Like Macaulay, he was exasperatingly blind and bigoted in regard to the things in which he had no personal interest, though the spheres of their respective enthusiasms and antipathies were altogether different.
She was a lady of secret enthusiasms which sheltered themselves behind habits of the most business-like severity.
He fans smouldering revolt into flame, he incites passions, and creates misguided enthusiasms which lead to endless trouble to all!
He could remember women, liaisons, passion phrases and greatenthusiasms but, curiously, they seemed all identical.
She noticed that Mrs. Gilchrist was growing old--too old to share the enthusiasms of the day.
His keen admirations and highenthusiasms made of him throughout this time a disciple.
The Matisse of exotic inspiration came from the studio of Gustave Moreau who, by his intelligent toleration of the virile enthusiasms of his pupils, facilitated the way toward complete self-expression.
His savages, ready to kill or love with equal unconcern, bring up to us our childhood enthusiasms for the tales of Swift, Defoe and Pierre Loti.
In a pathetic way these poor enthusiasms may be justified, but only because the very conception of a rational life lies entirely beyond the horizon.
With the emergence of the bourgeois classes a self-satisfied positivism, vividly portrayed in the person of Cosimo de' Medici, superseded the passions and enthusiasms of a previous age.
Amid that clamor of far-off enthusiasms she detected no controversial note.
Even the large manufacturing city where, for some years, my young enthusiasms were chained to an accountant's desk, was not without its romantic opportunities.
Smith, who cared deeply for New York, and who was moving unconsciously along the sunny way that led to Helen Maitland, found that never two enthusiasms welded so readily as these.
Without theenthusiasms then cherished the independent in politics would have been less courageous.
What will give to youth visions, ideals, and enthusiasms is worth all other parts of culture, for out of these grow the noblest results of human willing, thinking, and doing.
And these letters may suggest anew one of the most important lessons of education, that without enthusiasms no man can do any great or noble work in the world.
Those are not your enthusiasms and passions, I take it?
Let me tell you, Mr. Valentine, that a life devoted to the Cause of Humanity has enthusiasms and passions to offer which far transcend the selfish personal infatuations and sentimentalities of romance.
Turn your thoughts to real life; throw the enthusiasms you have culled from literature into the virtues of your sex.
Only when the monarchs received the support of their French-hating subjects could an equilibrium of force and of enthusiasms yield the long-sought opportunity for a durable peace.
Now that Liberty fled affrighted, the errantenthusiasms of the gifted authoress clung for a brief space to Bonaparte.
But he was a boy, too, in his excessive restless vitality, and hitherto with all his enthusiasms he had been a somewhat cold boy.
We have taken him up to the attic and to the farthest ends of the pig sty, we have laid down the law concerning our own pet enthusiasms and tolerated him while he told us about his own.
We are changing from the older men who required enthusiasms to drive them and violent exaggerations to cause them to move.
Never again can we hear that cry of Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite, the enthusiasms of a nation for its ideals.
And therefore consider again, before you brand beliefs and the teachings and enthusiasmsas untruths, because they are exaggerations, because they are unworkable as they stand.
Enthusiasms and sympathies in other people made her laugh with her characteristic burst of sudden laughter.
Such an outlet for her enthusiasms would occupy and prevent her finding out that--that--well, that he no longer felt for her all that he had imagined.
He no longer restrained his mockery of her enthusiasms, enthusiasms which she had fondly imagined he shared.
And whenever he found his ideal to be in practice working at a friction or stopped dead, his unnourished and acute enthusiasms at once sought a scapegoat, discovered a responsible agent, and suggested a violent outlet, for the delay.
His work as editor and writer was merely one expression of the enthusiasms that occupied his mind.
Mr. Wilson, Mr. Bryan, and their associates in the cabinet easily found an explanation that was satisfactory to themselves and to the political enthusiasms upon which they had come into power.
His tergiversation of mood proves only that there were two Walpoles, not that the Walpole of the romantic enthusiasms was insincere.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "enthusiasms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
