The phrase "a sort of thrill" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a feeling of excitement or exhilaration that is somewhat vague or not fully defined.
Example: "As she stepped onto the stage, she felt a sort of thrill that she had never experienced before."
Alternatives: "a kind of excitement" or "a type of exhilaration".
If you were pretty and thin, trauma was either neutralised or elevated to a sort of thrilling plot twist in the general Beverly Hills 90210 of your beautiful life.
Just the colloquial phrase "popping the question" suggests a sort of controlled thrill, like a life-changing jack-in-the-box.
It's hard to write about it without hyperbole, but if you've seen dolphins in the wild, and you remember your very first sighting of them, it was of that order; a sort of primal thrill at the riches of the natural world.
Sitting in their kitchen, playing cards and waiting for their baby to come, they are in a sort of daze — thrilled that their child is about to be born, but aware that another child, the renegade boy, is out there, dying in the snow.
In a chapter titled "Detroit Motors," the mass production of automobiles is new enough to evoke a hellish sort of thrill, though used cars are being bought up by Henry Ford at twenty dollars apiece from customers too poor to keep them, and melted down for steel: The home of the open-hearth furnaces is a vast loud abode of giants: groans, a continual ringing, the falling of remote loads.
What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing bore describing their emotions in real time every waking hour.
This is one of those things that gets easier with practice and experience, but there's always a stressful, tense sort of thrill whenever I'm on a project.
"There's a real mixture of emotions that includes horror, nostalgia, regret – but also a kind of thrill, a sort of sublime excitement.
A Colonial Williamsburg, a re-enacting-the-past sort of thrill.
