Sentence examples for professed eagerness from inspiring English sources

Only Representative Shelley Berkley, a Democrat from Nevada, expressed skepticism toward Saudi Arabia's professed eagerness to fight terrorism, saying, "I'm not overly impressed" with the efforts.

Moreover, regarding Münsterberg's self-professed eagerness to investigate alleged supernormal phenomena, James revealed to Edward Titchener on 21 May 1899: My colleagues for the most part, when invited, have simply refused to see Mrs. Piper [whom James had hosted to conduct a series of experiments].

That animosity often leads media commentators to toss aside their professed beliefs and principles out of an eagerness to see him shamed or punished.

Example: Bush v. Gore highlighted Scalia's eagerness to flip-flop on his long-professed commitment to federalism and to, from the bench in DC, override a state supreme court ruling on a matter of state law (so specified by the U.S. Constitution Art II, Sec 1, Cl 2).

Their eagerness betrayed them.

Still, many professed optimism.

My stomach growled with eagerness.

He was a professed socialist.

Did he smell my eagerness?

Such eagerness could become deadly.

The problem is the professed beliefs.