Sawyer, a former beauty queen and (as Walters notes) aide to Richard Nixon, doesn't have a conventional journalistic résumé, either, but she plays as cooler, less emotionally involved, less desperately eager to connect to her subject and to us.
His yearlong mission to train an Iraqi Army battalion had left him wounded and emotionally drained, and he was eager to go.
French writer-director Xavier Giannoli makes his feature debut with the powerful Les Corps Impatients, or Eager Bodies, an emotionally risky study of desire, rage and jealousy.
It suggests that the disruption to the mother, a lack of cash and all the other problems that go with single parenthood, probably make the girl more likely to be emotionally needy and to be eager to be able to use sexual allure as soon as possible to make people love her.
Their bedroom scene doesn't give them much more to work with, though the action does make Romeo more callow: he is cavalier while Juliet is emotionally torn; then he's puppyishly eager to get her back in bed.
We may be attracted, we may be eager; we may be emotionally and physically ready.
We may be attracted, we may be eager, and we may be emotionally and physically ready.
She was intelligent and lively, emotionally well-balanced, and she lubricated conversation by her eager attentiveness, her sweetness of manner, her "niceness" in a competitive world where that very quality was suspect and the word taboo.
It's about the particulars: our country is deeply invested — financially, psychologically, and emotionally — in the region where Mortenson sets his tale, and eager to help create a happy ending.
Many students, emotionally affected by January's devastating earthquake in Haiti, were eager to spend their spring breaks volunteering on the island nation.
