(n.) One moved or actuated by enthusiasm; as: (a) One who imagines himself divinely inspired, or possessed of some special revelation; a religious madman; a fanatic. (b) One whose mind is wholly possessed and heated by what engages it; one who is influenced by a peculiar; fervor of mind; an ardent and imaginative person.
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.
Maniac
Definition:
(a.) Raving with madness; raging with disordered intellect; affected with mania; mad.
(n.) A raving lunatic; a madman.
Example Sentences:
(1) It blamed "confrontation maniacs" for "[making their] servants of conservative media let loose a whole string of sophism intended to hatch all sorts of dastardly wicked plots and float misinformation".
(2) I’m a maniac and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and ugly,” he deadpanned.
(3) The question of the psychogenesis of schizophrenia-like, maniac or depressive psychoses in epileptics until now cannot be answered because the psychosocial patterns which might condition them have not jet been investigated upon.
(4) The French unit also has proposals for a new film from Dutch genre icon Paul Verhoeven and a remake of 1988 cult horror Maniac Cop on its slate for Cannes.
(5) "There is no consistency in the outlook of the Nigerian maniacs: they use weapons produced by the very capitalist system they claim to deplore, for instance.
(6) Similarly the hypermotility of a maniacal type has a smooth and purposeful character, as far as the relation to a particular situation is concerned, which suggests that the respective topological functional structures are preserved.
(7) And that is how I became a religious maniac and a total hedonist at the same time.
(8) Umar, a childlike 30-year-old from Rebo with a maniacal laugh, was diving for tin in exactly the same manner when his four metre-deep underwater ditch collapsed around him, knocking away his mask and air tube.
(9) The antidepressive effects of SAMe have been evident and statistically highly interesting, precocious, free from collateral effects and maniacal rebounds.
(10) And as for Boris, the other main outer – he’s a cycling maniac from Islington.
(11) If the automatic budget cuts are a brick wall, the Democrats and Republicans are the addled maniacs fighting for control of the wheel as they drive straight for it.
(12) He's a maniac, and he's on first after another base hit - Martinez strolls into third base so that means there are runners at the corners with one out and here's Alex Avila trying to put the Tigers on top early.
(13) 12 min: The two sides of Argentina: they put together a sublime 20-pass move which nearly ends in Sorin being found free in the box with a threaded pass from Veron; then Batistuta slides into Cole like a maniac.
(14) There have been attacks on our Russian and Soviet diplomats, but not something this dramatic.” Kosachev said the repercussions of the killing on Russian-Turkish relations would depend on the details of the incident: “It could have been a planned terrorist attack by extremists or it could be the work of a lone maniac.
(15) Those are the kinds of questions Trayvon Martin had to ultimately defend himself against posthumously, despite the fact the unarmed 17 year-old was killed by a gun wielding maniac (who’d eventually walk away free and later harm women ).
(16) Why do Trump’s supporters have so little faith in America’s freedoms as to think them vulnerable to a few homicidal maniacs, egged on by his friends in the gun lobby?
(17) A couple of years back, Jackie Calmes published research for Harvard’s Kennedy School about the ways in which conservative media’s maniacal “anti-establishment” orientation made it impossible for conservatives to govern.
(18) He said the president was “ maniacally focused ” on fulfilling his campaign promises and predicted a daily fight against the media, airing grievances against what he called the opposition party.
(19) Now, it’s entirely possible that these Republicans are endorsing Clinton because Trump is an unhinged maniac who has given people of all political persuasions plenty of reason to not want him anywhere near the levers of power.
(20) Combined investigation in patients with maniac-depressive psychosis revealed the close relation of depression to the direction in which changes of central and peripheral links of bodily neurohumoral system occur.