Nothing wrong with those words, but not very many thrills among them.
When she ended, with "Love Reign O'er Me," so many people in the audience had seen the video of her Kennedy Center performance that a kind of mild thrill passed among them, like the thrill in a Broadway theatre when the scene from the commercials is enacted.
This verdict finds a not entirely thrilled response among the specialist colleges.
Durham's success this season has been built on the batting of Dale Benkenstein and a gaggle of local players, the sometimes thrilling Ben Stokes among them, and a deep bowling attack led by England's forgotten man, Graham Onions.
Black metal is testing its boundaries thanks to bands like Liturgy, whose album "Aesthethica" (Thrill Jockey) was among the year's best, and the scene is home to an increasing number of small, innovative labels.
Famous among thrill seekers who do cage dives there amid some of the most efficient predators on earth, Guadalupe is also renowned for the clarity and warmth of the waters that surround it.
The prospect induces a jostle of emotions: a rare sensation of hope for Labour people, a creeping dread within Tories and a combination of both thrill and terror among Lib Dems.
FiringSquad described it as a "total thrill" to be among 20 fighters flying in between opposing capital ships with beams, missiles, and flak all around, while warnings are going off as they try to seek out and destroy their opposite numbers, a view which GameSpot agreed with.
Such findings, even if they are true, may thrill the installation artists among us, but so what?
