Sentence examples for phony enthusiasm from inspiring English sources
Words carry connotations; because of its larcenous, racy origin, this verb lugs along an aura of slyly phony enthusiasm.
I was appalled at the way Motown was milked for maudlin nostalgia in the movie "The Big Chill," including Martha Reeves and the Vandellas' "Dancing in the Street," and David Bowie and Mick Jagger's obnoxious 1985 cover version of that song seemed to epitomize that decade's phony enthusiasm.
No one likes phony enthusiasm, so please don't think I am trying to "pump you up" for the interview.
Except we probably won't, because nothing sounds as phony as paid-for enthusiasm.
It's not a phony, "rah-rah" kind of enthusiasm; it's something with much more depth.
He has thrown himself into his battle against Rodenstock and phony wine with the same headlong enthusiasm that he devoted to collecting wine.
The movement brings to mind the landed gentry's enthusiasm, in England two centuries ago, for constructing phony Roman or Greek ruins, or "follies," on their estates.
Then Schumer's office reported that the documents were phony and that the authorities had been called, and Johnson and Cernovich both lost their enthusiasm for posting on social media about the story.
Done badly, this could come off as phony or overbearing, but hopefully that won't be the case if your employees are communicating with enthusiasm and honesty — after all, they should be some of the most knowledgeable and passionate people around when it comes to your company and products.
The trouble with them is that they suffer from a kind of anxious enthusiasm that leads them to imitate something else they have no business copying--except for the purpose of impressing the ignorant--and the result is phony.
