Sentence examples for if not eager from inspiring English sources

She was talking about her husband's affair, a subject she was ready, if not eager, to address.

They are willing, if not eager, to make the trade-offs inherent in the entrant's service model.

I had certainly read about the sexual revolution in magazines like Time, and I was nothing if not eager to take it beyond the theoretical.

Three Republican Presidents — Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Hoover — held office during Prohibition, and all of them were willing, if not eager, to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment.

Three Republican Presidents Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Hoover held office during Prohibition, and all of them were willing, if not eager, to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment.

Since that time, he says, terrorists have "consistently benefited" from their acts because feckless European governments have been ready -- if not eager -- to capitulate to threats.

If they were not eager to invest in this country, the huge trade deficits caused by all that consumer spending would have led to a dollar crisis.

If he's not eager to brag, you're either on your way out or he's two-timing you with someone who's about to fill your shoes.

The flip side is that if you are not eager to network, then maybe remaining an engineer is preferable.

"How long have you been a lawyer?" Tasha Willis's question, posed at our first meeting, was a fair one, even if I was not eager to answer it.

But if Republican lawmakers are not eager to oppose a domestic violence bill, conservative activists are itching for a fight.