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- noun Plural form of
enthusiasm .
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Examples
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Park is autistic, and her room is a window on what she calls enthusiasms and others call obsessions.
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One of the more unexpected of his literary enthusiasms is for Samuel Johnson.
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One of the more unexpected of his literary enthusiasms is for Samuel Johnson.
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One of the more unexpected of his literary enthusiasms is for Samuel Johnson.
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The pretentious word for these enthusiasms is "psychogeography".
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The pretentious word for these enthusiasms is "psychogeography".
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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In 1981, he wrote a scathing attack on the massive nuclear freeze movement, which he now describes as “hysteria.” [...] “I don’t get caught in enthusiasms,” Krauthammer said of the nuclear freeze movement and of Obama’s mass appeal.
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As for Krauthammer’s claim that he doesn’t “get caught in enthusiasms,” any casual examination of his work reveals that Krauthammer is in fact enormously enthusiastic about at least a couple of things: American military power, and the necessity of vigorously applying that power against the “existential” threat of radical Islamic extremism.
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Don't allow the self-appointed guardians of the poor to tell you that your enthusiasms are the artifacts of social and economic self-interest.
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Studying your enthusiasms is the shortest route to discovering your core self, and finding experiences that are likely to stick.
SHED Your Stuff, Change Your Life Julie Morgenstern 2008
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