In this atmosphere of dubious nostalgia and uncertain rebirth, an elderly numbers runner (Burt Lancaster), eager to assert his honor, looks after a gangster's widow (Kate Reid) and tries to help a couple of young people (Robert Joy and Susan Sarandon) make their way.
The children, appropriately eager to assert their autonomy, have an active and fulfilling life at home, and they want to live it.
The photograph evoked the busyness of a bold metropolis eager to assert itself as the world's pre-eminent city.
While this (immature) modus operandi may be expected from a just-graduated trainee, eager to assert his new skills and directive discretion, it simultaneously disrespects and fails to leverage the talents and energies of teammates.
He rests alone, which also seems appropriate for a maverick artist who was always eager to assert his independence.
Zora Neale Hurston on being "colored" at a time when many blacks were eager to assert their mixed racial origins and most whites were still more eager to deny any such thing: "I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief".
Vince was watchful and restrained, desperate not to flirt outside his off-stump (there was just a solitary aberration); meanwhile Ballance was almost skittish, eager to assert to himself as he flicked another ball through midwicket.
Mr. Xi is eager to assert authority over the domestic security agencies and the military, said Ding Xueliang, a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology who has studied corruption in China.
Two regimes, each eager to assert what Crowley and Pavitt call "its superior command of modernity," engaged in a long-running rivalry played out in weapons, skyscrapers, satellites and refrigerators.
