She would not seek thrills and risk.
Sometimes it's the typical teenage thrill of risk taking that manifests itself in running away.
Like his friend Graham Greene, he could never quite wean himself from the thrill of risk.
But like the gunslingers of the old West, to whom his thrilling, high-risk playing style is so often compared, he couldn't let go.
While Spurrier might seem a revolutionary figure, he is a throwback to the heyday of another N.F.L. maverick, Al Davis, who also preferred long passes and thrilled at risk with the Oakland Raiders.
Shouldn't a company that describes itself in such grandiose terms offer work that is grand, thrilling and risk-taking, rather than a complacent stroll through the back catalogue?
With his friend Graham Greene, he could never wean himself from the thrill of risk, and like Macbeth became "in blood stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er".
In addition to capturing a pivotal moment in the mass-marketing of American vernacular food, it evokes a dreamlike time, before the arrival of the Interstate System and its proliferation of fast-food restaurants and chain hotels, when traveling the American highway was a thrilling, high-risk proposition, with marvelous discoveries and ghastly disappointments waiting at every turn.
His exuberantly monstrous turn in "Training Day" burned with the thrill of risk and liberation: throwing himself headlong into racial demonology, Mr. Washington sacrificed none of the dignity or intelligence that have been his trademarks, but rather used them to terrifying effect.
He captured the visceral thrill (and risk!) of mastering a finely tuned performance machine in unpredictable conditions.
