Sentence examples for anxious thrill from inspiring English sources

Henry was aware, as he hadn't been in some time, of the anxious thrill of Friday afternoon.

For now, heartiest congratulations on your lovely news, and very best wishes for the anxious, thrilling, and ultimately joyful time to come.

They invoke the anxious thrills of an adolescent in a darkened room, illuminated with the blinking of multicolored lights, each machine the center of a group's attention, each group focusing on the fate of a gleaming ball going almost too fast to track, as it teases and taunts or promptly sweeps downward to its death, daring you to try again with another coin.

Its characters become incoherent (Ian turns abruptly from uncompromising rebel into a frightened cry-baby), while its pretensions to moral seriousness give way to a manipulation of anxious thrills that require the reader to stop caring about anything except whether these flimsy creations will save their skins and their money.

For me, it was impossible not to feel each and every one of their emotions like they were my own, I felt sad, worried, anxious, betrayed, thrilled, scared, along with all three of these wonderful, complex people.

The track is much like its visual counterpart: epileptic, anxious, and thrilling.

I was anxious and thrilled to be a wife to my sweet husband but had no clue what I was doing (I still don't).

If you're anxious for a thrill, catch a 15-minute tram ride from the centre of The Hague to the nearby beach and bungee jump off the end of the Scheveningen Pier out over the North Sea.

Not so Jon Ronson, a new boy anxious to understand the thrill of all that sniffing and spitting.

We could stretch ourselves to cover the down payment, closing costs and higher mortgage payments from here unto eternity — only to end up stressed and anxious, always wondering whether the thrill of getting what we wanted was worth the strain.

"Blueberries for Sal," by Robert McCloskey As a child, I was thrilled (and pleasantly anxious) by the account of that afternoon's parallel adventures: "Little Bear and Little Sal's mother and Little Sal and Little Bear's mother were all mixed up with each other among the blueberries on Blueberry Hill".