anticipation

“He’s playing in rhythm. He’s playing on time. … He’s obviously got the mobility to make you pay as a runner, but I think he’s reading well. … He throws the ball with great accuracy and anticipation.”

Shakespeare wrote that the eve of battle is as dramatic as the fight itself: full of anticipation, promises and theatre.

His youngest son jumped up and down with anticipation as he stepped off the bus.

As people in the audience spread their curtido, or pickled cabbage and carrots, on their pupusas, others await for their food with anticipation, while some choose to stick to drinks.

You can say you are building a ballpark, but the anticipation accelerates when the community sees what the ballpark might look like.