It was strangely exhilarating to see Ed Miliband with at least three parties politically to his left, the Scottish and Welsh Nationalists and the Greens, with even Nick Clegg somewhat shamelessly rediscovering the leftish Lib Dem principles he largely betrayed for his five years in office with the Tories.
But it was exhilarating to watch kids hopping over metro barriers, smoking weed and shouting, walking wherever they wanted, disobeying every single one of the tight rules that normally control access to the station.
Madrid were not awful by any means, and they had chances in a game that was fast and exhilarating, that wore you out just watching it, but they did complete fewer passes than in any other match.
The Oscars showered on Mendes's stylish and exhilarating film are none the less a heartening riposte to dumbing-down and juvenilisation in commercial American cinema.
Fernando, a 30-year-old aerospace engineer who was dressed as The Flash, said: It was exhilarating, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
He was the soloist on Mozart's Violin Concerto No 4, which combined technical precision and a breezy sweetness to exhilarating effect, with Barenboim playing the hire-wire act with two vertiginous solos.
The exhilarating boat trip, lasting 36 hours, took me across the notoriously stormy Straits of Magellan, through the glacier-lined Beagle Channel, and to places where Darwin had concluded that life barely existed at all.
"It is exciting to me that these two books that came through that experimental prize, are by us, are by women," says Smith. "On Tuesday night we [the Baileys shortlisted authors] all read at the Royal Festival Hall, and the range, the versatility, was exhilarating.
It's an intriguing and exhilarating film, which like Birdman uses the jittery, hyperactive quality of a drum solo to incite nervous excitement.
Tall buildings well sited can be exhilarating.
