1.   But her enthusiasm was swiftly dampened by a visit to a curio shop, where she bought several overpriced souvenirs.

2.   But the defeat did not dampen the enthusiasm of the Biarritz folk.

3.   A delay of two hours did not dampen their enthusiasm.

4.   Glamourous maybe, but years of staying away from home, and being accommodated in everything from a Seamans Mission to a Penthouse Suite, seriously dampens initial enthusiasm.

5.   Analysts said the bad news from Motorola and Yahoo! dampened investor enthusiasm but did not turn it off as has been the custom recently.

6.   And a rash of suicides by people under investigation or involved in the inquiry alarmed the nation and dampened public enthusiasm for the investigation.

7.   As late as two weeks ago half a million people were expected to converge on the Mall, but weeks of terrorist warnings by high government officials dampened enthusiasm.

8.   At midweek, Bill Parcells said there was nothing his Patriots could do to dampen the enthusiasm of this exhibition season.

9.   A report of stepped-up insider selling at Excite and other Internet companies apparently dampened enthusiasm Wednesday.

10.   Adrian Searle of The Guardian also was troubled a bit by the sometimes odd arrangement of works, but not enough to dampen his enthusiasm for the place.