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For Gladwell's purposes, this puzzle is best explained by J. T. MacCurdy, a Canadian psychiatrist who posited that because most people did not experience a bomb going off very close to them, they weren't traumatized; instead they experienced "excitement with a flavor of invulnerability".
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Many works have shown that 3D images help users experience excitement, a feeling of presence, and enjoyment, and even performance advantages for depth-related tasks [1].
I wanted to somehow speak to the mixed feelings I was experiencing; excitement, for the life I was about to begin, and nostalgia, for the one I was leaving behind.
It's a hidden-then-inescapable-once-you-notice-it form of objectifying women; the "all close gal-pals are half an appletini away from lezzing out" undercurrent to Hollywood's portrayal of female friendships embodies the notion that a woman can never experience excitement, happiness or interpersonal intimacy that doesn't eventually lead to sexual activity.
While most of their classmates will be celebrating the end of high school, the beginning of college, and perhaps be a little nervous at living away from home, these one-percenters will be experiencing excitement and some nervousness of an entirely different sort.
By the time they're picked up by the first ship on the scene, the Carpathia, they've experienced sufficient excitement for a couple of lifetimes.
Comics represented poor value for pocket money to a greedy, speedy reader concerned primarily with the fatness of purchased reading matter, so I never experienced the excitement of agitating for the new Beano on a weekly visit to the newsagent.
I realized that this was the first time I had experienced genuine excitement since Mom had died.
More women (9.8percentthanhan men (5.4percentt) lacked enjoyment in sex, felt anxious during sex (8percentt compared with 4.8percentt of men) and experienced no excitement or arousal during sex (8percentt compared with 3.2percentt of men).
"If you've ever heard the brilliant unison horns that play the starting phrases on records such as 'Knock On Wood,' 'Hold On, I'm Comin' ' or 'In the Midnight Hour,' then you've experienced the excitement that the Memphis Horns can stir when opening a song," fellow Memphis studio stalwart Booker T. Jones said while presenting the lifetime achievement award.
They also experienced the excitement of seeing their efforts, both individually and as a team, produce results, and the thrill of knowing that they were contributing new understanding and new perspectives on the problem of antibiotic-resistant infections.
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