There is excitement attaching itself to the fight that was not there even a couple of days ago.
One criterion Brotto advocates adding is a dim or missing sense of excitement during sex itself.
"It doesn't just encapsulate the music in the show," Mr. Laird said, "it says something about the excitement of theater itself.
There is a splendid riff where Greene expounds on the detective story as the literature of Nemesis: "There was the excitement of sin itself; excitement in guilt and fear, even in being unmasked... these elements were active in most good writing".
The boy is caught midway between Jewish ritual and the excitement of Odessa itself with its harbor, its English sea captains, its Turkish traders, its Kirghiz wet nurses and its music teachers who sent Jascha Heifetz and Efrem Zimbalist into the world.
After initial excitement, however, the chocolate itself caused some disappointment.
The competent, always-in-control appearance that Mr. Romney puts forth does not lend itself to excitement.
After that accidental spark of excitement, though, the show itself is something of a letdown.
But this is not to say that there isn't also real excitement about the work itself.
And for some special exhibitions the site even takes on the excitement of a show itself, as it did for the 2010 Cartier-Bresson exhibition.
