Word: zeal
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...Summers occasionally bruises an ego or two, we’ll stand by him anyway. Like many, we do not always agree with our president, but we respect and applaud him for his tenacity, zeal, and willingness to stand up for the academy and freedom of thought at his own expense, while using the power of his office to implement initiatives that work to improve our beloved Harvard. There is no crisis of leadership in the president’s office. Thank you, President Summers, for all you have done and continue to do. We’d appreciate...
...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...
...fact that his excessive zeal for America—he keeps a photo of Abraham Lincoln with him—is neither motivated nor explained, Uncle Nino is quickly revealed to be a combination of clichéd ideas rather than a believable character. To get a sense of this think two straight hours of Pinocchio’s Geppetto, with a very bad cocaine problem...
...originally emerged as a light-hearted alternative discourse in the aesthetic lives of black and Latino poor in the 1970s and 1980s Bronx. Hip-hop built on existing disco, reggae and funk genres and served as a creative outlet for those youth who maintained a zeal for life, despite trickle-down economics that never quite trickled down to the bottom. Contrary to the elitist posturing of many “real hip-hop heads,” the first rap songs were not about the problems of ghetto life, but instead were composed of nonsensical rhyming about fun and love...
...These problems were caused primarily by a myopic zeal to be the first news organization to broadcast what was believed to be a new story ... and the rigid and blind defense of the segment after it aired despite numerous indications of its shortcomings...