The camcorder had been one of Erics short-lived enthusiasms.

Skeets father was as shallow as a petri dish, culturing one short-lived enthusiasm after another, most of them as destructive as salmonella.

Erik Butler, a photography professor at San Francisco’s Academy of Art University, said, “The product seems really cool, but might have a short-lived enthusiasm.”

Surgeons who attempted xenotransplantation experienced intense media scrutiny and attacks from American anti-vivisectionists, who also criticised the short-lived enthusiasm and ambition of surgeons for new techniques.

NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street's short-lived enthusiasm over a $586 billion Chinese stimulus package has given way, once again, to anxiety about the U.S. economy.

When she majored in history at University College in Galway, she joined the drama society in the same serendipitous spirit ("I was a person of short-lived enthusiasms") with which she had taken a course in boat-building.

In its opening pages, he leaves her, fed up with her short-lived enthusiasms, his older son's obsession with tennis and indifference to college, and his own feeling of "going through the motions of a life someone else had ordered for him."

Following the pledge that all Balkan states that have not yet joined are also welcome, after the slow start of negotiations with Croatia and Turkey and following short-lived enthusiasm about a possible quick accession procedure involving Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus, it has become noticeably quiet.