overeager

• “LAQUER: Oh, he always knew and associated himself with what is called overeager assistants -- he could have written one line, he could have pressed one button and the thing would have stopped, but he never did.”

  The Long Road to Freedom: Russia & Glasnost

• “He couldn't stop looking at her and was starting to feel stupid about it, like he was some kind of overeager schoolboy in the presence of his first girlfriend.”

  FAN FICTION: The Talisman, an X-Files Tale

• “How many producers will actually remix a remix, and how often do people pay that kind of overeager editing any mind?”

  Prefix

• “Not so long ago, these very same people would have seen such talk as the kind of overeager self-congratulation that blinds a nation to its own mistakes and vulnerabilities.”

  NPR Topics: News

• “We could do with a few slip-ups – basketballers proving too tall to walk through the doors, the "wrong type of mud" at the BMX, an overeager health-and-safety steward snuffing out the Olympic flame.”

  The Guardian: Sebastian Coe must be running on Jedi mind control| Emma John

• “Looks like reports of a Windows update causing a Black Screen of Death were just an antivirus company trying to get some free press, and overeager reporters willing to play along.”

  A girl welcomes Cthulhu (link roundup)

• “• Video of an overeager fanboy charging the pearly gates and getting denied!”

  Boing Boing

• “He had seemed a bit overeager for conversation, hungry for it, and perhaps that was the shadow of what was coming.”

  Fictionaut: So If You See The Vulture Coming

• “Doula Jen, as Sarah had nicknamed her, arrived at our house to find one overeager student with freshly sharpened pencils and a crisp new notepad.”

  Simon & Schuster: Times Two

• “But the majority of the Chinese artists who are squabbled over by blue chip dealers and by museums eager to feature them in prestigious one-person shows have one thing in common: The political and economic history between Mao's infamous cultural revolution and present-day China's overeager capitalism provides a recurrent touchstone in their art's imagery.”

  The Huffington Post: Robert Ayers: Wang Huaiqing's Chinese Art in Seattle

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