In Britain in that early postwar era there was a sudden thrilling influx of sophisticated, streamlined consumer goods from the US.
When I was small, I would hold the end of the wand near something soft, like a couch pillow, and wait for the sudden thrilling thump of fabric and the whine of the motor, and I was fascinated by the melon-sized orb of condensed house dust that grew in the machine's interior — warm and squeezable through the air-permeable paper.
Many, perhaps most, people have experienced a sudden rush of emotion on hearing a particular piece of music; a thrill or chill, a sense of excitement or exhilaration, a feeling of being swept away by it.
Such are the byways of life: unexpected letdowns, substitute thrills, sudden discoveries.
Dramatic implies sudden reversals and thrilling plays and ambitions brought off or thwarted, players seeming to play above their capacities, or with a favored grace, and this hasn't been a series for grand gestures, except that Martin Brodeur has made several astonishing saves.
As "the slowing" begins, Julia says she remembers feeling "not fear but a thrill" — "a sudden sparkle amid the ordinary, the shimmer of the unexpected thing".
This kind of thing happens all the time now, but three or four years ago it still seemed momentous and thrilling: a sudden argument at a dinner party (something about Tom Selleck and Burt Reynolds and iconic mustaches of the '70s) was quickly put to rest when half the people present picked up their phones and started to Google.
A thrilling sudden-death, overtime gold-medal game at the 2010 Winter Olympics between Canada and the United States briefly brought the game back to the fore, and strong, skilled teams in traditional American hockey markets like Boston, Chicago, and New York have helped to prevent it from losing too much of that momentum.
Their sudden turnaround isn't just thrilling.
