Todd Gitlin: It was thrilling, exhilarating, challenging.
None of the four scores was originally composed for dance: but each offers an exhilarating, challenging inspiration.
At its worst, late on Sunday, a few pedestrians battled their way home, even a few city blocks presenting a treacherous, if exhilarating, challenge.
Chilangos, as the people who live here are called, are devoted to their city; their solidarity comes from the exacting and exhilarating challenge of living here.
Record collecting had been a subculture, too, and, for that vanishing breed, finding albums proved to be an exhilarating challenge, one that involved scouring garage sales, sifting through bargain bins.
Being a consummate professional, Senna would have adapted to the revised thinking but the chances are he would have missed the more exhilarating challenge of having to overtake a rival on the race track rather than when he was stationary in the pit lane.
The restoration of Mendips posed an exhilarating challenge to the tweedy experts from the Trust, who are more at home cataloging Chippendale cabinets and Queen Anne settees than scouring junk stores, auctions and flea markets for plastic Bakelite wall switches, checkered linoleum and floral print porcelain from one of the least inspired eras in decorative history.
At its best then, as in the parking-garage showdown between Ari and his master, Terrance McQuewick (Malcolm McDowell), in Season 2, "Entourage" has been an exhilarating challenge to the immune system, one that leaves you more awake, more amused and even a little more alive.
Whether an exhilarating challenge for the aspiring mountaineer or an invigorating hike for the experienced climber, the journey to the top of the Philippines leaves visitors in awe of this archipelago in the middle of the Pacific.
It's exhilarating, challenging, rewarding and sometimes really scary.
