Sentence examples for thrill of receiving from inspiring English sources

How about the thrill of receiving one?

So begins WH Auden's "Night Mail" on the thrill of receiving letters.

Everyone complains about how digital media is intangible and anonymous, so imagine the thrill of receiving a mix comprised of twenty-five floppy disks.

Andrew Marr, Philip Hensher, Diana Athill, and Wendy Cope discuss the dying art of handwriting, the thrill of receiving letters, and the oddity of astronaut pens.

(I doubt if any movie, even Ang Lee's "Sense and Sensibility," from 1995, has wholly caught the tedium of the age not the thrill of receiving a letter but the hours and days of waiting for it, with needlework on your lap, and listening to the rain).

I literally cringed just typing that -- for now I imagine him, and others, dreading seeing me and working up the strength for the treacherous task just for the thrill of receiving a few nods of approval from other men.

My sister and I were thrilled at the prospect of receiving presents – it was the first morning since arriving in London that I can remember waking up excited.

Although most mothers would be thrilled to receive portraits of their children as a holiday gift, few fathers dare to brave the tasks that such a project requires, like styling hair and coordinating clothing.

We need to prevent that, but let's put the "going broke" rhetoric in perspective: A lot of jobless Americans today would be thrilled to receive 78% of the income they had before the Great Recession.

Hillary Clinton, who looks set to become the first female president of the United States next month, said she was "thrilled" to receive the backing of Adele during her concert in the US on Tuesday night.

While many in the entertainment industry talked of their thrill over receiving recognition in the Queen's Birthday Honours list, Armando Iannucci warned it would not prevent him from lampooning the Government.