This time, though, his frenetic behavior had nothing to do with any drug other than genuine excitement.

He could see a genuine excitement in her eyes.

No chance, in other words, for genuine excitement, just the manufactured variety.

Fear coupled with genuine excitement was the dominant mood of the day.

This didn't sound like marketing hype; there was genuine excitement in his voice.

So it was with genuine excitement that I hurried to class our first day back.

Something that might have been genuine excitement sparked in her eyes.

I literally look forward with genuine excitement to next week; you have indeed a great talent.

Yet for genuine excitement and thrill, give me the small boat.

By the opera's end there was a sense of genuine excitement in the audience.