Also, Mr. Bush's visit demonstrates anew his eagerness to wrap himself in the kind of symbolism and place himself in the kinds of tableaus that Republicans have often ceded to Democrats.
Mr. Chirac at times looked extremely uncomfortable even as he professed his eagerness to explain himself to the people.
Rather, every stage of his political career has been marked by an eagerness to accommodate himself to existing institutions rather than tear them down or replace them.
In contrast to the younger Miliband's eagerness to associate himself with Hollande-style socialism, the elder Miliband was leery of it.
Staff Sergeant Torres is not a literary type; he relates the details of his ordeal evenly and undramatically, without the pace or practice of an accomplished storyteller but with an evident eagerness to make himself heard.
And it's true: Schultz has an almost fanatical belief in the power of positive thinking, a messianic eagerness to cast himself as the embodiment of the American dream.
If it weren't for Eszterhas's bare-knuckled prose and his willingness, even eagerness, to strip himself buck naked and appear perfectly ridiculous, his book wouldn't amount to much more than an extended bar rant — albeit without the booze, inasmuch as Eszterhas switched from gin to cranberry juice when he accepted Jesus as his personal trainer.
Undoubtedly some found this refusal to kowtow to the current literary hierarchy abrasive, and perceived as intolerable arrogance his eagerness to align himself with the great writers of history and his openly expressed desire to be the voice of a generation.
Richardson, who is now serving his second term as a Democrat in the North Carolina House of Representatives, has the air of a Clintonian good ol' boy: a Southern country-club type with a deep progressive streak and a trial lawyer's eagerness to thrust himself into any situation.*.*
