(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.
Willingness
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being willing; free choice or consent of the will; freedom from reluctance; readiness of the mind to do or forbear.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is also a clear sign of our willingness and determination to step up engagement across the whole range of the EU-Turkey relationship to fully reflect the strategic importance of our relations.
(2) This article describes a method of selecting a potentially successful strategy using a combination of two factors: change target and level of change willingness and ability.
(3) The arrest of the Washington Post’s Tehran correspondent Jason Rezaian and his journalist wife, Yeganeh Salehi, as well as a photographer and her partner, is a brutal reminder of the distance between President Hassan Rouhani’s reforming promises and his willingness to act.
(4) These steps signify a willingness for engagement not seen before, but they have been overshadowed by the "nuclear crisis" triggered in October 2002 when Pyongyang admitted to having the "know-how", but not the technology, for a highly enriched uranium route to nuclear weapons.
(5) The chances of Sam Allardyce becoming the next England manager have been enhanced by his willingness to help the Football Association to mentor a young assistant who would be groomed as his successor.
(6) Kim Kardashian: Hollywood could benefit from a sharper script and more willingness – or freedom, which may be the issue given the game’s official status – to poke at the culture it’s representing.
(7) Equally important is a frequent review of medications and a willingness to alter regimens as situations require.
(8) It raises serious concerns about the government's willingness to let the public help shape the future of England's forests.
(9) There also seems to be a greater willingness of the surgeon to operate on these patients.
(10) The effectiveness of treatment depends on the efforts of the given institution to solve this problem and on the willingness of the staff to adapt new diagnostic and therapeutic methods.
(11) Consequently, men's SES and their willingness and ability to invest affection and resources in relationships may often outweigh the effects of their physical attractiveness in women's actual selection of partners.
(12) MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES--The number of adult long term mentally ill patients whom general practitioners estimate they have on their lists and general practitioners' willingness to take responsibility for them.
(13) The company’s success reflects affluent shoppers’ willingness to pay extra for products perceived to be of high quality, made with premium ingredients.
(14) Its willingness to ignore diplomatic convention and use its Kuala Lumpur embassy to conduct an extraterritorial assassination will be seen as setting a dire precedent that cannot be allowed to stand.
(15) Second, share prices have been increasing all year in response to prevarication by the US central bank, which has struggled to raise interest rates despite signalling a willingness to do so.
(16) In his previous job, as BBC Vision director, he made a generally favourable impression on media reporters, especially those from papers hostile to the corporation, for his willingness to attend friendly and gossipy dinners without being chaperoned by BBC minders.
(17) The availability of effective dysmenorrhea therapy with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) has been accompanied by greater expectations of relief on the part of the patient, increased willingness to seek medical help, a more rational approach to patient management by physicians, changes in attitude toward women with primary dysmenorrhea, and a debunking of the myths associated with dysmenorrhea.
(18) If there's a single thread running through Anderson's diverse output, it's an engagement with new technologies and a willingness to put the usually hidden parts of music and performance – mixing boards, rigs, filters – out in the open.
(19) The coalition thinks appointing Green to find further savings in this area demonstrates its willingness to allow others outside government to look at the books, but it is also banking on benefiting from the touch of a renowned businessman when what are likely to be hugely unpopular cuts are announced.
(20) Not for the first time, the public willingness to forget all about Max Mosley is frustrated by Max Mosley's determination to be forgotten about.