-- and the language is thrilling yet comforting; "revenge" is only for last season's humiliating defeat.
"The intimacy of the language thrills me.
Here, with The New Yorker's Ben Greenman, Saunders discusses his piece, the difficulties of memoir, and the thrill of language.
But good writing, I think, takes what comes in and sends it out again worded in awareness; or, in the case of poetry, with the added thrill that language can sometimes miraculously provide.
Her observation of the arc of a stint overseas was that the first year of navigating a new city, a new culture, a new language and a new job — is thrilling but challenging.
There will be nudity and adult language, which thrills him.
"I am as thrilled by the English language as I am by a lovely woman or dreams," he writes, "green as dreams and deep as death".
For example, "I am as thrilled by the English language as I am by a lovely woman or dreams, green as dreams and deep as death," the last a near quotation from Rupert Brooke.
The tragic writer seeks by the most plausible language to thrill and charm the audience temporarily; the historian by real facts and real speeches seeks to instruct and convince serious students for all time.
Photographs of the businessman, perhaps by design, tend to show him surrounded by friends, as impressive in quality as in quantity, and plainly thrilled, from their body language, to be in his company: there is a lot of hugging.
