Sentence examples for keen to please from inspiring English sources

He seemed too keen to please, desperate to be loved by all.

He was ingenious, keen to please, irreverently funny; his energy seemed inexhaustible.

Aides are concerned that delaying the second most important financial statement of the year will show that the government is overly keen to please the Chinese.

To some observers, the administration is also too keen to please Beijing, wasting leverage rather than smoothing the path to greater gains.

He was helped by an assortment of people — journalists with useful contacts, demographers who had taken big risks to keep accurate records, and provincial archivists keen to please an old comrade.

ROMANO PRODI'S new centre-left government probably owes something of its recent electoral success to a sense that his predecessor as prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, had been a little too keen to please the Bush administration.

To attack Lineker for attacking Whittingdale suggests a newspaper keener to please its owner than its readers.

One of fund managers' most frequent complaints is over the huge quantity and poor quality of research from financial behemoths that are keener to please their investment-banking clients than to provide critical research.

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That being said, it also follows a formula -- one that's been employed by ballad writers in the 1970s and beyond, demonstrating a keen ability to please.

Even in middle age, Lwin remains a keen-to-please ingenue, dedicating the Lolita-sex romp Louis Quatorze to the late McLaren with an aghast sigh: "I was only 14!" She apologises frequently for the disparity between her appearance and the songs' paedophilic fixations: tonight, her faux-orgasmic panting on the innuendo-laden Sexy Eiffel Tower simply makes her sound out of breath.