They looked like eager restaurant waiters.
Mr. Turner and Mr. Murray leaned forward, their arms on the table and faces attentive, like eager students.
But, as the subject switched to Trump, he answered with what sounded like eager anticipation.
Before a crowd of 6,963 at Continental Arena, they played like eager disciples throughout.
Thus, like eager children, all 76 million of us gathered around the presents, expecting there to be something for us.
Many of their teenage fans sat on the ground with legs crossed, singing along like eager kindergartners.
There's an intriguing blandness in these playlists, which come off like eager attempts to soften and humanize our Commander-in-Chief.
Yet like eager latecomers in all situations, when the Manhattan establishment finally did sign on to the digital revolution, they came as born-again enthusiasts.
The pleasing, slightly facile books come out almost every year, as tidy and punctual as postage stamps, and the applauding reviewers line up like eager stamp collectors to get the latest issue.
And like eager kids on Christmas morning, Ms. Heverin has been getting up early, taking a 5 45 train from Connecticut each day to line up for when Javits opens its doors at 9.
Certainly, Kreuger, like all great Ponzi schemers, had a willing army of dupes and confederates behind him; as is often the case, the victims were so gullible that they seem like eager accomplices to, as well as casualties of, the fraud.
