But the eager well-wishers wouldn't be denied, and pressed forward though the barrier.
If few of these young singers sounded conventionally operatic, they compensated with eager, well-prepared and historically informed performances.
Its goal was to bring executives up to speed on the hot new thing in corporate America, the shipment of higher-paying white-collar jobs to countries with eager, well-educated and much lower-paid workers.
On arrival, we were greeted by eager, well-groomed workers in crisp candy-striped uniforms: "Who's next, please!" The service was never once grouchy, curt or impersonal, even when children stared for long moments into the middle distance, trying to choose between strawberry, vanilla and chocolate.. Our orders came up promptly.
N.C.A.A. officials seem eager to, well, play ball.
SERVICE: Eager and well informed, but sometimes disorganized and rushed.
Cruise, a master lip-syncer from way back (Bob Seger, candlestick, dress shirt, no pants), and a famously eager and well prepared performer, was — not surprisingly — quite game.
Other companies are eager as well, and the Seoul government is encouraging them to look to Iraq as a source of new work at a time when business elsewhere is soft.
There is some good old-fashioned Rothian naughtiness about buggering his eager and well-pleased young mistress and, later on, some poignant reflections about the deeper lure of a sexual affair — "the last great outburst of everything" — when age has more or less removed it from reach.
Mr. Murdoch hosted a town hall and fielded a tough question about his company's China strategy from an eager and well-prepared Ms. Deng.
Before the meal is served, before Bush passes off his piece of chocolate cake on an eager if well-fed state representative to his right, Lieutenant Governor Brogan stands up and welcomes everyone, then turns the floor over to the governor.
