In an audio recording, Mohammad Deif, commander of Hamas' military wing, said his soldiers were "eager for death".
As he learns about the culture of the Vikings, Athelstan sees how their embrace of their glorious future lives in Valhalla makes them almost eager for death (but not so eager that they fail to fight ferociously over plunder, of course).
Harder to comprehend is the passion of some who are actually eager for her death.
Everyone knows that Helen is eager for Orestes' death so that she and Menelaus can move into the castle as the new rulers.
He laughs off the spiritual vultures eager for a death-bed conversion, and dismisses – but with unfailingly gracious courtesy – the many schadenfreudian prayers for his recovery.
He was eager that Mary Stuart's death should be avenged by an invasion of England, and in 1589 he suffered a short imprisonment for his share in a rising.
Last December, in dismissing the birth-certificate argument as a "canard," Gilbert wrote, "The 'birthers' are the new 'truthers.' " Soon, birther met its counterpart, deather — that is, someone who insists that health care reform will lead to "death panels" eager to pull the plug on "granny".
Freed, perhaps, by his mother's death, he was eager to tell his story, more openly than he ever has.
They were bohemians, romantics, clever and hungry and bright, believers in the wild freedoms that life bestows and which time and death are so eager to unsustain.
Why was Britain's Foreign Office so worried about the "back story" to Tessa's death, and so eager to portray her as a ditsy screwball?
"That will be the last place that we capture," he said, citing fears of civilian casualties and the concentration of Taliban forces and foreign fundamentalist volunteers willing, indeed eager, to fight to the death.
