half-eager

I didn't think Jolie did a bad job and initially I was with her - I like exactly the things Bill does about her half-unwilling/half-eager approach to her ersatz son... but deeper into this long movie I grew restless with Eastwood framing the actress instead of letting her cut loose.

Another batch of Hot-n-Crusty Arbo Minis! Arbogast 2009

Karen Castleton asked herself over and time a door opened Susan turned a half, half-eager face expectantly towards it.lately. last few weeks she had been quieter than Susan McNamara was already quiet to the silence.

two women Cole, Martina 1999

Walter Aurifaber broke free with a whimper of half-eager, half-doubtful hope and approval, and darted some yards into the open.

The Sanctuary Sparrow Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1983

From their attitudes, some of them were carrying weapons and were half-eager, half-afraid to use them.

Victory Lester Del Rey 1954

Her own azure eyes sparkled as brightly as they, and I noted again in their clear depths the half-eager approval as they rested upon O'Keefe's lithe, well-knit figure and his keen, clean-cut face.

The Moon Pool 1919

It almost broke her heart to see him lean forward and look in that half-eager, half-fretted way toward the man who was speaking, as though his blindness were a barrier between their minds, a barrier he instinctively tried to beat down.

The Glory of the Conquered The Story of a Great Love Susan Glaspell 1915

It almost broke her heart to see him lean forward and look in that half-eager, half-fretted way toward the man who was speaking, as though his blindness were a barrier between their minds, a barrier he instinctively tried to beat down.

The Glory of the Conquered The Story of a Great Love Susan Glaspell 1915

It almost broke her heart to see him lean forward and look in that half-eager, half-fretted way toward the man who was speaking, as though his blindness were a barrier between their minds, a barrier he instinctively tried to beat down.

The Glory of the Conquered The Story of a Great Love Susan Glaspell 1915

Her own azure eyes sparkled as brightly as they, and I noted again in their clear depths the half-eager approval as they rested upon O'Keefe's lithe, well-knit figure and his keen, clean-cut face.

The Moon Pool Abraham Merritt 1913

A message awaited her at the house that she would go to Isabel in her sitting-room, and she went, half-eager, half-diffident.

Greatheart 1910