Here was the boy when he was four years old, in a park, shyly, with puckered forehead, looking away from an eager squirrel, as he would have from any other stranger.
Today, away from the eager vacuity of spin, Alex Salmond turned to a great icon of the 20th century for inspiration.
As soon as we could pry the iPad away from my eager younger cousins, Oma would try things like touching the screen -- lightly but not too lightly, quickly but not too quickly, interacting with one specific icon.
Readers of contemporary poetry who already admire Estes will find this collection insightful, while those not yet familiar with her work will come away from these essays eager to seek out her books.
Critics of the point-based scoring system find it to be overly nitpicking — too weighted toward negativity in taking points away from skaters, too eager to reward competent but lackluster technical proficiency over risk, creativity and originality.
Even as Democrats tiptoed away from the red line, eager to kick the can of Sarin down the road, their own harsh rhetoric haunted them.
But that will just be one more reason this is an issue Republicans want to run away from, and Democrats are eager to talk about.
Ecstatic that they were able to woo Mr. Forbes away from the Republican Party and eager to regain control of the House, leaders of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Democratic National Committee have promised Mr. Forbes that they will do whatever it takes to get him re-elected.
To shy away from "controversy" and be eager to take "offense" is to compromise our principles.
We're miles away from Tobey Maguire's bespectacled, eager chump.
