A thrilling contrast arises between Escape from Evil's dark subject matter and its cheery use of slick 1980s pop signatures, creating a disorienting effect on songs such as crashing opener Sucker's Shangri-La and the single To Die in LA.
One side effect of living an always-on digital life is the tension, along with the thrill, that can arise from being able to peep into people's worlds at any moment and comparing their lives with yours.
In each case, there arises a disproportionate thrill from the disparity between the effort put into a joke and the space it receives in the script.
(Part of golf's addictiveness, for those who are hooked, arises from the thrill of effecting action at a distance — a form of satisfaction also known to anti-aircraft gunners).
Some of the thrill of living in the city arises from its combination of majesty and vulnerability.
But given the recent Arctic fury, the question arises whether New Yorkers are as thrilled to traverse the East River in a draftier-than-drafty boat.
And yet within the fragile vistas this letter opens up, there arises, I think, a sense of the sublime; there is a kind of thrill in insignificance just as it's thrilling to catch a glimpse of Timothy's mother before she disappears for ever.
