Word: thrill
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...thematic show. The disadvantages: pieces that fit the theme may seem confusingly out of context and may not represent the best of the collection. Still, as Dorment said, "It ought to be possible to combine the intellectual stimulation such a shake-up undoubtedly achieves with the visual thrill you get from seeing works of art of the highest quality displayed perfectly...
...Thus my thrill over the downfall of Atkins isn't so simple as being able to eat whatever I want, which, if it's not clear, is bread. It's not even due to the fact that I think Atkins' high-cholesterol foods are dangerous for your heart, no matter how much weight you lose by gorging yourself on gut-filling fats. No, when Atkins Nutritionals filed for Chapter 11, it was a justification of my entire world view. Life is full of immutable truths, one of which happens to be that if you eat fewer calories than you burn...
...released results showed that compulsive gamblers, drinkers and drug users have high underlying levels of negative emotionality, a syndrome that includes nervousness, anger and a tendency to worry and feel victimized. Significantly, they also score lower in the so-called constraint category, meaning they are given to impulsiveness and thrill seeking. That's a bad combination, particularly when you throw drugs, drink or gambling into the mix. "It's like picking your poison," says psychologist Avshalom Caspi of King's College in London, one of the researchers in the study...
...through the verbal detritus of civilization and making fascinating sculptures out of what he finds. His poems register pain, but at a distance, transformed into a funny wistfulness, as if it all happened a couple of years and a couple of good martinis ago: "It's really quite a thrill/ when the moon rises above the hill/ and you've gotten over someone/ salty and mercurial, the only person you ever loved...
These days, blowing up monuments in big-budget action movies has lost the visceral thrill it once offered audiences...