My post-adolescent mind thrilled to the opulent negativity of Adorno's proclamations, some of which I can still recite off the top of my head: "To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric".
When she starts to learn chess, she can barely read, and her growing awareness of the powers of her mind is thrilling to watch.
"Leonardo is endlessly fascinating, so getting this intimate insight into his mind is thrilling".
The mind is thrilled, but what about we who have to house that wild monkey?
It was thrilling, mind-bending stuff, right up to the moment Bocelli finally left his stage so that Leicester's 37th league match – the grandest, most improbable dead rubber of them all – could take place.
I don't know anything about surfing, but I was gripped by the intensity of his language, never mind the thrilling recklessness of his behaviour in the waves.
Again, Crime and Punishment springs to mind: a thrilling page-turner of a crime book (Dostoevsky could teach Patricia Cornwell a thing or two) that becomes a great study of the power of love to redeem.
It's not exactly thrilling footage, mind you, most of it is just Hayward mechanically getting off shots, but its mere existence feels like a revelation.
So several weeks ago, when I picked up a little book called "Buddha's Diet," by Tara Cottrell and Dan Zigmond, curious about its subtitle's promise to help you lose weight "without losing your mind," I was thrilled to see that it takes that idea and runs with it.
The trio didn't write the song with a particular artist in mind, but were thrilled when Urban was interested — and wondered if it might make more of an impact for a male artist singing about women's equality.
