And anyone familiar with Nascar knows that fans are entranced by incendiary crashes even if they prefer that their drivers emerge from their stock cars without a scratch.
Pete Sampras was staring across the net at the one player who has been able to defuse his atomic serves with his own, and the one opponent who has been able to emerge from their matches with barely a scratch over the years.
Since the burning of the man last week, we've all found ourselves amidst the yearly social media orgy of photos, stories, and head scratching discoveries to emerge from The Playa.
Ten years ago, a computer programming language called Scratch emerged from the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
A 5-year-old girl who was feared drowned with her grandfather on a boating trip startled searchers when she emerged from the woods — naked, scratched and holding mulberries.
The cop underestimated his ability to remain British, and Sour emerged from the car without a scratch right around the time the other cops decided they were done with the rest of us.
Though Zaffron specializes in lovingly made, fresh from scratch food, and every dish that emerges from the kitchen is wonderful, the lamb dishes are particularly exceptional.
A couple of creatures with matted hair emerged from some bushes and surrounded the car, scratching and howling.
On that Brooklyn night at the philharmonic, Markowitz emerged from his backstage rumpus with Schumer without a scratch.
Nova emerged from the well after a long rescue without a scratch, the Daily Mail reports.
