Maybe a primal thrill at getting something out of thin air explains Wall Street's infatuation with cash payouts.
Vivian felt a little thrill at being able to carry off such sophisticated nonchalance, and she admired the way that Shelly slithered through her days and nights, shedding the most outrageous experiences as if they were simply the air she passed through.
Finally, budget travellers can glean a small thrill from staying at Albergo Ape Elbana.
It is such a thrill to be at one of the largest, most diverse institutions of higher learning in America -- one that just this week was named one of the top community colleges in the nation. (Applause.) More than 170, 000 students study across your eight campuses.
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Accustomed to long drives (it is 613 miles from Sidney to Missoula), the locals know that the thrill of rocketing along at 115mph is outweighed by a stiff neck and a tension headache.
The paradoxical romance of heavy industry, the destruction of old parts of town and their replacement with desolate tracts of soul-killing state modernism, and the thrill of teeming crowds at soccer games, on beaches, and aboard ferries are all ingeniously conjured through montage sequences, set to music, that suggest the culmination of the music video.
Why is the thrill gone this year - at least in the early stages of the tournament?
"It's a real thrill to be joining the Scarlets at such a pivotal time in their history, " said Harrington.
The main destination for thrill ride junkies is The Adventuredome at Circus Circus, which features the world's only indoor double-loop, double-corkscrew roller coaster, The Canyon Blaster (shown).
Regarded as a national treasure in Australia, Mr Winton is skilful at conveying not only the thrill of surfing, but also its terrors.
But nothing at the fair could match the thrill of seeing Johnny in person.
Some weeks, like that one, the thrill was in "crashing" a cover at the last minute when a big story broke close to our Sunday deadline.
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It was always a thrill to meet Walsh in his office, then at the Stanford campus.
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Dr. Samuel Putnam , an assistant professor of psychology at Bowdoin College in Maine, says thrill seeking behavior is mostly genetic, and that signs of it--from climbing the highest tree to swinging as high as possible on a swing set--can be recognized from very early ages.
It is a peculiar thrill to walk the same hills they did and look at the same views.
Ask yourself this: Did you feel a thrill when you saw the imperious Armstrong cross the line at the 2002 Tour de France seven minutes ahead of his nearest rival?
Those who follow Major League Baseball and were fortunate enough to be on hand at Yankee Stadium last week were in for a Reagan thrill as well.
Another 200 miles north is Carnarvon, where we lingered only long enough to hear local boosters tout the thrill of driving the Kingsford Smith Mail Run, a route starting at the town's fully automated public toilet and ending inland some 500 miles farther on at Meekatharra.
You would think a real-live seat at a real-live sporting event would be enough of a thrill, but nonstop excitement can't be guaranteed anymore.
Riding the gyrations of the stock market up and down does not come without a certain amount of thrill, but many investors would gladly find another place in their lives for thrill-seeking and opt instead for an investment portfolio that lets them sleep at night.
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Travelers on a design quest are willing to go to great lengths to find a place NO ONE has been to (at least no one they know) in order to experience the thrill of sleeping in a home designed by James Turrell or retreat to an island peppered with the works of Tadao Ando in remotest Japan (see: Naoshima Island).
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Then head to the boardwalk for thrill rides, saltwater taffy and go-kart racing before taking a pit stop at the one of the numerous dining or nightlife options.
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