I suspect that there's an extra reason besides sheer enthusiasm for distinctive movies, which pushes the nominations further away from the box office: social media has redefined the very notion of popularity, and Academy voters, no less than anyone else, find amplified enthusiasm to be a virtual sort of currency.
Wearing a simple brown-cotton tunic and knee pants, Mr. Holub followed a script carefully timed to juggle traffic, architecture and history, but there was genuine enthusiasm besides.
The result is a muddy, indistinct, un-absorbing film that showcases nothing much besides the same old enthusiasm – maybe even nostalgia – for ancient and obsolete gangster rituals and codes, the very cliches that Whitey Bulger himself exploded.
But in at least a half dozen states besides Colorado, there's renewed enthusiasm for promoting laws that codify the full argument that life begins at conception.
By contrast, defenders argue that, besides promoting party unity and enthusiasm, conventions allow compromise and tend to produce nominees and platforms that represent the political centre rather than the extremes.
Should one accept revelation without using reason to judge whether it is genuine revelation or not, one gets what Locke calls a third principle of assent besides reason and revelation, namely enthusiasm.
Back on that day in Manchester when I was disheartened that the kids could not name a single scientist, I noticed something besides a distinct lack of enthusiasm for the culture of science and technology.
She and Inge had planned to get together and exchange gifts in the afternoon, but neither of them had felt much enthusiasm for it, and, besides, Inge's car wouldn't start.
And besides, the author brings far more natural enthusiasm to sin than to redemption.
