Word: thrilling
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...thrives on confrontation, on the thrill of the fight," says his friend Brown. "Rob likes to get it out there in print...
Despite the different paths the three men have followed in the years since their graduations, they have shared at least one common experience: the thrill of receiving the prize, which they describe as "unforgettable" and "amazing...
When history delivers something that looks like a miracle (the fall of the Berlin Wall, for example, or the collapse of Soviet communism), the mind experiences a kind of electricity, the thrill of beginning, of seeing a new world. That was what it felt like last week to watch South Africa. Here was a spectacle of true transformation...
...ever got the thrill of finding the ball, a security guard would soon be on your case, ordering you to return it to the field. (Harvard is such a financially-poor institution, you know) Imagine that someone asked you to return a ball during a Red Sox game or a puck in the Beanpot hockey game...
...stunning experience. The long-awaited arrival of Adolf Hitler threw the crowd into a frenzy. Screams of delight mounted to a ferver pitch as the man drew nearer, until the surging mass of the people gave way to utter hysteria. Rougemont felt something uncontrollable stir within him--the thrill of mass hysteria--and so powerful was the feeling that he almost succumbed. But something withing him rebelled. Ionesco relates Rougemont's story with curiosity in his notes from November 1960; "just then it was not his mind that resisted, not arguments formulated in his brain, but his whole being...