WORK-BRITTLE, OR WORK-BRICKLE Sense 1: Eager to work; energetic; industrious.
For all its inarticulate, cut-out, stuckness, it also has a sense of eager, focussed purpose to it.
Vice President Dick Cheney gave it a sense of "eager" when asked about his boss's appearance of remoteness from the press when relaxing on his ranch: "We've been criticized for being too forward-leaning.
After finishing as runners-up to West Bromwich Albion in the Football League First Division the previous season, there was a sense of eager anticipation within the club before the season began.
The leaders, sensing the eager willingness of their subjects to be controlled and relinquish responsibility for their acts, even to seek their own absolution, seized this as an opportunity to solidify their hold.
That was the same eager sense he conveyed to his training partners Friday and again during warm-ups for Saturday morning's Olympic trials.
It began life as a project on Kickstarter, the site where inventors ask the public to help finance their pet projects in exchange for little more than a sense of participation; eager gamers kicked in over $8.5 million.
Some fans lamented Clattenburg's departure; it was, above all, thrillingly modern to watch a referee who carefully styled his hair and adjudicated with a sense of bravado, eager to be part of the spectacle.
I got a sense of an eager new generation that takes LGBT equality pretty much for granted, walking on ground paved by the past two generations of activists.
But little about "Arrow" is static: The camera glides and swoops through the big set pieces and creates a sense of elegant, eager anticipation.
