Word: thrillingly
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...time is being well-used too, because there’s a voyeuristic thrill in watching a slumbering inspiration drool, and snoring is a distraction in Lamont...
...Cinematically, director Stanley Kwan is a sober man and his film is imbued with the somber shades of romantic doom. He favors subdued over sensational. Handong and Lan Yu's one-night stand, for example, never gets to a state of hormonal frenzy: Kwan finds his thrill in the tender tremblings of first love. Production designer William Chang creates moody, claustrophobic interiors to convey the relationship's confining, emotionally charged intensity...
...lyrics read like poems. “Lonely,” the song Rockwell Church chose to kick off the night, for instance, finds the speaker reflecting on the mind games he and his girlfriend play when they fight: “It was a subtle implication / Supposed to thrill me to the core / You trade the caustic observation / For the burning metaphor . . . It’s strange the way we change into the things / We might become anyway...
...Those who enjoyed "Myst" for its emphasis on exploration and lack of explicit instruction will thrill to "Ico." After a long, wordless introductory movie about a boy taken to a crumbling, empty castle and imprisoned there, you find yourself as the boy, Ico, suddenly escaped from his cell. What to do? You start by looking around. This game rewards observation and logic far more than rapid hand-eye coordination. Unlike "Myst" it is 3-D, giving you a gods-eye view of Ico and his surroundings. Unlike the usual saucer-eyed, cutesy, whey-faced characters of Japanese-created games...
...finds cigar shops to be a lot of fun. “They’re so masculine, so you feel like a little rebel. [Cigar smoking] is definitely a traditionally male activity. If it weren’t, there wouldn’t be so much of a thrill,” she says. “It’s not very ladylike. It’s an assertion of strength...