Example sentences of "[pron] enthusiasm for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately I dived in one day without realising that the pool had been emptied ( I am short-sighted ) , and although my head turned out to be harder than the pool bottom , it seemed to dampen my enthusiasm for the sport . |
| 2 | Now … in my enthusiasm for the anecdotal aspect of all this I have neglected to mention the other half of Goffmann 's analysis of remedial procedure . |
| 3 | I have realised that I am no longer a spring chicken by tour standards — 28 in February — and the wrinkles are starting to appear , so , to prolong my career and my enthusiasm for the game , I am cutting down . |
| 4 | I hope that my enthusiasm for the subject material in the above discussion will not be mistaken for any wholehearted support of some sort of postmodern aesthetics or politics . |
| 5 | That was due to my enthusiasm for the excellent achievements of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister at Maastricht . |
| 6 | Applying Shirk 's concept of ‘ adaptive behaviour ’ ( Shirk 1982 : 5 ) , their enthusiasm for a number of major student ‘ tides ’ such as going abroad to study , doing business and having love affairs , can be viewed as strategies for escaping from the depressing reality of everyday life in contemporary China . |
| 7 | Their enthusiasm for the research increased after the policemen and women in Easton had reassured themselves about the field-worker 's religion , sensitivity towards which was initially intensified by the common-sense view among some ordinary constables that Queen 's University is a Republican stronghold . |
| 8 | The Scots were , in fact , an amazing success story ; and that success came from their pride , and their enthusiasm for the world outside . |
| 9 | They are also likely to include members who have a high profile in the community and their enthusiasm for the school , or lack of it , may be very influential on others . |
| 10 | Shabba Ranks and his enigmatic manager ‘ The Specialist ’ seem to be in a minority with their enthusiasm for the record . |
| 11 | Many of us will remember their enthusiasm for the work of the Lord and the joy that they had in the fact that God should use them in such a way . |
| 12 | Some thought that far too many opulent and now half-empty movie palaces had been built for the elusive fashionable trade whilst others detected a more general dulling of the palate as the masses lost their enthusiasm for the old stories and seemed all too ready for something new . |
| 13 | Their enthusiasm for the gangster film was in part a hope that it would be a transitional form and not an atrophied and unchanging product . |
| 14 | Critics have sniped that the dividing line between the political and the profit motive has never been too sharply defined on Hamnett 's agenda , a feeling provoked by such off-the-cuff comments as her enthusiasm for an idea that will ‘ make me rich and wo n't hurt animals ’ . |
| 15 | Since the late 1940s the Queen Mother had been the darling of National Hunt racing : it was largely her enthusiasm for the sport that raised its status from that of a poor relation to the Flat to , by the mid-1950s , a position of near equality — in popularity if not in the prize money available . |
| 16 | Hilton warns her not to skimp these obligatory verbal prayers in her enthusiasm for the new contemplation . |
| 17 | But I 'll do it ! she told herself , her enthusiasm for the task growing with every stroke of her charcoal pencil . |
| 18 | Her enthusiasm for the social programme is astonishing . |
| 19 | But there will , of course , be no chance of that happening unless Britain were to show its enthusiasm for the project from the outset . ’ |
| 20 | Its academic success had been such that it had become progressively less progressive , its original zeal swamped by the fee-paying prosperous solid Northern conservatism of parents and offspring : it had become a bastion of respectability , its one-time principles upheld by stray survivors like Doddridge , who appeared blithely not to notice that at election time the entire school , with one or two flamboyant exceptions , howled its enthusiasm for the Tory Party . |
| 21 | The new government quickly showed its enthusiasm for the private medical sector which was growing rapidly in 1979 , and in 1980 Gerard Vaughan , Minister of Health , expressed the belief that it might grow to around one quarter of the size of the NHS . |
| 22 | ‘ Realist ’ films like these drew ecstatic praise from the local critics whose enthusiasm for the national cinema was a new phenomenon . |
| 23 | Now there 's a new book , Royal Jelly — the Guide to the World 's Richest Health Food ( Thorsons , £4.99 ) by Irene Stein , whose enthusiasm for the miracle supplement extends to selling it through her company . |
| 24 | His raptures over pretty strangers and their come-hither designer clothes were as over-the-top as his enthusiasm for a new cocktail . |
| 25 | Kurt Huber , managing director , expressed his enthusiasm for the project by saying , ‘ the Clayton Aniline Company has played its part in the life of this area for well over 100 years … and this is a further demonstration of our continuing support and commitment to the community of East Manchester ’ . |
| 26 | The NME succumbed to The Smiths success by parading a lengthy Smiths interview by Biba Kopf , a writer not known for his enthusiasm for the Smiths . |
| 27 | Herbert caught his enthusiasm for the idea . |
| 28 | He had lost most of his enthusiasm for the idea by now . |
| 29 | On the Glomar Challenger , and back on shore , Hall met others who shared his enthusiasm for the ocean floor . |
| 30 | Today more than ever , his enthusiasm for the car is tangible . |