Sentence examples for strange enthusiasm from inspiring English sources

The ones set free by a day off work, who have come here to enjoy it, bringing a strange enthusiasm to this ordinary winter's day at the park.

Transgressive by its nature, this "strange enthusiasm" shattered and then recombined dozens of more parochial attachments.

What came to be known as the Great Upheaval, the movement for the eight-hour day, elicited what one historian has called "a strange enthusiasm".

Beginning about 63 he also developed strange religious enthusiasms and became increasingly attracted to the preachers of novel cults.

Were local postal strikes behind this strange lack of enthusiasm?

A strange juxtaposition of enthusiasm and scarcity abounded everywhere; we felt elated and distraught at the same time.

But in the strange lack of enthusiasm Britons are showing for the economic recovery overseen by George Osborne, the Conservative chancellor, it almost could.

My poor mother, whom I'm trying not to sob over, is sitting across from me in the booth, transfixed by her cardboard plate, eating, with a strange and elegant enthusiasm, broccoli cake and something or other, as if any of this mattered.

"After years of economic depression and war, we were embraced by a strange kind of enthusiasm that everything had to be new and we were certain this style home was the answer because it embodied modesty and simplicity and was built to blend in with the natural surroundings," Mr. Scully said.

We have four children who have colds, homework problems, loud voices, bad dreams, strange anxieties, sudden enthusiasms, big appetites and muddy shoes.

But nothing can compare with the original's strange combination of naïve enthusiasm and knowing lewdness.