But just as this great night was escalating in excitement, Sam wanted to remember Martin Luther King whose death day is April 4.
His famous cape routine during "Please, Please, Please" — in which his onstage aide draped a leopard cape around Brown's shoulders and led him toward the wings, only to have him repeatedly shake it off and run back to the microphone — escalated the excitement.
Other assessments are kinder, and recordings of Valentino's broadcasts reveal a voice infused with enthusiasm, the excitement escalating with every "and here comes the pitch".
The tragedy of the Hungarian revolution and the disgrace of the Suez Crisis were closely intertwined from the very beginning, jostling for space on newspaper front pages, feeding off one another so that the excitement escalated day by day.
Escalating messiness is required to maintain the pitch of excitement, so out comes the powder and paint.
When Betsy, Jennifer and I got to talking, we decided to involve a charity and our excitement really escalated.
Excitement over toy company GoldieBlox's girl power message is getting buried by its escalating legal battle with the Beastie Boys, whose song "Girls" was the focus of the company's viral video advertisement last month.
The dispute keeps escalating.
"This has become routine and is escalating, escalating, escalating".
He'll escalate and keep escalating.
