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Example sentences for: gung-ho

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His camera becomes increasingly energized, and Bulworth's gung-ho tastelessness takes on an exhilarating life of its own.
Gung-ho , which once had a positive connotation, is now used derisively among servicemen to describe `individuals or organizations in a state of active and zealous military enthusiasm,' and usually modifies other words such as “sonofabitch,” etc.
It is a contraction of gung-yeh ho-dzo , `industrial cooperation, 'and it caught on because it is easy to pronounce, as in 'Nam or the States . 'Nam by itself is no more derogatory or misleading than shortening airplane or telephone or gung-ho .
At the time of the Gulf War, a study showed that a majority of heavy CNN viewers (people who watched seven hours a day) who supported the action believed that Kuwait was a democracy, and the soldiers here are portrayed in a similar state of gung-ho naiveté.
Under the leadership of a gung-ho producer, Cynthia Topping (Ellen DeGeneres), the network holds auditions in public places around the country and comes up with Ed Pekurny (Matthew McConaughey), a 31-year-old San Francisco video store clerk who is cute and unthreatening and unformed.