What's the difference between enthusiasm and phlegmatically?
Enthusiasm
Definition:
(n.) Inspiration as if by a divine or superhuman power; ecstasy; hence, a conceit of divine possession and revelation, or of being directly subject to some divine impulse.
(n.) A state of impassioned emotion; transport; elevation of fancy; exaltation of soul; as, the poetry of enthusiasm.
(n.) Enkindled and kindling fervor of soul; strong excitement of feeling on behalf of a cause or a subject; ardent and imaginative zeal or interest; as, he engaged in his profession with enthusiasm.
(n.) Lively manifestation of joy or zeal.
Example Sentences:
(1) The program met with continued support and enthusiasm from nurse administrators, nursing unit managers, clinical educators, ward staff and course participants.
(2) Once you've invested many years in a career, figuring out how to take time out and then return to a role that's comparable to the one you left (or as comparable as you want it to be) requires more than confidence and enthusiasm - employers need to actively acknowledge the benefits of such breaks and be more receptive to those seeking to return”.
(3) Analysis of patient questionnaires suggests more enthusiasm for patient-controlled analgesia, but in this study, it was difficult to clearly demonstrate any significant advantage for pain management or amount of opiate administered.
(4) A rather pessimistic wind is blowing over cancer chemotherapy, while a not very objective enthusiasm for second generation immunotherapy is raising its head.
(5) In his letter Abd El Fattah highlights the arbitrary nature of many of their detentions, the torture to which thousands have probably been subjected – and the apathy towards, and often enthusiasm for, such malpractice among the public.
(6) For all my enthusiasm, my family must have felt we were taking a step backwards in lifestyle.
(7) "I want to talk about Curb Your Enthusiasm instead, and the paintings of Chagall, the music of Amy Winehouse and Woody Allen films."
(8) Of course, Brown and Tony Blair's enthusiasm for neoliberal deregulation made the impact of the crisis far worse in Britain, while the Conservatives have been on the wrong side of the argument both before and since the crash.
(9) His enthusiasm for domestic combined heat and power (CHP) plants is disappointing for another reason: the likely carbon savings produced by replacing your boiler with a heat and power plant top out at around 15%.
(10) We recruit our colleagues for their enthusiasm, for delivering amazing customer service, and we invest in their development to ensure they can reach their full potential.
(11) The proportion of culture sore-throat patients returned to the original 55% level after an initial period of enthusiasm.
(12) He rarely writes about women with the same enthusiasm as he does about men.
(13) One London developer said the prince had used social occasions to buttonhole his boss to complain about the developer's enthusiasm for modernism.
(14) The recent enthusiasm for the combined Collis-Belsey operation should be tempered by continued, cautious, objective assessment of its long-term results.
(15) "Replaying the glory days of Apollo will not advance the cause of American space leadership or inspire the support and enthusiasm of the public and the next generation of space explorers," he wrote.
(16) All the passion and enthusiasm for sharing what made their favourite such a, well, favourite, was encouraging to see – and more places were still being submitted in the comments section too!
(17) Community-based researchers often need the special expertise of university statisticians, epidemiologists, and research methodologists, and the enthusiasm of fellow researchers.
(18) The URRFIS provides a systematic way to teach medical students a set of general counseling skills for health promotion and may increase enthusiasm for the clinical practice of risk-factor modification.
(19) Brown met many members of his cabinet before they issued their pledges of loyalty, which were offered with varying degrees of enthusiasm.
(20) The career switchers he has appointed have brought with them an enthusiasm and dedication that have enriched school life.
Phlegmatically
Definition:
(adv.) In a phlegmatic manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) This zoophilic dermatophyte may cause a difficult human phlegmatic trichophytia infection.
(2) In conditions of conflict between probability and value of reinforcement the dogs manifested two opposite strategies of behaviour: orientation to highly probable events (choleric and phlegmatic) and to low-probable events (sanguinic and melancholic) what is connected with individual properties of functioning and the character of interaction of four brain structures (frontal cortex, hippocampus, hypothalamus, amygdala).
(3) Rosberg, it seems, has resigned himself to the more phlegmatic tactic of doing his considerable best while hoping that Hamilton implodes.
(4) Cypriots are phlegmatic in a way their more hot-blooded Greek neighbours are not.
(5) If that means you’re not going to vote for me, well I’ve had my career, but I want to do what I think is the right thing, and if that means it costs me votes, it costs me votes.” Three decades in the police has had the added advantage of making him “phlegmatic” about his posters being repeatedly vandalised, he adds cheerfully.
(6) Surely murdering children at a pop concert should set these useless phlegmatic Brits’ blood boiling?
(7) A phlegmatic person is characterised by a lack of egoistic or altruistic instincts while feelings of nausea or fear are increased.
(8) While Brandon Lewis, Tory MP for Great Yarmouth, whose constituency includes the Hemsby area, pledged to help residents fight for more funds for coastal defence, some people were remarkably phlegmatic about the storm.
(9) The chancellor knew that Britain's biggest bank was in trouble even before McKillop came on the line, yet even the normally phlegmatic Darling was surprised at the size and immediacy of the crisis.
(10) That was why, he explained, Welshmen were put in charge instead of "the bovine and phlegmatic Anglo-Saxons."]
(11) Lebedev, a semi-opposition figure, was phlegmatic about his defeat, telling the Guardian: "My campaign lasted for three days."
(12) Even phlegmatic Germany had a post World Cup hangover; in an environment as emotionally volatile as South Africa, it's inevitable.
(13) Welby is said to be phlegmatic about the prospect, believing he has done everything possible to offer the opportunity to forge a new, looser relationship, which hardliners may choose to reject.
(14) One of the few to take the turn of events phlegmatically was Johnson’s father, Stanley, who said the appropriate phrase was “Et tu, Brute?” before going on to say he now thought Gove was the best choice.
(15) The 57-year-old surgeon from Glasgow, who had been booked on a flight yesterday anyway, was phlegmatic about the whole affair.
(16) "If we need to go back over that stuff," says Ashley, resolute and phlegmatic, "our problems were from 10 years ago.
(17) You have to do the best by your child, don’t you?” is intoned with a phlegmatic sigh, lips pressed together in wry acknowledgment that the situation isn’t ideal, but life’s a bitch, and one’s own child’s interests – obviously– trump every other consideration.
(18) The oligarch said he didn't regret bringing the case, and even attempted a phlegmatic note, observing: "Life is life," before speeding off in a black Mercedes.
(19) All I’m doing is giving a pint of blood over six months.” Ruth Atkins, an NHS communications manager and former nurse from Oxford, is similarly phlegmatic about her contribution.
(20) I thought of Georges Simenon’s curmudgeonly, phlegmatic detective, Chief Inspector Maigret.