As for Bagehot's idea of excitement, forget it.
The husband, Nick, is an archaeologist whose idea of excitement is discovering an "ancient rubbish pit".
But what unites these disparate projects is essentially a strong fascination with the temporary, with the here-today-and-gone-tomorrow, the idea of excitement, urgency and a dynamic interaction with urban (and it is usually urban) spaces.
We know math isn't everybody's idea of excitement, but that isn't what we're looking for in a stock.
Nightlife is a form of transcendence, in a very real sense, from the humdrum of the everyday, and, as Haslam discovers in the book, this idea of the excitement of the night in both literal and more metaphysical terms as a fundamental necessity, isn't something that just arrived on our shores in the Northern Soul days.
"Science fiction is the history of ideas, the excitement of ideas, the magic becoming reality.
The Zzzphone mix-and-match idea has generated a lot of excitement online, but so far the actual phones have been slow to arrive on American shores.
After taking off, I took a scenic route back to the city, and then came an idea for one final bit of excitement.
They are a part of some new scene, which doesn't have a word yet, and which isn't necessarily as simply magical, revealing and ravishing as old time pop, and which fabricates the idea of magic, fun and excitement in ways that will seem very contrived, perfunctory and formulaic to older pop fans.
Ever since the Turnbull government launched the so-called "ideas boom", a considerable amount of excitement has been generated about the future direction of Australia's economy.
But there's a sense of excitement about this idea that is giving it considerable momentum in the community.
