeachable must you be in matters of importance! Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which is Added, An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification
I shall await your answer to my letter with eagerness.
I shall await your answer to my letter with eagerness.
The gymnasiarch stands watchfully by, swinging his cane to smite painfully whoever, in over eagerness, breaks away before the signal. A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life
(Humphrey's eagerness to "repopulate" the area with Kate becomes a running joke throughout; though these gags should all sail safely above the heads of the pic's target demo, they feel unnecessary all the same, and surely meant the difference between a G and PG rating.) Variety.com
It has even created a kind of ideology, of which other countries have competed to partake: just look at the eagerness with which Australian coaches have been headhunted and academies inaugurated.
A sound of craving and eagerness that had nothing articulate in it but blood.
Whether an analyst points to the 27.6 percent of first-choice votes or the 28.4 percent of the total vote, the meagerness of his plurality is obvious.
4 Where that false couple were full closely ment full > very, exceedingly ment > joined; united sexually (pa.ppl. of "meng") 5 In wanton lust and lewd embracement: embracement > embrace, embraces; willing acceptance, _hence: _ eagerness The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
This is indicative of an official willingness - nay, an active eagerness - here in Ireland to embrace the change that is undoubtedly on the way in this entire area.
That all changed when, in her early fifties, Wilke's narcissism underwent the most dramatic conversion with her body's consumpton by disease, and audiences witnessed her youthful eagerness to show off her beauty proving itself to be but preparation for Wilke's unhesitating display of her own demise and death in a wholly unsentimental, even stoic art. G. Roger Denson: "Old," "Crazy" and "Hysterical." Is That All There Is?
She waited for my answer this time, and something in the eagerness of her expression begged me to play up to her lead. The Jervaise Comedy
You have the gifts of perception, extended vision, insight, and intuition and display an eagerness to display your full creative expression.
William ran for a pannikin, and taking out the bung, poured some water out of the barrico and gave it to Ready, who drank it with eagerness. Masterman Ready The Wreck of the "Pacific"
Lack of patience, overeagerness, the concession of unnecessary penalties; all are areas that can be fixed. Times, Sunday Times
What Don likes best about Finley is his eagerness to learn.
Their heads were bent forward, they were animated by a suppressed eagerness, their eyes flashed avariciously. THE HOUSE OF MAPUHI
I glanced over and almost leapt out of my skin to see Will being wheeled into the room in a blue hospital wheelchair, a look of martyred boredom on his face, mingled with a sneaky eagerness and a hint of shame.
He sprang to the telephone with unwonted eagerness.
His overeagerness and aggressive driving style are costing him and his team points. Times, Sunday Times
I missed the excited talk of last year where our eagerness and innocent naivety overruled our sense of logic and sensibility.
The Libya campaign also exposed the meagerness of European weapon stockpiles. The Lesson of Libya
As the discerning stare of the procuress suggests, the eagerness of the suitor is by no means matched by his torpid purchase.
Factors that may lead to canine error are similar to those that cause humans to err in the workplace: fatigue and over-eagerness to please the boss.
I shall await your answer to my letter with eagerness.
But a restless eagerness for knowledge urged me farther: I lighted upon the history of ancient literature, and from that fell into an encyclopaedism, in which I hastily read Gessner's Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life
In the end, Mr Boehner left the president waiting at the altar-but not before Mr Obama's eagerness for the bargain had endowed the idea of haggling over the debt ceiling with a legitimacy it did not deserve. The Economist: Daily news and views
In her eagerness to serve her husband, and in perfect innocence of the legal aspect of her act, she does not give the matter much thought, except for her anxiety to shield him from any emergency that may call upon him to perform the miracle in her behalf.
From where I sit, that chimes with the man, capturing nicely what seems to be a prickly earnestness and an eagerness to convert everyone to his way of thinking.
He stopped and regarded her, all of an intentness and eagerness, physically expressed, that slowly faded out of him as she turned her head and gazed back at the camp. The Bondage
Seiffmilts, [2] in his great work concerning the divine order and regularity in the destiny of the human race, has a chapter entitled a confutation of this idea; I read it with great eagerness, and found therein that this idea militated against the glory and goodness of God, and must therefore be false, -- but further confutation found I none! Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1.
The father and mother sat -- not side by side, in that propinquity which is so sweet, when every breath, every touch of the beloved's garment gives pleasure; they sat one at each corner of the table, engrossed in their several occupations; reading with an uncommunicative eagerness, and sewing in unbroken silence. Olive A Novel
Further obfuscation is caused by Sherry's eagerness to obtrude himself.
Only great eagerness to learn, on the part of the people, will make it possible to overcome immense difficulties here.
A loss of nerve can manifest itself in hesitation, but just as often it can show itself in overeagerness. Times, Sunday Times
Everyone waited with eagerness for the committee's findings and recommendations.
He spoke with great swiftness, the words tumbling over one another, not with eagerness, but rather with a kind of supercilious carelessness. The Cathedral
The headman reached out as if to grasp the major's arm before he remembered himself and snatched his hand back, but his pathetic eagerness was plain to see.
The medical profession's eagerness for scientific advance had impaled it on the horns of a dilemma, forcing an unnatural choice between science and morality.
Finding the swiftest pursuer close upon his heels, he threw off, first his blanket, then his silver-laced coat and belt of peag, by which his enemies knew him to be Canonchet and redoubled the eagerness of pursuit. The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon
Fräulein West viewed his eagerness, so uncharacteristic of most visiting researchers, with some concern and withdrew to join her cat. WALL GAMES
His eyes shone with an eagerness and joy that he didn't try to hide.
King Bors made them ready, and dressed their shields and harness, and they were so courageous that many knights shook and bevered for eagerness. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
The stewards began preparing breakfast with that matutinal eagerness which they always show. The Kickleburys on the Rhine
How 'chaffy' and frivolous this gay world of London appeared to these first Publishers, consumed with the burning eagerness of their mission, the following description shows. A Book of Quaker Saints
President Obama's overeagerness to withdraw U.S. forces from both Iraq and Afghanistan will also lead to unnecessary tragedy. Haste Makes ... Defeat
I get the impression that Darcy Burner really believes that eagerness is a substitute for depth. Sound Politics: Darcy Burner, the publicity-shy candidate
His eagerness will not avail against the fitness and skill of his opponent.
The medical profession's eagerness for scientific advance had impaled it on the horns of a dilemma, forcing an unnatural choice between science and morality.
Well, he drew a chair close to mine; and, after again enquiring how I did, said, in a low voice, You will pardon me, Miss Anville, if the eagerness I feel to vindicate myself, induces me to snatch this opportunity of making sincere acknowledgments for the impertinence with which I tormented you at the last ridotto. Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
From the start, the enthusiasm and eagerness of the coaches had been nothing less than mind-blowing.
But this blond himbo's eagerness to hog credit for the Mystery Gang's success prompts an acrimonious breakup.
With eagerness one turns toward the east, with angry impatience one marks the unchequered darkness; the crowing of a cock, that sound of glee during day-time, comes wailing and untuneable — the creaking of rafters, and slight stir of invisible insect is heard and felt as the signal and type of desolation. The Last Man
They are still on the lookout, but they have definitely reduced the intensity and eagerness to recruit.
Part of the problem has been the overeagerness of McDonald's franchisees to start selling Smoothies. McDonald's Cuts Aggressive Smoothie Promos Ahead of U.S. Launch
In his eagerness to set fire to the countryside, he posted only a small guard to hold the Cilician Gates. Alexander the Great
Although Johanna is aware of the meagerness of Georgia's allowance, she feels that the recent precipitous expansion of the neighborhood doll-housing market, coupled with the effects of informational asymmetries—namely, that Georgia can't really add yet—are enough to justify the risk. Report on the Recent Piggybanking Crisis
On the other hand, Mr. Pitt and his party, in their eagerness for place, did not hesitate to avail themselves of the ambidexterous and unworthy trick of representing the India Bill to the people, as a Tory plan for the increase of Royal influence, and to the Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01
Schultz says that every year for the past five years, one third of all existing stores were "cannibalized" by new stores built in close proximity, a sign of its eagerness to make its $2-per-cup-of-coffee lifestyle as accessible as possible. GRANDE PLANS
The medical profession's eagerness for scientific advance had impaled it on the horns of a dilemma, forcing an unnatural choice between science and morality.
For a while, the seif-centred members of celebrity circles were falling over themselves in their eagerness to jump on the bandwagon.
Then he jumped off the veranda and set off down the rutty road, full of eagerness to show Tacroy the town. THE LIVES OF CHRISTOPHER CHANT
The meagerness of the UK's benefits was never policy.
-- French Tr. [34] Literally the passage would run, "Feed me, I pray thee, with that red, that read," the word pottage being understood. "the repetition of the epithet, and the omission of the substantive, indicated the extreme haste and eagerness of the asker. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2
He blows off his steam with such an eagerness that he forgets for a time, or nearly forgets, his cacography.
These situations reveal the meagerness of my character. VII
As usual these chains, with their eagerness to pay over the odds, will force up rents so that small businesses are squeezed out.
As with you, their over-the-top bloviating for true believers is matched only by an eagerness to please their new corporate paymasters.
The eagerness to arrive at a better understanding of where the others come from, a deliberate attempt to appreciate our differences and a thirst for freedom from our ignorance will be further stepping stones to true redemption.
Fifteen minutes of silence passed, the blind man as if carven of stone, the dog, trembling with eagerness under the articulate touch of his fingers, obeying the bidding to make no sound. CHAPTER XVIII
Whether any people upon earth shew a more early zeal for the service of their country, greater eagerness to bear a part in the legislature, or a more general parturiency with respect to politics and public counsels? Querist
Though he missed her dearly, he accepted his new role and took to it with eagerness and dedication.
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900)
The amount of money a worker is remunerated for carrying out specific tasks has more to do with market conditions, such as a skill shortage and the employer's eagerness to attract that skill, than the performance of the person in that role.
He has an amazing power of recall and an eagerness to state his case.
And aside from a decent gag here and there (Duplass 'wife's eagerness to try and conceive a baby, even when she's not speaking to him), the script feels about ten re-writes short of being filmable. Sundance Review: ‘Humpday’ » MTV Movies Blog
You sense that staff morale is high and the eagerness to please is palpable.
Between me and the light, the better to see us, a lad had climbed on to a high ledge, close against the luxurious overhanging foliage – all lit up from the dying glow – of the precipitous rock, and, wearing only a red loin-cloth on his shining dusky skin, stretched forward in eagerness, quite unconscious of his graceful poise. Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago
His tendency to portray humans as appetitive beasts flatters our present eagerness to explain every aspect of human conduct in biological terms. Real Government Efficiency
I said "unvarying" but gradually, as my eagerness to go to Delectica increased, I found it impossible to concentrate on my work because all I could think about was my doughnut and coffee, and so I started having my elevenses earlier and earlier until I ended up skipping breakfast and having my elevenses at nine. The Guardian World News
But in an alternate cast the younger Matthew Renko performed with an eagerness and focus that overrode his occasional technical shortcomings. A Company in Progress
Her eagerness, the alacrity with which she pressed herself against him, suggested she'd forgotten every maidenly precept she'd ever learned. DEVIL'S BRIDE
[E] asy access to guns and a willingness, even an eagerness, to settle disputes with them, particularly among young people. Archive 2007-03-01
It combines his lapidary style with considerable learning and eagerness.
In their eagerness to surpass their rivals, friendly competition between fire companies deteriorated into daily skirmishes and riots between gangs of dandies and rowdies.
Her eagerness, the alacrity with which she pressed herself against him, suggested she'd forgotten every maidenly precept she'd ever learned. DEVIL'S BRIDE
We get an idea of the kind of imperial authority which attached to Voltaire's judgment, from the eagerness with which Turgot sought, without revealing his name, an opinion from Ferney as to the worth of a translation with which he lightened the heavy burden of his intendance at Limoges, a translation of the "Eclogues" and fourth book of the "Æneid" into French metric verse. Voltaire
Ironically, what might be an overeagerness to avoid panicking citizens ends up insulting their intelligence or making them radically sceptical, even cynical, about official assurances.
The Service Marketeer, who is all eagerness and enthusiasm, is a delight for the customer.
He amazes me with his quickness and eagerness to learn.
But her eyes continued movelessly fixed on the face even after she knew it was the face of her brother, and the eyes of the face kept staring back into hers through the glass with such a look of concentrated eagerness that they seemed no more organs of vision, but caves of hunger, nor was there a movement of the lips towards speech. Thomas Wingfold, Curate V1
The eagerness and competitiveness seen at all quiz events were evident here too.
The eagerness almost frightened Anna off, but she also found it incredibly sweet.
a spirit of "overeagerness" to ride the wave of what they saw as a more lucrative crop. ANC Daily News Briefing
In an odd way, the eagerness of existential aliens in both plays to forge a bond with the official Venetian alien serves to underscore an unarticulated affinity felt between two sets of men.
Anecdotes" and of "Polymetis," affords a curious picture of the eagerness evinced by James and his wife, during the infancy of their son, to ingraft his infant image on the memory, and affections of the Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.
Carlyle rubbished talk of retirement immediately after suffering the injury, and he has reiterated his eagerness to return to action.
I certainly don't think that all Western IE roots are to be reassigned to the Aegean family, but I'm reasonably sure that in our ignorance of Minoan and related languages, Minoan history and "Pelasgian" substrate in Greek, there is definitely a noteworthy portion of words stemming from the eastern Mediterranean that are misassigned to PIE in overeagerness, thereby obscuring the linguistic past, exaggerating the importance of one group over many others. Archive 2010-03-01
Recite the Holy Qur'an with eagerness and fervour and put all your heart and soul in the recitation.
She might guess at my eagerness, but then, that's practically a hallmark of unpublished authors.
In all these, the common denominator is the willingness, eagerness, or desperation to eschew all pretense of privacy, discretion, decorum, and personal space to expose mind, body and soul in any and all ways possible the sleazier, more embarrassing or self-immolating, the better! Lorraine Devon Wilke: You're Not Keeping Up With The Kardashians Either
Michael it was, less travelled in the world than Jerry, by nature not so self-controlled, who threw the play-acting of dignity to the wind, and, with shrill whinings of emotion, with body-wrigglings of delight, flashed out his tongue of love and shouldered his brother roughly in eagerness to get near to him. CHAPTER XXIV
Our eagerness for capital punishment echoes the mentality of the old slave code.
It is probable that a young man, accustomed to more cheerful society, would have tired of the conversation of so violent an assertor of the ‘boast of heraldry’ as the Baron; but Edward found an agreeable variety in that of Miss Bradwardine, who listened with eagerness to his remarks upon literature, and showed great justness of taste in her answers. Waverley
They are also taught spatial and language skills and, accrediting it to their ‘ability and eagerness to learn’, the SABT says all present students can now speak English.
And one does not find in old people, whose memory of the past is clear, while their recollection of the present grows dim, any sense of pathos, but rather of pride and eagerness about recalling the minutest details of the vanished days. Joyous Gard
Recite the Holy Qur'an with eagerness and fervour and put all your heart and soul in the recitation.
It can't be easy for people to leave home and come to a new place, even when the people in the new place are full of altruism and eagerness to help.
èclaircissement, explanation, declaration. eilding, fuel. empressement, eagerness. en croupe, behind the saddle. enfant trouvè, foundling. es spuckt do it haunts there. et puis, and then. ex cathedra, from the chair; with authority. exorciso te, I exorcise thee. Glossary
The stranger was expected with all the eagerness of a longing mother.
I suspect, however, that such eagerness can backfire: that the socially unready child will rebel or withdraw.
The eagerness of the employers to recruit new staff, and the pressure of a tight job market on graduates, contribute much to the high job-hopping rate, he said.
Grate liberal amounts of Parmesan on top, making sure your eagerness doesn't cause you to scrape the tips of your fingers on your extra sharp cheese grater.
But I say, you know, I heard shots," Bertie said, in trembling eagerness, for he scented adventure, and adventure that was happily over with. THE TERRIBLE SOLOMONS
When pressed by sometimes testy Congressmen about the meagerness of Soviet disclosures, he replied blandly, "We have been very forthcoming."
Meanwhile right across the Hellespont lay the Kingdom of Syria, and Antiochus III, who ruled that vast land, had shown great eagerness when his distinguished guest, General Hannibal, explained to him how easy it would be to invade Italy and sack the city of Rome. The Story of Mankind
And another thing they learned was that it was easier for one who has gorged at the flesh-pots to content himself with the meagerness of a crust, than for one who has known only the crust. Chapter XXV
It was a bit of overeagerness, maybe, and being a bit hot-tempered.
The couple's career path so far demonstrates their ambition and eagerness to grow their business.
The child, as soon as he can use his limbs, pants for exercise: it is the instinct that seeks future welfare in present gratification; he flies with eagerness from the nursery to the garden; so Nature wisely stimulates to firm the limbs, and brace the whole system of the future man. Letter 177
CNN's Richard Quest – whom the comedian Jeremy Hardy once memorably and accurately described as having a voice "that sounds like he's gargling with his own sick" – is unparalleled when it comes to eagerness and deceptive intelligence. To Americans, Prince William and Kate Middleton are the ultimate celebs
Poole, is plainly seised with one of those maladies that both torture and deform the sufferer; hence, for aught I know, the alteration of his voice; hence the mask and the avoidance of his friends; hence his eagerness to find this drug, by means of which the poor soul retains some hope of ultimate recovery — God grant that he be not deceived! The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
The usual hurry to get to work, usual rush to beat the peak time traffic, and usual eagerness to be part of the rat race.
As marching armies approaching an unfriendly defile in the mountains, accelerate their march, all eagerness to place that perilous passage in their rear, and once more expand in comparative security upon the plain; even so did this vast fleet of whales now seem hurrying forward through the straits; gradually contracting the wings of their semicircle, and swimming on, in one solid, but still crescentic centre. Moby Dick; or the Whale
It was a bit of overeagerness, maybe, and being a bit hot-tempered.
On the contrary, a new Populus poll for the Times has suggested such widespread eagerness to appear generous that avowals of altruism occasionally precede the actual act.
Her sister Colette was selling flowers, like several other young girls, but while for the most part these waited on their customers in silence, she was full of lively talk, and as unblushing in her eagerness to sell as a 'bouquetiere' by profession. The French Immortals Series — Complete
His nervelessness left him to be replaced by a mad and continual eagerness for action. Salammbo
With overeagerness now in check, Keegan is back on the program.
It was a painful blow for Parker, though there was a legitimate case that it was more to do with overeagerness than genuine malice and Rooney's thoughts would probably have been better kept to himself in light of Liverpool's visit to Old Trafford on Saturday. Liverpool 0-0 Tottenham Hotspur | Premier League match report
Fighting Squadron 81 lost five pilots in its first major operation, as much the victim of their own overeagerness as the skill of Japanese pilots. Whirlwind
One patient just recently began collecting social security and was complaining about the meagerness of her payments.
No such circumstance appeared, but as her eyes glanced, with almost phrenzied eagerness, she perceived something shadowy in a remote corner of the floor; and on approaching, discovered what seemed a dreadful hieroglyphic, a mattrass of straw, in which she thought she beheld the death-bed of the miserable recluse; nay more, that the impression it still retained, was that which her form had left there. The Italian
He only is the master who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity; whose pages are perused with eagerness, and in hope of new pleasure are perused again; and whose conclusion is perceived with an eye of sorrow, such as the traveller casts upon departing day. 2009 January 07 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
Its eagerness to expand led to overexpansion.
I chalk it up to a slip of the tongue, perhaps due to overeagerness on McClellan's part to make an interjection.
With eagerness one turns toward the east, with angry impatience one marks the unchequered darkness; the crowing of a cock, that sound of glee during day-time, comes wailing and untuneable — the creaking of rafters, and slight stir of invisible insect is heard and felt as the signal and type of desolation. The Last Man
Wherefore King Ban and King Bors made them ready, and dressed their shields and harness, and they were so courageous that many knights shook and bevered for eagerness. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1
Her curiosity and eagerness outstripped her abilities minute by minute, and she fell over a dozen times a day. THE WHITE DOVE
Hannah demanded, her sword quivering in its eagerness to strike. Pet Peeve
Clergywomen show a willingness (often eagerness) to accept employment in those ministry positions that offer very low pay, few benefits, and few opportunities for advancement.
He expressed in strong terms his annoyance at what he called their impertinence, whilst I could not but laugh at his impatience, as well as at the mortification of the unfortunate pedestrians, whose eagerness to see him, I said, was, in my opinion, highly flattering to him. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
Their silent, concentrated eagerness is a piteous sight, as the cover is slowly lifted from the heavy brass box in which the dice are kept, on the cast of which many of them have staked all they possess. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
The medical profession's eagerness for scientific advance had impaled it on the horns of a dilemma, forcing an unnatural choice between science and morality.
The problem with the Big Bopper was not the lyrics, but the salacious eager, unguilty, almost comandeering tone of his voice as he was enunciating his eagerness to copulate with nubile teens via song lyrics. Big Bopper Update
Our eagerness for capital punishment echoes the mentality of the old slave code.
O'Malley's ability depends largely on his eagerness to dispatch opponents back to the dressing room quickly in sometimes alarming states of dishevelment.
If you shock or disgust her by precipitancy or over-eagerness, or zeal, appreciate it may be the undoing of your wedded bliss and joy.
Then came the sly intimation, the oblique remark, all that sugar-lipped raillery which is fitted for the situation of a man about to do a foolish thing, whether it be to publish or to marry, and that accompanied with the discreet nods and winks of such friends as are in the secret, and the obliging eagerness of others to know all about it. The Surgeon's Daughter
There was a kind of beauty about the experience so elemental and wonderful I cannot tell you-the way the evening sun fell across the lawn, the earnest eagerness of his young stance, the fact that we were doing this most quin-tessentially dad-andson thing, the supreme contentment of just being together-and I couldn't believe that it would ever have occurred to me that finishing an article or writing a book or doing anything at all could be more important and rewarding than this. I'm A Stranger Here Myself
As principal of its primary school, he knew its life intimately, and was depressed by its meagerness.
By degrees I found myself tiptoeing nearer Karl, whether owing to my own eagerness or his dilatoriness I cannot now say. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
Also, McConnell's eagerness to rush the announcement out meant that there was still no detail at the end of last week as to when it would actually kick in.
I never saw or heard a hint of 'backsheesh', nor did I ever give it, on principle and I was always recognised and invited to come again with the greatest eagerness. Letters from the Cape
They are free of the meagerness and nasty tannins that can beset lackluster Bordeaux years. A Refreshing Bordeaux
His overeagerness to prove a ‘scientific’ point has led him to extreme heterodoxy.
Roop saw the look of eagerness on my face, and stuck close on my heels as the crowd jostled us forward.
Emilia's eagerness to divulge her husband's guilt thus illustrates her revenge, her returning ill upon the man who has abused her.
I have heard a temptation to overstress symbolism, or an over-eagerness for closure touted as potential sticking points, and there are moments in this posthumous collection where one feels these may not be wholly invalid criticisms.
Mrs. Powle made them with ceremonious respect, not make believe, and with a certain eagerness which welcomed a diversion from Eleanor's somewhat troublesome agitation. The Old Helmet
Miss Jean heard their voices, first low and awestricken, rising in eagerness and loudness as they got further from the house. Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago

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