Even when Sarita realizes her sister is serious, her enthusiasm is halfhearted.
The professional cynicism of Collet-Serra's flip drama is matched by some serious critical enthusiasm for the film, where the very notion of craft and technique is exalted for its own sake, in a sort of populistic-academic congealment of the concept of the auteur.
Take the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (US-CAP), which included three huge oil companies, and supported (with admittedly inconsistent enthusiasm) serious climate legislation.
This Beijing trio's jangly, noise-kissed rock descends from grunge and artier elders like the Cure and R.E.M., but Hedgehog trades the world-weariness for some serious wide-eyed enthusiasm.
The enthusiasm for serious television — and by television, I mean open-ended series with multiple directors — in large measure overlaps with, and reinforces, the art-house consensus, the latter-day tradition of quality.
Mr. Reid is a miner's son whose home state of Nevada depends heavily on mining, and it is hard to overstate his lack of enthusiasm for serious reform.
This eccentric mix of serious racing and hopeless enthusiasm means that the thoroughbreds of the hen-racing world stand as much chance as any have-a-goer who turns up on the day (held on the first Saturday of August each year).
In her estimation, the growing enthusiasm for serious, sophisticated puppetry is part of the wider trend for interactive theatre: "We're all storytellers and that's very much in keeping with how theatre is evolving... What puppetry invites you to do is to become part of the story".
Their enthusiasm, their serious sense of responsibility, and their grasp of the scope and complexity of what they were undertaking was inspiring.
In recent years, despite a serious respiratory illness, her signature enthusiasm and energy touched everyone in her orbit.
