wave of enthusiasm
collocation in Englishmeaningsofwaveandenthusiasm
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wave
noun[C]
uk/weɪv/us/weɪv/
a raised line of water that moves across the surface of an area of water, especially ...
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enthusiasm
noun
uk/ɪnˈθjuː.zi.æz.əm/us/ɪnˈθuː.zi.æz.əm/
a feeling of energetic interest in a particular subject or activity and an eagerness to be involved ...
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(Definition ofwaveandenthusiasmfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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If physicians allow themselves to be uncritically swept up in thewaveofenthusiasmfor so-called alternative medicine, they risk misinforming and harming their patients.
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He is at pains to repeat his misgivings about the recentwaveofenthusiasmfor genetical work on hunter-gatherers and suchlike small, primitive populations.
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Yet around the middle of the twelfth century, there developed a newwaveofenthusiasmfor the idea of mathematical proportions as applied to the parameter of musical time.
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Unlikely at best, we have to assume, since thewaveofenthusiasmfor female court singers during the 1580s did not yet extend to their official recognition as court composers.
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The amount of talk generated by a newwaveofenthusiasmfor a given perspective is typically hugely disproportionate to any enduring policy result or outcome.
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Some experts objected to this name on the grounds that matter is indestructible, but the name stuck throughout the first greatwaveofenthusiasmfor large municipal incinerators.
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As a result of these schools which are now being built, the whole locality abounds with a greatwaveofenthusiasmfor education.
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Do not let it be imagined that because hours are reduced there is an immensewaveofenthusiasmamong the workers.
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This also is carrying on a post-warwaveofenthusiasmfor education.
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In 1918 there was another greatwaveofenthusiasm.
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If we forget this, the presentwaveofenthusiasmfor the environment may well run into the sands.
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There is a realwaveofenthusiasmamong a lot of men to be doing something.
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Her arrival created a surgingwaveofenthusiasmwhich many of us can even now remember, and that wave has never receded.
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A greatwaveofenthusiasm, very proper enthusiasm, rushed over the country at that time for an improvement in the conditions of the workers in the factories.
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I think that we are returning now to a period when there is anotherwaveofenthusiasmfor town planning in this country, though it is rather different in character.
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There was a hugewaveofenthusiasm, but arguably due to lack of infrastructure and professionalism, tangible results were rare.
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The militia must not be confused with the volunteer units created in awaveofenthusiasmin the second half of the nineteenth century.
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I do not know why it is, but in this country we seem to go in waves of enthusiasm.
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That is to say, you have waves of enthusiasm and of movement which for the time seem to sweep everything before them.
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Housing comes in waves of enthusiasm.
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