Grimly: "After they sustain heavy casualties from excessive enthusiasm."

His voice was wrong for his body: it should have belonged to a kid with rosy cheeks and excessive enthusiasm.

This winter and spring have seen the mania - a term defined by Webster's as "excessive or unreasonable enthusiasm."

'Yes, of course,' said Ianthe with rather excessive enthusiasm!

But if this was the plan, Roberto followed it with excessive enthusiasm.

He was 'astonished' by the 'excessive enthusiasm'I had shown for the Education!

Catcher did look like a victim of excessive enthusiasm.

She sprang to her feet and flung herself upon her closet with what struck Victor as excessive enthusiasm.

He concludes that "extreme caution is warranted against excessive enthusiasm, as corrections often come quickly."

A little thought recalled where he had first seen that eager gesture and the manner so intense that it betrayed an excessive enthusiasm.