Zealous enthusiasm for the politically charged and frequently arcane theories that energized departments in the 1970s, '80s and early '90s Marxism, structuralism, psychoanalysis has faded.
Late at night, coming back completely pished, my flatmate had scrawled "Corpus Diem!" in a fit of zealous enthusiasm for life, little realising her mistake.
However, high levels of disease burden coupled with zealous enthusiasm may be getting ahead of rational research and evidence.
We're divided into people who love a tear jerker and people who love to ridicule them, an uncomfortable partnership of mockery and zealous over-enthusiasm. .
"We got over zealous in our enthusiasm for this wonderful place.
Equally entertaining is the adaptation of Nick Hornby's book, High Fidelity, showing the the zealous, at times unhinged enthusiasm of store staff and customers.
A "nationalist," according to my dictionary is 1. "a person who has devotion and loyalty to one's own nation;" and 2. "a person who has [and here we see the crucial difference] excessive patriotism or chauvinism, which is a zealous and aggressive patriotism or enthusiasm for military glory, a biased devotion to any group, attitude, or cause".
A "Nationalist," according to my dictionary is 1. a person who has devotion and loyalty to one's own nation, and 2. a person who has excessive patriotism or chauvinism, which is a zealous and aggressive patriotism or enthusiasm for military glory, a biased devotion to any group, attitude, or cause.
Yet despite the families' shared roots, heated discussions among the three Kubba brothers, their wives, a brother-in-law and the family matriarch at their home today suggested that enthusiasm for Mr. Chalabi ranges from zealous to zero.
His jaunty, prodding style is that of the painfully zealous, woolly-jumpered geography teacher, bursting with a barely controlled, deeply uncool enthusiasm for his subject".
Slow though his enthusiasm had been to kindle, Gravel was now rapidly developing into a zealous amateur detective.
