Word: zestful
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...decision debates are said to be merely the excuse for poor preparation and fear of losing. It is true that a decision adds zest to the conclusion of a debate, but in the no-decision debate with Stanford Wednesday night an equally strong conclusion was provided by some twenty members of the audience speaking extemporaneously on the issues raised by the debaters and questioning the speakers. An arbitrary decision as to the winners of the debate might well have inhibited this discussion...
First, the tutor tries, if he can, to communicate to the student some of his own enthusiasm; to awaken in him a zest for intellectual adventure; to help him develop a serious scholarly interest, in the pursuit of which he will want to drive forward under his own power...
...present situation. None of the great powers wished to fight. For this reason they restrained their respective allies. This fact indicates no influx of evangelism into European affairs; the nations simply find war inconvenient at the present moment. Therefore the League has won a great victory. When the zest for battle is again keen, however, there is no need to doubt that a suitable pretext will be found, despite the Pax Helvitiorem...
...Fryn Tennyson Jesse is a woman, the grandniece of the late Alfred, Lord Tennyson and a versatile author in her own right, will expect something unusual from A Pin to See the Peepshow. Readers to whom she is not even a name may be agreeably surprised at the bright zest of its introductory pages, increasingly depressed as its long middle section threatens to turn hopelessly humdrum. But they will do well to persevere. From boring realism the story finally emerges into agonizing, deeply moving life...
...greed. Confident that they have discharged their obligations as citizens these unimportant details have little interest to the electorate. The will of the people has been emphatically expressed and let no man question the wisdom of its decisions. That indeed is the ideal of the democratic state and adds zest to the "great game of politics" in which all feel competent to participate...