Chiefly the glee on seeing boys' chemistry sets from the 1950s, and contrasting their recipients' assumed delight on suddenly being gifted the means to set most of a small suburban area ablaze, with the pursed lips of today's Which?
Just days after Mary Gonzalez came out as the United States' first openly pansexual politician (and in Texas, no less!), we were suddenly being gifted with another chance to challenge how we think about sex, love, relationships, and what it means to be queer in this country.
With his first book nominated for a Pulitzer – and lauded by Stanley Kunitz, Denise Levertov, Theodore Roethke, Muriel Rukeyser, Stephen Spender and other luminaries of the time – he was suddenly the most gifted new voice in American poetry, even photographed for Glamour and Vogue.
Suddenly, Germain discovers a gifted pupil, the 16-year-old Claude (the handsome newcomer Ernst Umhauer), who turns in an essay on "What I did last week".
The chin dropped – but, as suddenly as he had gifted the Spaniard the first set, Murray let him back into the match with a couple of atrocious shots as he was broken in the sixth game.
There are suddenly disbelieving clergy as well as gifted but burned out clergy leaving the Church.
On 3, Dustin Johnson misses a simple birdie chance, but he's still gifted the hole as the suddenly bumbling Kaymer - who has been so staunch during this Ryder Cup so far - nervously misses a tiddler.
When an actor as extraordinarily gifted as Philip Seymour Hoffman dies as suddenly, as tragically as he did, the mind goes into a kind of shock.
