Mr. Samberg's wide smile and eager manner are engaging, but he labors under the misapprehension that he is automatically, innately funny.
At the same time, in a parallel story, her ex-boyfriend Ismaël (Mathieu Amalric), a manic-depressive with bright eyes and the eager manner of a cocky teen-ager, argues merrily with two orderlies who arrive at his apartment to cart him off to the loony bin.
She is an artist whose eager, confident manner on the platform exactly reflects the brightness, control and address in her singing.
Ames is no crusty old salt; at fifty, he has an eager, open manner that seems more executive than warrior, and a master's degree in public administration from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
Ed Miliband "One thing I haven't corrected is 'camel nose'," wrote the now leader of the Labour party in 2005 of an earlier draft of his profile which described him: "Tall, large head on narrow shoulders, sallow complexion, dark hair, camel nose, staring look, effortlessly fluent, supremely confident, eager, boyish manner".
Boyishness and gravitas do not go together, and an eager-beaver manner kills it stone dead.
June 11: James Hunter, a blue-eyed-soul singer from Colchester, England, has a chiselled chin and an eager, polite stage manner.
Durst is a tall, good-looking kid who talks in the eager and earnest manner of do-gooders who, if you're prone to cynicism, can seem laughable in their naïveté.
April 14: James Hunter, a blue-eyed-soul singer from Colchester, England, with a chiselled chin and an eager, polite stage manner, returns to a bygone era with moving originals that evoke, variously, Ben E. King, Ray Charles, Van Morrison, and James Brown.
But although this style can be a useful corrective to the insanely eager-to-please manner of American performers, all that solemn glamour can also become ridiculous.
Rex, a squat, friendly lump of clay with an eager-to-please manner and a slight nervous quaver in his voice, has the appetites of a globe-trotter.
