Like Favre, he has shown few signs in recent years that his ability has slipped and, during games, no sign that the thrill is diminished.
It is this rarity, says Young, that makes these brass interpolations particularly effective: "Increase them and the thrill is diminished".
This pathological wish to thrill delivers diminishing returns.
No matter how often he launches his fleet, the thrill never diminishes.
As a solitary moviegoer, I can take a break to go to the bathroom and return to another part of the theatre and watch from a different seat — a thrill that has not diminished.
As a solitary moviegoer, I can take a break to go to the bathroom and return to another part of the theatre and watch from a different seat a thrill that has not diminished.
It's easy to compare the initial thrill of evoking an immediate response to a blog post to the rush of getting high, and the diminishing thrills to the process of becoming inured to a drug's effects.
The thrill is amplified, but also diminished.
That combination had felt thrilling but with the Serb diminished these days the former Arsenal player had become peripheral.
The shame, perhaps even the illicit thrill in visiting a prostitute has diminished.
