How To Use Enthusiast In A Sentence
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A former BMX enthusiast, Moore switched to motocross a couple of years ago and he has since taken on gradually more difficult tasks.
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The ice is thick and he is a good deal less enthusiastic when the tip breaks through.
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These are the books written by wine enthusiasts who write them just because they can write.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Saxby Bridge has enthusiastically marketed all sorts of tax effective schemes involving things like tea trees, macadamias, wine and even online lingerie.
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Soon after, I became an enthusiastic convert to the right.
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The spots are designed not only to draw in racing enthusiasts, but also to built brand awareness for the resurgent manufacturer, which positions itself on its race-track heritage and Italian design.
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It was really good fun and they were all keen sailors and enthusiastic.
Times, Sunday Times
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You will soon have a thick, impenetrable hedge to enclose the fast-growing butterfly bush, Buddleia davidii (coppice it annually to promote flowers), or the heavenly blue blooms of enthusiastic ceanothus thrysiflorus.
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I was so enthusiastic about working out in the world again, doing something imaginative that empowered me.
Mothers who Leave
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The same day's paper features a story "Is this a work of art or just any old iron?" about how the writer, broadcaster, doctor and polymath Sir Jonathan Miller asked a passing scrap metal merchant to remove a rusting bath from his front garden -- only to find his three metal sculptures had also been over-enthusiastically taken.
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Four people were gored and several others sustained scrapes and cuts yesterday as large crowds of enthusiasts in the Spanish city of Pamplona ran alongside six fighting bulls in the third bull run of the annual San Fermin festival.
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A group of enthusiastic young inventors have seen their practical, bold and downright wacky ideas come to life, thanks to an inspiring project.
Times, Sunday Times
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The logistics of buses and tour guides in each area is still being sorted out but the idea is rolling out with enthusiasts in each town planting heritage roses around tourism sites.
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Pulling out of Queen's Park, heading towards Maida Vale through the smart terraces, it was all very nice, until at the Harrow Road a big gang of bus enthusiasts came on.
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The answer, of course, lies in a word unfamiliar to as many fitness enthusiasts as it is to the bacchanalian hedonist - moderation.
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However ecstatic expression is performed, its most enthusiastic performance spontaneously tunes and readies us to experience the divine and encounter the mysterium tremendum.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God
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We should therefore not be surprised that the twenties were an enthusiastic display of unchaperoned dating, provocative dress, and exhibitionist behavior.
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It is for logistical rather than symbolic reasons that we are meeting at Old Albanian rugby club in Hertfordshire rather than Twickenham, but it allows Steele to make the point that he hopes to nurture the grassroots as well as the elite game, especially the enthusiastic volunteers that sustain it.
England can win 2015 World Cup, says RFU chief executive John Steele
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For collectors and aviation enthusiasts the early autumn of 1992 produced no less than four major auctions with an accent on matters aeronautical.
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The trivia enthusiast in me thrilled to discover oodles of esoteric tidbits on every page - and not just about salt.
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Next, a scruffy-looking student enthusiastically volunteered to lace him into a straightjacket and secure him with padlocks and chains.
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The first step in scientific map-making, all earlier attempts were more enthusiastic than accurate.
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For the French, the sport borders on a national obsession, but enthusiasts in Stockport are hoping the sound of metal boules on gravel will become a traditional feature of the English summer.
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Whether that is a message that Oregon parents, students, and teachers will embrace enthusiastically remains to be seen.
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As a result, bullfighting was left to the plebeians who in turn enthusiastically took up to its practice, and took it to heart as a symbol of something genuinely Spanish.
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They can be counted on to enthusiastically endorse any Democratic Party idea, regardless of how utterly void of common sense or careful forethought.
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Even the enthusiastic and gleeful performances can't compensate for the utter lameness of it all.
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McKean and other professional word gatherers join enthusiastic amateurs in Wallraff's new book Word Fugitives, which reassures us that taking language seriously needn't always mean being serious about language.
Sniglets and Slithy Toves
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On Saturday mornings throughout the month of September the ancient tradition of yawl sailing was handed down to a new generation of enthusiasts.
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After junior appointments in London he decided to specialise in radiology, and at Harefield he became an enthusiastic member of the cardiac team.
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Listen long enough and you can hear the high-pitched, enthusiastic yip yowl of coyotes; the long, keening howl of the wolves.
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The enthusiasts' tactics include presenting science as theatre, magic tricks and fantasy.
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There is, however, one basic fact, in that over 30 years in the ownership of Leeds City Council the Civic Centre has been allowed to deteriorate with enthusiastic neglect.
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At a time when most vintage warplanes have retired to a quiet life on display in drafty museums, 65-year-old Fifi is embarking on a new mission: giving rides to paying enthusiasts and once again making the air-show rounds, which occasionally feature a simulated atomic-bomb attack.
Owners of the Last B-29 Hope It Doesn
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The visitor, we're told, gazing at the soft-bellied male race enthusiasts in the stands, would be horrified and bellow (if he could indeed speak): "My sons, my sons, why have you forsaken me?
Testosterone Put to the Test
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You don't sound very enthusiastic about the idea.
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His enthusiastic speech ignited the audience.
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In fact, this mini-album seems to entirely results of an enthusiastic outburst of energy, nurtured while the man was regularly deejaying at squatters parties during the nineties.
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That is typical of Bent, uncrushed by disappointment, enthusiastic even in adversity, and not at all ready to give up on his England dream.
Darren Bent: Missing out on World Cup squad hurt like hell
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Our latest publication is a magazine for health enthusiasts.
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All the staff are enthusiastic about the project.
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For naval aircraft enthusiasts, four of the five Corsairs at Duxford got into the air for formation flyovers and individual passes.
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Michael shouted with some enthusiastic joy that seemed to come out of nowhere.
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An enthusiastic and hard-working soldier has been banned from the road after drinking and driving.
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Sooffee is a term originating in Persia, meaning enthusiasts or mystics, or persons distinguished by extraordinary sanctity.
History of the Moors of Spain
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Even the campaign's biggest newspaper enthusiasts are nervous about any accusation of being prejudiced, devoting many column inches to denying charges of homophobia and bigotry before they had even been made.
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The response was just as unenthusiastic in Tokyo and Seoul.
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The society bills its guide as a ‘must-read for all armchair supporters’ and claims that even the most over-enthusiastic spectator should not need to be stretchered off mid-match.
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Most landlords will be more enthusiastic about keeping hold of a good tenant than hiking rents.
Times, Sunday Times
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The dishes are mostly light, with an emphasis on seafood, so the book is a real find for health-conscious food enthusiasts.
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Hordes of participants are expected to turn up for this fun event, from business teams to school teams, and sporting enthusiasts to those just taking part for a lark.
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Automobile enthusiasts, aficionados, and followers could aberrate themselves from the accepted affairs of their accustomed lives and appear calm through this blog.
Auto Parts Online, Auto Parts Online Blog Updating Consumers
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Nearly 6,000 enthusiasts flocked to the Aviation Viewing Park to see the show and a fly-past by the RAF's Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, featuring a Lancaster bomber and Hurricane and Spitfire fighters.
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She was able to tell them that he was an unenthusiastic convert to Shintoism. He retained his Buddhist beliefs to the extent that he forbade his servants to kill flies.
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James Cook a more enthusiastic flogger than Bligh, the author notes, but Bligh had been, I think, over-promoted.
Bounteous Misperceptions
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Don Alfredo shakes my hand unenthusiastically and looks at me with an arching glance.
Down and Delirious in Mexico City
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Mr. Fernández, the great-nephew of one of the company's founders, is also a soccer enthusiast and father of five.
Corona Brewer Drinks to Family Business
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We continue to be stockholders and enthusiastically support Andreas and the leadership he is providing.
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I was so enthusiastic about working out in the world again, doing something imaginative that empowered me.
Mothers who Leave
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She arrived to an enthusiastic ovation and spoke, as she almost always does, quite extemporaneously.
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What is more, the book has generated some genuinely warm and enthusiastic reviews.
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He was also a keen angler and an enthusiastic gardener, with his dahlias and leeks becoming the envy of Hampshire.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their enthusiastic presentation demonstrated their mastery of the subject and of the skills necessary to execute their projects.
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Some of the most enthusiastic business partners have come from high-tech industries.
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Enthusiasts of the baroque will want to sample but making the purchase for a rather short changed disc that plays for well under an hour would be daunting for some.
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Many young people are enthusiastic about IT, but don’t consider it a career path.
Computing
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I am an enthusiastic if occasional golfer: I can hit the ball well with my woods, but have little control over my irons.
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She is an enthusiastic gardener and does most of the work herself, employing help just one day a week.
Times, Sunday Times
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We were enthusiastic about making our practice more evidence based but initially daunted by the potential magnitude of the task.
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Our latest publication is a magazine for health enthusiasts.
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Firearms enthusiasts have shot back at calls for ball bearing guns to be banned.
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Human beatboxing is the traditional folk skill of spitting enthusiastically into a microphone.
Times, Sunday Times
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That big task is being enthusiastically shouldered by Nader-Camejo campaigners across the country.
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It is unlikely that this suggestion will be greeted enthusiastically in the Baltic States.
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But he had to wait for more than a decade before the next score, and even then he ploughed on enthusiastically until last month for the next.
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A roadshow hits the region this week to promote new walking rights which should open up large swathes of land to ramblers and countryside enthusiasts.
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The rally car enthusiast has also shown he is capable of taking the initiative when it matters.
Times, Sunday Times
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Enthusiasts say the extreme sport of kitesurfing, in which a massive wind-powered kite propels a surfer on a small board to defy gravity, can prove more exciting than sex.
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Some experts worry that narrative enthusiasts, in their reluctance to "pathologize" people, will give their problems short shrift.
Rewriting Life Stories
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A Kendal primary school is basking in the warm glow of enthusiastic praise after receiving a flattering report from the judges of a training and development award.
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He has lost all faith in nihilism and is a born-again Linux enthusiast.
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The opposition parties had mostly been unenthusiastic, if not openly hostile, about parity legislation.
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I've been submerged with Guide proofreading, a semi-annual communal exercise in eyestrain and Twizzlers and chocolate-fueled mania; yesterday I couldn't stop calling everyone "enthusiasts" after reading the word one too many times.
Reviews in a word
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Sandor Katz is an author, foodie, and fermentation "experimentalist" and enthusiast.
TreeHugger
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Although most respondents were enthusiastic or supportive of booking, about a quarter were sceptical or not convinced of its value.
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MANY WILDLIFE enthusiasts trek into the rainforest in the western ghats to spot elephants tigers, panthers and a variety of birds.
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We are thrilled that this first test of the market with Turkish Contemporary Art as a separate category on the international auction scene was so well received and attracted such enthusiastic bidding.
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The words that have gained an official entry to the English language, and that sticks out a mile are words like "phwoar" - "expression of enthusiastic or lubricious approval".
The Times of India
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We detected signs that they were less than enthusiastic about the holiday.
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For Bulgarians, it's the chance to practice delivering lines not in your native tongue - and to mingle with drama enthusiasts from other lands.
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We all gave them very warm, loud and enthusiastic Southern California welcome.
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Most of his family are sports enthusiasts, but he's the exception to the rule.
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There are increasing numbers of mountain-biking courses for beginners and enthusiasts alike.
Times, Sunday Times
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Finally, the eccentric and creaking Greek justice system has accepted that Andy and his fellow enthusiasts are innocent.
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It's a lot of fun being this keen and enthusiastic.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the absence of the traditional enemy didn't spoil the fun for assortment of enthusiasts including gunslingers, gamblers, and their womenfolk.
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The most dramatic result of the scientific account was Louis Bertrand Castel's “ocular clavecin,” an elaborate instrument for projecting colors by a key - board, and this enthusiastic French Jesuit spent years attempting to perfect his color symphonies after the initial announcement of the project in 1725.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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In short, the only way to really eliminate conflict of interest, whether real or perceived, is to rely on a group of enthusiasts.
Wine Advocate Writers Spark Ethics Debate - Wall Street Journal | Dr Vino's wine blog
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If I had assured her that she would be torn limb from limb, like an inconvincible aristocrat flaunting abroad during the early days of the French Revolution, she would have grown enthusiastic.
The Mountebank
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Even unenthusiastic vegetable eaters will be won over by the caramelized rounds of giant onion and crescents of bright orange sweet potato.
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The enthusiastic crowd then pelted him with heads of lettuce.
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So, rapid acceleration and braking along with enthusiastic cornering will all scrub more rubber from the tread than unhurried progress.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rome and Madrid were hardly enthusiastic about the trilateral meeting in Berlin, although it was billed as ‘informal.’
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The enthusiast has financed the latest book himself and, based on the previous projects, expects the 1,500 copies printed by publishers Country Books to sell quickly.
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The Choir Director and Piano Accompanist are experienced volunteer musicians and lead this enthusiastic Christian fellowship to perform outstanding and inspiring music.
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‘Oh, it's you,’ he mumbled unenthusiastically.
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It is a fellow wine-lover who enthusiastically wants you to try something they have found, rather than a supercilious guardian of stuffy good taste.
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Nevertheless, there was great satisfaction in cherishing the little waif, for she learned more than she could teach and felt a sense of responsibility which was excellent ballast for her enthusiastic nature.
Rose in Bloom
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With the arrival of pleasure boaters, I cannot see what the attraction will be for people who aren't boating enthusiasts.
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Hundreds of rail enthusiasts have helped to secure the future of a Royal Train carriage at the National Railway Museum in York.
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The girls 'distinctive qualities-from Trini's bubbly self-confidence to Dominique's granitelike demeanor-were abundantly evident in Williams-Garcia's enthusiastic reading.
Publishers Weekly - Children's Books News
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Last year enthusiasts spent $1.5 billion on compact-car accessories, such as moldings (fenders), wings (spoilers) and lighting.
I Love My Car
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For home theater PC enthusiasts, Logitech makes some of the best universal remotes around in their Harmony line … but they cost a pretty penny, which has labeled the line as luxury devices compared to some of the cheaper (and chintzier) universal remotes out there.
Geek.com
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Both groups received a warm enthusiastic welcome from the matron, staff and patients and were thanked for their generosity.
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A Roman soldier's pay, found by a metal detector enthusiast in Norfolk, has been declared treasure trove at an inquest in Diss.
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The election of New Labour in May 1997 was greeted enthusiastically on the Left as presaging trade union resurgence and a renewal of militancy.
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They are also boundlessly enthusiastic about their future.
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Aircraft wheels could yet again be groping tenuously for the asphalt of Kai Tak, Hong Kong's unlamented previous airport, if private pilots and other aviation enthusiasts get their way.
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The true charm of a guayabera lies not in innovative designs but in the classic comfort and versatility that make an enthusiast like 33-year-old Jeff Rosendahl in Los Angeles call his guayabera "the best shirt I own.
Tropical And Topical
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It is unlikely that this suggestion will be greeted enthusiastically in the Baltic States.
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One imagines a “therapy site” where enthusiasts for sex with children are encouraged to post their fantasies, on the hypothesis that fantasy expression gratifies the desire sufficiently to ward off any real-world experiments.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Obscenity Conviction for Adult-to-Adult Noncommercial E-mail About (Fantasy) Sex With Children:
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If the Wizards had lost their home opener Tuesday night, no one would have wanted to highlight John Wall's pre-game dance, the well-traveled Dougie, which is rarely performed as enthusiastically as in Wall's version.
John Wall dances through introductions
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The enthusiasts turn up in kilts and sporrans.
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DOWN in Florida, where good roads often parallel the water for miles at a stretch, aquaplane enthusiasts have invented a new sports thrill.
2008 July
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My buddy enthusiastically pointed out a lobster beneath a ledge, as well as a miniature version that was only about 3cm long!
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From the early Renaissance on, they had been admired and drawn by painters and sculptors and carefully described and cataloged by art enthusiasts and antiquarians.
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Every few years he was rediscovered by an enthusiastic critic or gallery owner, although the success never gelled.
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For example, downtown Frederick, Md., is within driving distance of several shrines for Civil War enthusiasts, including Gettysburg, Antietam and Harper's Ferry.
America's Best Neighborhoods 2010
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She speaks deliberately and methodically, but enthusiastically, with an italic emphasis on seemingly random words.
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This property is most likely to appeal to golfing enthusiasts looking for a modern, high quality home in walk-in condition.
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Now one of the strengths of Libri's Histoire is the large number of quotes from original sources, so it was natural that Libri should be an enthusiastic collector of rare books and manuscripts.
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Can the enthusiast for indeterminacy, ambiguity, undecidability, and the endless play of signifiers be held to conventional standards of clarity?
The Times Literary Supplement
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The sense of forward momentum doesn't quite get as far as it needs to, and an overenthusiastic attack of subsidiary climaxes weaken the major symphonic climax Simpson has written in.
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Outside the front gate, two policemen with an over-enthusiastic sergeant stood and looked at the gnomes, who looked back, curious but still as stone.
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After I read a comic book named Slam Dunk, however, I became enthusiastic about basketball.
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Arriving to an enthusiastic welcome in the nondescript village, he shed his characteristic reserve.
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But at the same time, it is NOT “pointless” to be enthusiastically, tear-jerkingly, unwaveringly “proud” of the “land of your birth” — to the point where people are actually STILL SURPRISED — or even scandalized — when yet another of “our” scandals come to light.
US in Police State Top 10
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How many congenitally unmusical youngsters were seduced into thinking they were congenital geniuses by Peel's enthusiastic, sinusitic, cod-Liverpudlian encouragement?
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Classes or discussion groups on women's writing command an enthusiastic response that is often lacking in mainstream teaching.
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Rail enthusiasts with a cool £1.5m to spare could find themselves owning their own railway - as well as a chunk of steam history.
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Most were enthusiastically ready to keep vlogging for years to come, regardless of what happens to YouTube.
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They are a must for transport and British film-making enthusiasts alike.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the absence of church or priesthood, the execution of the project was left to the uncertainties of lay enthusiasts.
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She is an enthusiastic gardener and does most of the work herself, employing help just one day a week.
Times, Sunday Times
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While the excited and enthusiastic student is very reinforcing to the teacher, the exact ingredients of motivation continue to be highly elusive.
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Suppose a man of great birth and fortune, who in his youth had been an enthusiastic friend of Lord Byron and a jocund companion of George IV.; who had in him an immense degree of lofty romantic sentiment with an equal degree of well-bred worldly cynicism, but who, on account of that admixture, which is so rare, kept
The Parisians — Complete
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Enthusiastic is one word that works, driven is another that can be recommended, there's pugnacious of course, and yet the best one might be ‘expert’.
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He is enthusiastic about pop music.
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However, since the World Cup started on May 31, he has not been enthusiastic about working, especially during the time when the matches are aired on television.
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Is it really the panacea it occasionally claims to be, and can we make a step change in ROI through enthusiastic adoption of novel communication such as Wikis, Tweets and Blogs?
CIMCIG « pwcom 2.0
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We like her and the zesty and enthusiastic way she approaches life seems to have a stimulating effect on those around her.
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In this they had the enthusiastic collaboration of professional media advance teams from both governments.
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You are enthusiastic and spontaneous about life but need to guard against sudden outbursts of anger or love.
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Protagoras 'contemporary, Sophocles, wrote the most enthusiastic proclamation of man's ability to con - trol and transform the world that survives from antiq - uity (Antigone 332-75), yet he closed his encomium with a cautionary reference to the fact that such power can be a mixed blessing.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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government will not be efficient unless the people as a whole accept leadership loyally and enthusiastically
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And as Georgia, clutching a plastic punnet, tugs on her mother's sleeve and begs her to accompany her to the redcurrants, it's clear that the most enthusiastic fruit-pickers live on-site.
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An enthusiastic botanical collector told me that for years he searched far and near for the adder's-tongue fern, till one day he stumbled upon it in a place over which he had long been in the habit of passing.
Birds in the Bush
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The restoration project is the brainchild of railway enthusiasts who have already secured two thirds of the 1 million cost.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's not dangerous, yet togged up in that gear your average enthusiast looks damned menacing.
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To aid me I discussed the idea with a former colleague who was very enthusiastic about the whole thing.
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They will talk of prisons in Greece, of frightful justice systems, and of a nerve-racking ordeal which the enthusiast is never likely to forget.
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In truth, Newport Beach has always drawn a diverse population of sailing enthusiasts and dory fishermen, Gatsby wannabes and dedicated surfers, limo owners and beach-cruiser pedalers.
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You effectively acknowledge this in your report but disregard it in your leader where you give the plan your enthusiastic support.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tyndall was an expert and enthusiastic mountaineer, calculating how high the energy in a ham sandwich would take him; his writings about the alps are suffused with pantheism.
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We also put in a plantsman's garden to appeal to plant enthusiasts.
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Colin followed his father and paternal ancestors in being an enthusiastic amateur botanist.
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Drawn by the smell of petrol and cellulose paint, Angus wandered into a car enthusiast's glory hole.
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Ironically, it is the newly-paved and sprawling five-lane thoroughfares clogged with sightseeing families and truckers laded down with ever more consumer items to choke our landfills, that has over the decades made Cadillac Ranch the Texan Stonehenge for sight-seers and graffiti enthusiasts eager to leave their mark of existence.
G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That
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The Avebury henge and Silbury Hill were the products of enthusiastic volunteers.
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Not necessarily, but even Barrie enthusiasts might hesitate before allowing someone like their idol to look after their own children unchaperoned.
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The military arms enthusiast was given the specialist task of replacing two historic cannon which once stood on the steps of Ashton Town Hall.
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The hotdoggers said wherever they go they receive an enthusiastic response and that the job was excellent for recent college graduates.
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Far from being plugged with a slug of lead, the loser's fumbling fingers have only cost him a little face in front of his fellow fast draw enthusiasts.
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C S Collins An obvious enthusiast, with a strong sense of humour which did not detract from his very informative presentation.
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As multimedia enthusiasts can tell you, a coax connection is not the best choice for image quality, to put it mildly.
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Both men were martial arts enthusiasts.
Times, Sunday Times
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The audience was / were enthusiastic on the opening night of the play.
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Falconry enthusiasts wanting to delve even deeper into the subject can sign up for a course of either one, two or five days.
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It is more like self-help with an enthusiastic cheerleader.
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It is understood that many of the newspapers themselves are less enthusiastic, since readership of supplements is bound to be smaller than that reported for the newspaper as a whole.
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In the back of any fitness enthusiast's mind is a series of attainable and unattainable goals.
Times, Sunday Times
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Which is perhaps why her friends are less enthusiastic that she's here today.
The Sun
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He formed a coterie of opera and ballet lovers who were enthusiastic and loyal.
Times, Sunday Times
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The woman leaning forward in the tea room of the Shelbourne Hotel to pour the photographer some tea is bright-eyed, sparky and enthusiastic.
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She went about the task with the zeal of an enthusiast.
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Hunting and hawking were popular among the gentlemen of early Tudor England because they enjoyed it, but there was more to this interest than the obsession of the enthusiast.
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Beset by such forces, small bones hardly stand a chance, which explains why paleontologists are so enthusiastic about finding a pint-sized predator in 75-million-year-old Canadian rock.
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The movie was enthusiastically received by the reviewers.
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For wholefood enthusiasts, I would recommend buckwheat pasta rather than wholemeal, which I think is rather dull in flavour and texture.
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It also boasts the kind of ending that encourages an ovation from an enthusiastic audience.
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It is also easy to see why enthusiastic young men were desirable to the Army.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘Right away, sir,’ he said more enthusiastically, buzzing for a bellhop to carry their bags and lead them to their room.
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After professing enthusiastic support for reform of the present scorned system, ministers have gone suspiciously quiet.
Times, Sunday Times
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What stays with me as I get older are the off-piste moments from teachers with a little freedom to be iconoclasts or enthusiasts.
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Canyonlands National Park saves most of its highlights for the backcountry enthusiast.
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The missing two points are accredited to the high cost and the irregularity of overclockability (which may result in disappointed enthusiasts).
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I am hoping that having worked my way diligently down the list, the universe is going to reward me by making the people I contact next week excited and enthusiastic about the product.
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Many of them would recognise and greet him enthusiastically as we walked together to and from court.
Times, Sunday Times
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I know not whether it is from the temper of the people, grave and enthusiastic as it certainly is, or from the recollection of the ancient Catholic opinions, when the funeral rites were always considered as a period of festival to the living; but feasting, good cheer, and even inebriety, were, and are, the frequent accompaniments of a Scottish old-fashioned burial.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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Hence perhaps why much is made of the variety of subject matter in Sebald's novels, like a lumber room in a rundown mansion ready for an enthusiast's rummage.
