Sentence examples for what eagerness from inspiring English sources

With what eagerness the scholars must hover over these layers of old leaf mold spread out here!

With what eagerness the scholars must hover over these layers of old leaf mold spread out here!—an eagerness perhaps not unmixed, at moments, with apprehension.

At the time, he had not been capable of much more than Excuse me? and he'd been excited and anxious and taken by surprise when he'd seen with what eagerness the boy turned to him, a sudden flaring in the sunken eyes of something like hope.

What is this eagerness to rush somewhere freezing, pull on a Day-Glo onesie and smash into a tree?

Under Mr. Rothman the mostly young musicians made up in eagerness what they sometimes lacked in precision.

What does investors' eagerness to own scraps of state-owned Russian banks say about the industry?First, that the sector has lots of room to grow by 20% this year, some analysts predict.

What is the eagerness, among all parties, to claim as their own the author of the following not at all unrepresentative passage from "Molloy," the first book of the famous trilogy on which Beckett's high reputation as a novelist rests?

But what does our eagerness to share images like this say about us as a society?

Williams doesn't quite manage to get the hectic energy of Faust's complaint, his restless eagerness for what he says he doesn't want.

She had read about Maxwell in the newspaper, but it appears that Radney's eagerness is what kept her on the case: he gave Lee all his files, and she evidently spent months interviewing everyone who knew anything about Maxwell.

Three years "and a few days" in the dank and wretched conditions of an Egyptian jail had not dulled his eagerness for what he described as "the next battle".