When one of the dozens of superstar North Carolina potters has a kiln opening, however, excitement rises to a fever pitch.
As the crowd's excitement rose to fever pitch, the Scot responded magnificently to fight his way back into contention and hold his nerve when the going got tough.
Excitement rises as we all walk towards the football pitch, where the Australian ambassador cuts one ribbon and the manager of the Hilton Hanoi Opera Hotel, which has contributed much of the artificial turf, cuts another.
With water on either side and the salty smell of sea air filling the cars, the level of excitement rose and almost everyone stood up to take in the extraordinary view.
He has not seen anything like this in 11 straight games at Old Trafford, and the excitement rose further when Agüero thumped a 20-yard shot against Robles' upright 10 minutes before the interval.
Fanboy excitement rises to nuclear levels with the new Batman movie from Christopher Nolan, starring Christian Bale as Batman, Anne Hathaway as Catwoman, and Tom Hardy as the terrifying terrorist Bane, who poses a mighty challenge to the Dark Knight's power.
He is a short, plump man with a mustache, who walks with the darting movements of a bantam cock and has a remarkably high voice, almost like a woman's, which at moments of excitement rises to the falsetto of a phonograph record played at the wrong speed.
And in a hundred observatories there had been suppressed excitement, rising almost to shouting pitch, as the two remote bodies had rushed together, and a hurrying to and fro to gather photographic apparatus and spectroscope, and this appliance and that, to record this novel astonishing sight, the destruction of a world.
We'll snuggle on the couch and she'll sound out words on flashcards, with a flush of excitement rising to her cheeks when she figures one out and says, "I can do this, Mom!" In that moment a few months back, when I finally added Down syndrome to Penny's birth story, I took her chin in my hand so I could look into her eyes, now a sparkling green with a dark blue outline.
Eighty thousand fans are piling into the stadium, excitement rising.
