Word: gusto
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...assembles his data. Quoting many languages (including several kinds of Polynesian), he describes the Easter Islanders as they appeared to early explorers. They were rather good-looking people, but by modern standards they were not nice. For one thing, they ate one another-enemies, friends, relatives "and neighbors-with gusto. Parents ate their children; children ate their fathers. They drew the line at mothers...
When a Harvard ballcarrier cut around end, he looked for his best path; when linemen reached the secondary, they looked for the key blocks and executed them with gusto and guts; when a Columbia runner got into our backfield he was met aggressively...
...been used as a vehicle to show what a wonderful Utopia awaits man. In Huxley's hand this form becomes a desperate, overworked and sometimes incoherent jeremiad directed against a destruction-bent, unheeding world. As a satirist, Huxley has neither Swift's passion nor Celine's gusto; he simply can't stand the world any more, not even enough to pillory...
...hasty survey of the Square yesterday revealed that Freshmen are preparing for the Jubilee with gusto. Almost no U-Drive-It cars are left, as reservations stretch in unbroken ranks across the weekend. The Coop reports a sizable rush on formal accessories, with pre-tied bow ties leading...
...first days of our February revolution spontaneously went with them. His speeches from those days were very clear and very radical and, I must say, surprised many of us. His "I go with the people" and "With this new government I am going to govern with gusto" leave no doubt about their meaning. Then the crisis came. His reason told him that he went perhaps too far according to his previous political views. The revolution necessarily was accompanied by much profiteering and injustice which Masaryk loathed so much. Then came the anniversary of his father's birth and Masaryk...