Sentence examples for peculiar thrill from inspiring English sources

But he has spoken of the peculiar thrill of stirring up a mob in German.

Piety and sadism are more closely related than you might think, and it gave me a peculiar thrill to rip out the innards.

Finding that a childhood favorite wasn't at all what I remembered carried with it a peculiar thrill, a kind of scientific proof that I'd grown up and changed.

The scary, and memorable, thing about "Get Carter," after all, was the way the film's elegantly lucid style seemed to match the predatory implacability of its avenger hero: Mr. Hodges showed us the world through the hooded, reptilian eyes of Michael Caine's Carter, and though it wasn't a pretty sight, there was a peculiar thrill in sharing, for a couple of hours, that hard, icy vision.

It is a peculiar thrill to walk the same hills they did and look at the same views.

The show itself taps into the peculiar thrill evoked by Broadway musicals, marching bands, and perhaps even North Korean martial exercises--that feeling of watching the well-synced motion of human beings and music.

And of course transformation into something that is not quite human (like the "were-swan" here) or even fully inhuman (like the automaton in "Coppelia") is both inherently scary and, in this peculiar art, weirdly thrilling.

The local media was thrilled, in that peculiar, angry, excited way columnists get when an ambiguous issue suddenly clarifies into a moral fable – for example, here is Pete Abraham, then-Yankees beatwriter for The Journal News, propping up Ron Villone of all people as the Gallant to Rodriguez's free agent Goofus.

One thing — and it seems peculiar to the Mormons — was the thrill of believing in a wholly American revelation.

Even the murder investigation is fun, in its own peculiar way; but for death-­defying thrills, nothing quite compares to the Staccati swinging into Beethoven's Quartet in C sharp minor.

That a story told by a five-year-old manages to captivate and to surprise — to thrill, in fact, with its peculiar and distinct humanity — is a fine and major achievement.