Word: enthusiasm
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...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...
Zeta-Jones threw herself into the roast with unexpected enthusiasm, correcting Gale Rosen and Ferrante’s pronunciation of her name (Zeta has a long ‘e’) and quipping when they tried to catch her off-guard...
...began its efforts to bring Iraqi students to this year’s conference in November by contacting the Kennedy School of Government, according to Genevieve M. Sheehan ’05, director-general of this year’s HNMUN. Although the U.S. embassy in Baghdad responded with enthusiasm, the possibility of a visit was not confirmed until after New Year, and the students only received their visas last week...
Additionally, students were eager to show their enthusiasm for keeping B-boats afloat...