He wanted fame, and wanted it with a pure, hot eagerness that would have been embarrassing in a smaller man.
"Vice" treats conservatism as resistance to the civil-rights movement, eagerness to reduce taxes and regulations, and pure opportunism.
ONE is accustomed to anticipate with some eagerness the publication of the annual reports on pure and applied chemistry by the Chemical Society and the Society of Chemical Industry, respectively.
His eagerness for her to be a living exemplar of Unitarian theology, a pure creature naturally endowed with goodness and spiritual understanding, led him to falsify his portrait of her, to leave out the ways in which she was aggressive, temperamental and uncouth.
Mr Krugman thinks so; he thinks European governments' eagerness to embrace austerity budgets and the ECB's inflation-fighting orthodoxy are pure herd behaviour.
A qualification from a technomathematics or interdisciplinary institute may provide an advantage, but excellent pure mathematicians with interesting curriculum vitae may also land an industrial job if they demonstrate eagerness to work on industrial topics.
That is pure calculation, of course, easily arranged by a programmer as dexterous as Nathan, yet Vikander, brimful of an eagerness not so much to engage with the world as to toy with it, does suggest that Ava has slipped the bonds of her inventor.
He was a beautiful mix of eagerness and hesitancy, need and striving, caution and surprise, all of which were grounded in a pure, unconditional love.
Their eagerness betrayed them.
My stomach growled with eagerness.
