Word: thrilled
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...such murders are driven by a dark, even sexual pleasure, and while remorse is often associated with the acts - which accounts for the long lapses that can occur between them - those tuggings of conscience are quickly overcome by the impulse to kill again. "There is a charge and a thrill associated with the murders," says Samenow...
...showing the reason why creationism or intelligent design maintains such a grip on so many of our people. The emotionalism, the rapture that it entails, science can’t give us. The fact that science becomes cut and dried and creationism provides us with mystery and thrill and alleviation of our by-the-numbers existence, it becomes a crapshoot for us: go to heaven, pray, and my life will be saved. When the applause died down after the actors took their final bows, Asner was the last to leave the stage, making sure to collect all of his various...
...coming of age at Harvard in 1968, when being female entailed being quadded and new suitemates hotly debate so-called “liberated sex.” “Oh, fuck politics,” declares suitemate Maeve. Darling describes how a “little thrill runs through the room. The word is still scandalous, brand new, and bright with squalor.” Yet despite its opening, “Necessary Sins” isn’t actually a memoir about Harvard, but rather one from that so-hot-right-now, sex-filled...
...loss, with the expression of a person on an afternoon stroll?Not many. And that’s what elevates the NCAA Tournament over the World Cup, the Olympics, and any other global sporting event. And that same quality confines it to a US audience grown accustomed to the thrill of an event played by those amateur athletes whose mistakes often carry more import than their brilliance (see Chris Webber’s timeout in the 1993 Final Four). At the same time that the NCAA Tournament consumes the US for a month every spring, it remains obscure throughout...
Used to be, the young had to go to a horror film to get that sickly-sweet thrill of knife on neck, chain saw into cranium. Now the violence comes to you, child, in advertising on your TV, computer or bus shelter...