Sentence examples for terrible excitement from inspiring English sources

A terrible excitement burned in me.

There is a terrible excitement that fills the New Englander at the idea of death, even one's own — discussing my will, I always feel a tingle of excitement.

Saadi himself ends up as the slave-owner, on account of his comparatively pale skin ("He can be the white man," say his friends), but this is no bad thing, given that the slave auction is their favourite bit, the climax of the game that fills them "with a terrible, inexpressible excitement".

Her terrible bedside manner and excitement over other people's trauma, if it means she gets to operate on them, is both darkly funny and an accurate portrayal of what it's like to be a woman who cares more about her career than what people think of her.

And yet there is the terrible realization that all this excitement and drama could come crashing down around us in less than two weeks if the sober and reasonable Mitt Romney ends the year of Republican nonsense by winning Iowa and New Hampshire and securing the nomination before things even really get started.

Maybe there's been a terrible mistake, she would think, overcome by excitement.

All her excitement had seeped away, leaving behind a terrible sadness, an emptiness that felt violent, as if she'd been gouged.

You mix excitement with a fucking fifth of alcohol, man, something terrible is bound to happen".

There are moments when the sadness and excitement of the place get mixed together: "New York's terrible when somebody laughs on the street very late at night.

It is a terrible thing to say, but I remember having the same warped sense of excitement when my parents told us about their arrangement, should anything happen.

Indeed, it is a sign of the terrible times for children in Darfur that a vaccination campaign brings so much excitement.