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Literary notes about enthusiastic (AI summary)

In literature, the term "enthusiastic" is often employed to evoke a sense of passionate energy and vivid emotional commitment. It can describe a character’s sparkling demeanor, as when a face is depicted as brimming with enthusiasm ([1]), or convey an individual's vigorous interest in simple pursuits, like that of an avid gardener ([2]). The word also underscores the fervor of public life and collective gatherings, seen in lively crowds and impassioned speeches ([3], [4]), while at times hinting at a more reflective zeal in pursuits of knowledge or creative expression ([5], [6]). Whether illustrating a burst of spontaneous admiration ([7]) or charting the energetic spirit that underlies social and political movements ([8], [9]), "enthusiastic" encapsulates both an inner ardor and its outward manifestation in a variety of contexts.
  1. Her husband, delighted, gazed tenderly at her enthusiastic face, listened, and from time to time put in a question.
    — from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  2. Lady Belinda is an enthusiastic gardener.
    — from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney
  3. Everywhere she addressed immense and enthusiastic crowds.
    — from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) by Ida Husted Harper
  4. Just then, the door opened suddenly, and Monsieur Tournevau came in, and was greeted with enthusiastic cries of “Long live Tournevau!”
    — from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant
  5. The enthusiastic physician described his journeyings and difficulties faithfully in a paper published at Helsingfors in Swedish in 1834.
    — from Kalevala : the Epic Poem of Finland — Complete
  6. Our great poet, Mr. Browning, author of 'Paracelsus,' &c., is enthusiastic in his admiration of the rhythm."
    — from The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
  7. It seemed as though no one could take his eyes off her for fear of missing that rare moment in her enthusiastic face.
    — from White Nights and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  8. In this enthusiastic spirit, I dropped into the ranks of freedom’s friends, and went forth to the battle.
    — from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
  9. In this way it managed to bring timorous folk over to its side—the most enthusiastic adherents of a new faith!
    — from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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