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Example sentences for: eagerness

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While Newsweek shows an admirable eagerness to improve itself, Time may already have achieved perfection--and not just by stealing Slate
And when Glazer asks why this is so, he finds not the obscurantism of black academics like Leonard Jeffries or Asa Hilliard, but the hard fact of black experience, and "the fundamental refusal of other Americans to accept blacks, despite their eagerness, as suitable candidates for assimilation."
A story profiles Mark Willes, publisher of the Los Angeles Times . While journalists detest his eagerness to mix business and editorial (ad guys and editors work together to plan profitable special sections), this is nothing new in the newspaper world.
But the GOP's eagerness to embrace them does suggest a certain hypocrisy.
It "positively exudes a puppy-like friendliness and eagerness to ingratiate" (Donald Lyons, the Wall Street Journal ).(Learn more about the protests against the play; read Jacob Weisberg's review in Slate .)