Sentence examples for thrilling cities from inspiring English sources

"Even if people can't put up with James Bond and those fancy heroines of yours, they seem to like the exotic backgrounds," Fleming recalled his editor telling him, in the introduction to Thrilling Cities – the book that came out of those travels.

Fleming's first trip to Japan was as part of the Thrilling Cities trip undertaken for The Sunday Times in 1959, although his visit only lasted for three days.

Overall Tracy considered that Thrilling Cities was "a lively, enjoyable book, written from an unusual point of view and well illustrated".

The story was first published in the New York Herald Tribune in October 1963 as "Agent 007 in New York", but was subsequently renamed as "007 in New York" for the 1964 US editions of Thrilling Cities.

In November 1959 Fleming left to travel around the world on behalf of The Sunday Times, material for which Fleming also used for his non-fiction travel book, Thrilling Cities.

Fleming's second non-fiction book was published in November 1963: Thrilling Cities, a reprint of a series of Sunday Times articles based on Fleming's impressions of a number of world cities in trips taken during 1959 and 1960.

Nigeria is home to Lagos, a reeling, clogged metropolis that is yet Africa's most thrilling city.

Brunch is just a metaphor for the way New York has become sanitised, an antiseptic shadow of the sleazy, thrilling city it once was, a place whose seedy underbelly gave birth to creativity, to the Velvet Underground and to punk rock.

As I think of early days, an inseparable part of them appears: the thrilling city — New York was that — and a kind of Athenian brilliance over everything, which might well have been the light coming through the tall glass archways of Lincoln Center, where, in the fall, the Film Festival was held.

There was an Osprey nest comically assembled high atop a telephone pole where no predators could reach it and, thrill-city, that aforementioned, velvet-antlered moose.

Yet somehow, the New York owners -- made even more brilliant by oodles of New York cable loot -- have put together two compelling teams that thrilled the city from March through October, for a memorable week that ended with a lusty cheer of "Yankee Baseball!