Enthusiasms

Park is autistic, and her room is a window on what she calls enthusiasms and others call obsessions. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One of the more unexpected of his literary enthusiasms is for Samuel Johnson. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The pretentious word for these enthusiasms is "psychogeography". ❋ Unknown (2008)

In 1981, he wrote a scathing attack on the massive nuclear freeze movement, which he now describes as “hysteria.” [...] “I don’t get caught in enthusiasms,” Krauthammer said of the nuclear freeze movement and of Obama’s mass appeal. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As for Krauthammer’s claim that he doesn’t “get caught in enthusiasms,” any casual examination of his work reveals that Krauthammer is in fact enormously enthusiastic about at least a couple of things: American military power, and the necessity of vigorously applying that power against the “existential” threat of radical Islamic extremism. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Don't allow the self-appointed guardians of the poor to tell you that your enthusiasms are the artifacts of social and economic self-interest. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Studying your enthusiasms is the shortest route to discovering your core self, and finding experiences that are likely to stick. ❋ Julie Morgenstern (2008)

There is, of course, no better basis for friendship between peoples than sharing common interests and common enthusiasms, which is in evidence in your reception of the film version of one of Shakespeare's greatest plays as interpreted by some of the best actors in Britain. ❋ Unknown (1953)

Several of these "enthusiasms" are very valid -- ecology, alternative medicine, shamanism in the right hands, and so on. ❋ William Harryman (2007)

And, like rock music with its explicitly rebellious agenda, jazz could unleash destructive enthusiasms. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)

That labeling of the 1950s was in retrospect misleading, because unlike the ecstatic enthusiasms of earlier awakenings, the postwar surge was channeled primarily through conventional and even establishment institutions, portending no great revolution, either civil or religious. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

Mr. Fiddian-Green, who seems always in motion and has a remarkably wide range of enthusiasms, flits from subject to subject. ❋ Andrew McKie (2011)

His interests were childish enthusiasms for science fiction and computer games. ❋ Anonymous (2011)

All her other enthusiasms were as inconstant as her friendships. ❋ Anonymous (2011)

He and Maddy Cohan had similar personalities and enthusiasms. ❋ Anonymous (2011)

enthusiasms, enthusiasms... what are my enthusiasms? [booze], [women], [baseball]. ❋ Antero (2005)

After the [accident] he lost his [enthusiasm] for the [sport]. ❋ CALD 3rd Edition (2016)

[Britney] was [jumping up and down] and squealing with [delight] - she was positively enthusiasmic. ❋ Whitt (2007)

After the [accident] he lost his [enthusiasm] for the [sport]. ❋ CALD 3rd Edition (2016)

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm. It moves stones, it charm [brutes]. Enthusiasm is [the genius] of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no [victories] without it . ❋ SLg (2004)

- ([Biology Teacher]) [Come on] kids, show some enthusiasm! - (Class) [Meh] ❋ Anon55 (2006)

After the [accident] he lost his [enthusiasm] for the [sport]. ❋ CALD 3rd Edition (2016)

After the [accident] he lost his [enthusiasm] for the [sport]. ❋ CALD 3rd Edition (2016)

At [the National] [Zoo] one day, I heard someone behind me shout, "Yo! It's a mo'fuckin' [giraffe]!". He certainly had his share of ghetto-enthusiasm about that animal. ❋ Smeachem Beacham (2009)

[False enthusiasm] is when you say to the boss: "Another new [tracking] sheet for us to use? This is a great tool to help us be more productive! I can't wait to start using it!" While Thinking: "If I have to [fill out] one more freaking tracking sheet, I'm going to go insane." ❋ UrbanGirlInFL (2009)