Those five minutes of the most remarkable thrills, the stunts, and the flames and the flying bodies, I know how to find them but it's keeping hold of them that's the problem, as the game works hard to make a bombastic delight into a directionless mess.
Still, the advances made since the days of Randy Lloyd's "homophile marriage" provocation have been remarkable, even thrilling.
"Whip-smart, edge-of-your-seat," wrote the New York Post's critic; "surprising, remarkable, utterly thrilling," thought the New York Observer's.
I thought of how such moments in reading are remarkable, reassuring and thrilling in equal measure, and then I thought of the way music gives us these moments, too – how in a lyric, or a chord change, a note or a drumbeat, that same hand seems to come out and take our own.
This results in some remarkable visuals, including a thrilling opening title sequence, where the viewer is whisked along the veritable torrent of diverse visual information.
Many of the acts are graceful (like Chiara Anastasini and her hoops, and the Energy Trio, with its remarkable balancing), rather than thrilling, but the level of artistry is impressive, and the performers are confident and without pretense.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin became music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra in 2012, and it's proving a remarkable partnership if this thrilling concert – the orchestra's first in London since his appointment – is anything to go by.
"The recognition by the Nobel committee is a remarkable achievement". "We're thrilled to see years of curiosity and persistence pay off for Tom with this terrific recognition," said Erin O'Shea, PhD, vice president and chief scientific officer at HHMI. "You know, what culminates in a Nobel Prize usually begins 20 or 30 years earlier, with a good idea and the guts to pursue it.
It's a thrilling document, remarkable for the depiction of raving at peak cultural saturation in all its sweaty, blissed-out glory.
But watching him out there, he seems quietly thrilled with his remarkable gifts.
He exhausted himself with the sheer expenditure of energy, and then recharged his depleted resources with the thrill of his most remarkable passion: aviation.
