This is a collective of scientists, psychologists, sociologists and architects "dedicated to the practical pursuit of creating, producing and examining new forms of thrilling experience", which is just what Merlin and I need.
Regard it as a prog-rock album in comics form — indulgent, bombastic, technically astounding — and its morose grandeur becomes kind of thrilling.
The relentless energy was kind of thrilling.
Very James Bond, spooky but sort of thrilling.
If only Braffet weren't so addicted to the cheaper forms of literary thrill-seeking, "Last Seen Leaving" might take the reader on a more satisfying ride.
Once their problems were viewed mainly as a form of road rage or thrill seeking.
"The sexiest cowboy sweepstakes has been a thrill, a form of fan engagement I couldn't possibly have imagined when I began," he said via e-mail.
That power can take the form of reputation, adulation, or the thrill of knowing oneself to be the orchestrator of others' fates — of being a sort of mini-god.
The European glory nights returned to Celtic Park and provided a form of interest-substitute for the thrill-of-the-chase that was lacking at home.
They treat a serious subject — abuse, persecution, pathology — with crude humor and raw imagery, and subvert a form of entertainment associated with the childhood thrill of defying parental strictures about "good" and "bad" books.
