"I don't have as much enthusiasm this time as I did last time," Ms. Farr said.
"It takes a lot of enthusiasm and time and energy".
More muted enthusiasm this time around isn't altogether surprising, however.
Let us hope for "miracles of execution and enthusiasm" this time.
Such enthusiasm took time to build up, said Carlos Martins, the executive director of the project surrounding Guimarães's selection.
When experts find a willing audience, they can enter a zone of enthusiasm where time has no meaning.
"The Democrats continue to downgrade convention events due to lack of enthusiasm — this time they are moving out of Bank of America/Panther stadium," began a statement from the Republican National Committee put out within minutes of the announcement.
Players for cricket's five-day international "test" matches learn their craft in four-day inter-county games and how many people nowadays have the enthusiasm or time for a drawn-out, often mediocre, spectacle like that?
If the world switched on to watch the 2000 Games in Sydney, they did so with even greater enthusiasm this time, with the audience put at four billion, a 20percentnt larger share of viewers.
Some primary schools teach the basics of voting or other areas of citizenship as part of personal, social and health education, or perhaps because they have a school council, but this largely depends on the enthusiasm and time commitments of senior management or staff.
