His voice is toneless, with a somewhat weary note of enthusiasm permanently etched into it, and his vocabulary is bland: "stuff" is "cool," "neat," "crummy," "super," "supercool".
A shout is to a shout-out as a shooting is to a shootout — with the -out stretching the meaning to cover more ground, and in this case to color the sound of the shout with a note of enthusiasm rather than of anger or alarm.
"It's interesting what an isolation chamber does," says Kraft with more than a note of enthusiasm in his voice.
Paradox won, despite conceding thirty-four pounds to Aveline, but his "brilliant" success was again met with silence from the crowd and Cloete was greeted "without a word of congratulation or the semblance of a note of enthusiasm".
And you can hear the same note of earnest enthusiasm in Eshun.
Not all performances had arrived at maturity: Ms. Angelova, a compellingly cool Sleepwalker in "Sonnambula," did not yet let us feel the heart that beats, and Mr. Cook's marvelously innocent Poet showed too often the same note of eager enthusiasm.
But she, too, noted the lack of enthusiasm among voters.
The dessert list is rudimentary – a few Basque cheeses, some ices, and a lightly set ewe's milk yoghurt, which is discreetly removed from the bill when our lack of enthusiasm is noted.
But Der Spiegel also noted a distinct lack of enthusiasm for Clinton's presidency among the German public.
The Athenaeum wrote: His Irish Symphony of 1866 won similarly enthusiastic praise, but as Arthur Jacobs notes, "The first rapturous outburst of enthusiasm for Sullivan as an orchestral composer did not last".
