Word: eager
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It’s not blindingly original music, to be sure. Some of the songs played could pass for innovative pastiches of several recent 80s-inflected rockers. But Longwave never sounded stale or tired, with melodic strength and dead-on chops that belied their eager, easygoing vibe...
...since a masked actor in ancient Greece was called “hypokrites” for his ability to make audiences believe he was somebody else—kings, czars, congressional candidates, and even that well-known anti-Pharisee spokesman Jesus Christ have carried the word like a sword, eager to slice an opponent for the ultimate political sin: disingenuousness. After all, once people are convinced that their leader is a phony—that the right words are followed by the wrong actions—what can he possibly say to redeem himself...
Following his speech, it was the female athletes’ turn to devour doughnuts. The women’s water polo team, eager to vindicate a last place finish the year before, attended a stomach stretching dinner earlier that evening. Upon a third place finish, the team cheered, “We didn’t come in last this year...
...Bode about this upcoming weekend and his demeanor becomes even more serious, his concentration and drive amplified. He has put his heartbreaking double-overtime loss in last year’s NCAA quarterfinals behind him and is eager to redeem himself...
Sitting in the front row, Houfek began the event by telling the eager students that she would not be critiquing the ideas in the speeches...