What's the difference between ebullience and enthusiastic?

Ebullience


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Ebulliency

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Now, despite the challenges, Spurr appears ebullient.
  • (2) It was flattering, appropriate (despite inevitable "oo-er, heels at a sports event" comments in the media) and, crucially, the look was not overpowered by Obama's mustard cashmere cardigan – although she was as ebullient and as natural as we have come to expect.
  • (3) But the more understated David Tanner, GB Rowing performance director, and sailing's ebullient Stephen Park have been equally influential in their own sports.
  • (4) Toby Young called her a "petulant prima donna" in the Telegraph, while Observer critic Robert McCrum wrote that, as "an ebullient and pioneering feminist publisher from the 1970s [it's] hardly a surprise that she should find herself unresponsive to Roth's lifelong subject: the adventures of the ordinary sexual [American] man".
  • (5) In 1961, Freeman took over Pick of the Pops from David Jacobs, and successfully managed to relegate the musical content to second place with his ebullient presenting manner.
  • (6) It was a cruel irony that so ebullient and brilliant a speaker - he was the irreplaceable host of the Evening Standard Drama Awards for many years - should be deprived of his voice in the last months of his life.
  • (7) In 2011, director Michel Hazanavicius delighted Cannes with the grace and ebullience of his silent pastiche The Artist .
  • (8) After the John Birt regime, however, his ebullient leadership style involving "cut the crap" and "let's make it happen" initiatives was welcomed by staff,who had felt creativity had been repressed for far too long under the weight of bureaucracy.
  • (9) Merkel, the great political survivor of Europe, and Mr Ebullience, the new inductee from down under.
  • (10) To find ways of sharing their enthusiasm and gifts with our communities, above all in works of mercy and concern for others?” Mother of disabled child kissed by pope applauds Francis's 'love for everybody' Read more At the barricades, the ebullient crowd mingled with police, national guardsmen in fatigues, and wary agents from the secret service and FBI, in suits save for telltale holsters, badges and microphones.
  • (11) It is an ebullient, bustling and self-confident city, and any changes need to take these essential characteristics onboard.
  • (12) And Pakistan's ebullient media are having a field day.
  • (13) But not in a sort of ebullient way, I just feel quietly confident and settled.
  • (14) Sarah Sands, ebullient towards the end of a 12-hour first day as deputy editor last week, is to mastermind a daily Trends section with new columns on sex and style.
  • (15) As for his lordship, he is ebullient as ever and feels vindicated that he can defend “the values that led me to join the Liberal party in my teens”.
  • (16) And so the performance, rehearsed with the professionals and now played with them, proceeds on its mettle – boisterous and ebullient, ending in applause.
  • (17) While wealthy nations mull over climate projections and agonise over potential dips in GDP, the stereotypically ebullient Pacific islanders aim to bring some steely reality to Paris.
  • (18) Boys were rated as more attentive, hyperactive, ebullient and sociable; girls were described as more placid and talkative.
  • (19) A particular case attracted my attention: the Daily Mail interviewed "Rudi" , described as "an ebullient 28 years old" who lives with his family on benefits, around Nottingham.
  • (20) It is 11am and this is his fourth interview of the day, starting at some ungodly hour with a baptism of bosomy fire courtesy of Lorraine Kelly and followed by a stream of ebullient radio presenters.

Enthusiastic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Enthusiastical
  • (n.) An enthusiast; a zealot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The new Somali government has enthusiastically embraced the new deal and created a taskforce, bringing together the government, lead donors (the US, UK, EU, Norway and Denmark), the World Bank and civil society.
  • (2) The Nazi extermination of Jews in Lithuania (aided enthusiastically by local Lithuanians) was virtually total.
  • (3) Since then, Republican activists and enthusiasts have been energised and polls have tightened.
  • (4) Life exists in the noisy grey bits between a 'no' and full, enthusiastic consent.
  • (5) People like me argued that's an analytical error, that the most enthusiastic deepeners will be the new member states, and we were three-quarters right.
  • (6) So when he came to tell me, he said, "Don't get too enthusiastic, it has nothing to do with your abilities, it's to do with the fact that they have just raised the expatriate allowances."
  • (7) In contrast, we are less enthusiastic about thrombolytic therapy for distal small vessel thrombosis or embolism because complete clot lysis was achieved in only one of five patients.
  • (8) He has opinions on everything, and he hurls them at you so enthusiastically, so ferociously, that before long you feel battered.
  • (9) Netanyahu can be expected to enthusiastically support a tougher Trump line .
  • (10) The new defence minister, Augustin Bizimana, enthusiastically carried on arming the Interahamwe.
  • (11) The project provided experiential learning and interdisciplinary interactions that were enthusiastically received by the students.
  • (12) Russia was less enthusiastic about an area out of reach of its bombers, insisting on fighters going one way and civilians the other.
  • (13) And it has proved too forgiving of welfare abuse, too obsessed with universal human rights, and too enthusiastic about immigration.
  • (14) Nadella pleases ValueAct – see this enthusiastic statement today – which has been until now Microsoft's biggest critic.
  • (15) He found Margaret Thatcher far more enthusiastic and he was invited to a Downing Street reception where he met the chairman of a small City bank.
  • (16) It positioned Labour much more to the left, David Cameron's Tories a little more to the right, and the Liberal Democrats as the sole enthusiasts for a previously overcrowded centre.
  • (17) Sakowicz, witness to tens of thousands of murders at the Ponar (Paneriai) site outside Vilnius, recorded accurately that most of the killers were enthusiastic locals.
  • (18) He says the president is ready to embrace the results "enthusiastically" and accept the will of the people.
  • (19) However visitors to benm.at – an iPhone and iPod touch enthusiasts' website – can download a profile that instantly activates the tethering system free of charge.
  • (20) This use of MR imaging has been enthusiastically accepted by orthopedic surgeons, and the assessment of musculoskeletal trauma has emerged as one of the most commonly utilized applications of this diagnostic method.