Sentence examples for guarded enthusiasm from inspiring English sources

She expresses guarded enthusiasm and asks to see more.

Oil company executives and geologists expressed guarded enthusiasm for the president's initiative.

Fermi visited Washington, D.C., to alert the U.S. Navy about their research, but his guarded enthusiasm led only to a tiny grant.

Their blithe willingness to flout received wisdom (newspapers that cost nothing are worth nothing to advertisers) has provoked guarded enthusiasm from both media analysts and advertisers.

Lenovo has voiced guarded enthusiasm for getting into the enterprise tablet market — you know, that's the one with almost no players at the moment.

First, in Phaedo, Socrates expresses guarded enthusiasm for the thesis, associated with the Pythagoreans, that suicide is always wrong because it represents our releasing ourselves (i.e., our souls) from a "guard-post" (i.e., our bodies) the gods have placed us in as a form of punishment (Phaedo 61b-62c).

But there are others who are far more guarded in their public enthusiasm about scouting, and still others who are completely under cover.

The songwriter and historian Alec Wilder, in his canonical book, "American Popular Song," warns himself at the beginning of his chapter on Arlen, "I must guard against over-enthusiasm".

In contrast with the industry's enthusiasm, analysts are generally more guarded.

In fact, it was a pot of Lakrids' Salty Liquorice Syrup, zealously guarded in her black box, that earned Nigella's most effusive enthusiasm, echoing her earlier excitement over the liquorice-salt combo in her book Nigelissima.

Browder did not want the character's first on-screen reaction to be enthusiasm, so the character was written to be stoic and guarded around General Landry in the first scenes.