To watch Robben in the marauding mood he was in against Benfica on Tuesday, when he notched two more glorious, hilarious iterations of that famous Robben Goal, was to witness one of the sport's more thrilling exercises in fate and futility.
Would 19th-century orientalism have taken the form it did without his thrilling early exercises showing the hunting of crocodiles, hippopotamuses and big cats?
It's such a thrill to exercise civil liberties like that.
Maybe you like it – maybe going to the gym is keeping you out of trouble; maybe the thrill of exercise is enough for you.
The singular thrill of exercising a horse one morning at Keeneland shaped her future.
However, their parents and grandparents will probably find The Company You Keep a thrilling and relevant exercise in exploring the personal repercussions of political dissent.
Once they are older, say seven, they can thrill to the exercise and the friendship of the slopes.
Hardcore X-Files aficionados are going to be better judges of whether it makes any kind of sense or not, and may be more thrilled about the entire exercise.
Some pop genres have traditionally held a licence to thrill, to divert and to exercise the mind.
