What are its greatest assets as a popular amusement: its famous champions and the thrill they generate, or its mystique, which, to an extent not exceeded by any American sport, lies in history and tradition, the sense that each year's Triple Crown represents the enactment of a spring rite?
For anyone who remembers the thrill and hope generated by the 2000 presidential election in Mexico — in which 71 years of one-party rule were finally broken — today's midterm vote may be remembered, if it is remembered at all, as the most depressing in recent history.
After a couple of creaky openers, however, they hit their stride, and the thrills they once generated seem to have survived the difficult journey in the time machine.
He said he was thrilled the park had generated so much business and publicity for the seaside town but admitted he was quite relieved it was coming to an end.
Wall Street generates thrills Maserati thrills, cocaine thrills, private-plane thrills, six-figure-vacation thrills, the thrill of seeing your name engraved in a university building or a hospital waiting room.
The more puerile efforts of this school, which was called "body art" ("performance art" or "time-based art" are now the preferred terms), generated a prurient thrill, or just revulsion.
The libertarian imagination, amply furnished with metaphors of invisible hands and spontaneously generated order, is thrilled by such technological empowerment.
The night before, the legitimately thrilling overtime win over the Wizards generated a.95 rating.
In an interview with CBS News, Gibbs said he was thrilled by the response his video has generated.
This was not glee generated by the doom of an implacable enemy, but thrill germinated by the real possibilities that the future held for freedom.
