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  • This too-eager diagnosis, though, is redeemed by the book's otherwise discerning treatment of Brontë's life and strivings, from the horror of her early education to the savage triumph of "Wuthering Heights," published only a year before Brontë's death from tuberculosis at 30.

    Five Best: John Matteson 2012

  • Cedric the Entertainer, played a too-eager date in a 2001 Bud Light ad.

    Where are the stars of past Super Bowl ads now? 2009

  • All the fluttery sucking up and covering up is similar to the too-eager suitor.

    Obama, Daniel Pearl, and freedom of the press 2010

  • Craig's peculiar pantomime with his hands and feet, though laughable, is not illegal and good thing for him that his coitus was interrupted by a too-eager cop wanting to score another statistic.

    Can Larry Craig be Found Guilty in the Court of Public Opinion 2008

  • With the slightly too-eager encouragement of our server, we ordered two appetizers the carpaccio di manzo and the funghi assoluti pictured above, in the top row.

    REVIEW: Terroni Restaurant (Hollywood, CA) Ron Buckmire 2007

  • With the slightly too-eager encouragement of our server, we ordered two appetizers the carpaccio di manzo and the funghi assoluti pictured above, in the top row.

    Archive 2007-12-01 Ron Buckmire 2007

  • In Marsha Hunt we have one of the funniest Mary Bennetts on screen, with her broad, almost campy playing of the unattractive and dull sister, particularly in her too-eager reaction when her mother admonishes her to smile at a party.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Jacqueline T Lynch 2007

  • In Marsha Hunt we have one of the funniest Mary Bennetts on screen, with her broad, almost campy playing of the unattractive and dull sister, particularly in her too-eager reaction when her mother admonishes her to smile at a party.

    Pride and Prejudice (1940) Jacqueline T Lynch 2007

  • The cross was Dylan's to bear, he knew, because his own brain boiled with pedantry, with too-eager trivia ready to burst loose at any moment.

    I am not sure Jenny Davidson 2005

  • The cross was Dylan's to bear, he knew, because his own brain boiled with pedantry, with too-eager trivia ready to burst loose at any moment.

    Archive 2005-09-01 Jenny Davidson 2005

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