Sentence examples for queasy thrill from inspiring English sources

Viewers have shown an insatiable appetite for the queasy thrill that comes from watching an ordinary person suffer searing public embarrassment in exchange for 15 minutes of fame.

The queasy thrill of prewar espionage doesn't come from the prospect of war, or even the spying; it comes from the moral compromises forced by fear and accommodation.

If Mayweather were a different kind of boxer, he might be counted on to deliver a queasy thrill: destroying an inexperienced opponent the way Mike Tyson, once upon a time, charged through dozens of lesser fighters.

I felt the queasy thrill you might get from reconnecting with an old lover.

Although reactions focused mostly on the queasy thrill of watching a candidate's numbers grow or shrink in real time, the project also went to painful lengths to catalog the often-unspoken caveats that encumber every horse-race survey.

It delivers queasy thrills like clockwork and contains several neat twists in the relationship among the two male kidnappers and their female victim.

It's clear from the start that Owen is doomed, but the queasy thrills of the novel derive from watching the scheme — and the marriage — unravel.

The drama has a lurid fascination, and there is a queasy, guilty thrill in watching it unfold.

Clearly, Beller needs for Alex to grow up so their respective voices can merge, and his footing grows more steady as Alex undergoes the death of his father and then becomes a teenager, attending bar mitzvahs and watching Ugly George on TV, praying that the notorious cameraman/stalker will persuade some woman on the street to pull up her shirt and provide a queasy-making thrill.

I was thrilled and queasy with excitement.

"For me personally it's been 20-odd years since I was onstage," he says, looking both thrilled and a little queasy.