Word: enthusiasm
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...this ATC production, the performances ranged from polished to mediocre, but all were visibly united in at least one respect. Each woman onstage seemed passionate about giving voice to the viewpoint her own skit represented and comfortable enough to do so without blushing. And their enthusiasm was contagious: there was laughter aplenty and much audience participation. Indeed, by the second act, Chadryn A. Agpalo of the Graduate School of Education, had coddled her ground-floor audience (along with a few brave souls on the balconies) into loudly chanting “cunt!” The chant was part...
...being so involved in the process of scholarship. This involvement sends a clear message to our students and to the world that scholarship is an exciting vocation and that the world of ideas, which all of us love, is a joyful world that must be cherished and supported. The enthusiasm of our scholar-president for teaching and research sends an unmistakable signal to the world that scholarship is precious and that what we do is important...
...doesn’t really exist. The strength and the weakness of this film may be precisely the extent to which it is seduced by its protagonist’s own rhetoric and rhetorical figures. Benegal doesn’t fail to convey that he has great enthusiasm and passion for the subject he has chosen. But this passion seems, too often, like the zeal of a propagandist and not enough like the reflection of an artist open to the ethical difficulties of the “conflictual tapestry” he has chosen to represent...
Posner considers a slew of world-ending scenarios with REM-style enthusiasm. He reports one scientist’s estimate that there’s a 1 in 100,000 chance of an asteroid smashing earth in any given year and killing a billion people. Alternatively, Posner speculates, “superintelligent robots” might turn on their human creators and “kill us, put us in zoos, or enslave...
...Joan Cusack had no idea and wasn’t a great sport,” Ferrante says. But most Women of the Year, Zeta-Jones included, participate with enthusiasm. And the Pudding members value these personal experiences with the celebrities...