"So we are disappointed but at the same time thrilled for him because he deserves it.
He had found his niche: the sound of 700 people turning over a piece of paper at the same time thrilled him.
A young marine told me that he was in Iraq for the first time, thrilled to be here and eager to see action.
In evaluating the Jets' draft Saturday night, Tannenbaum sounded much like every other general manager at this time — thrilled with his haul, delighted to see the pieces fit and surprised that a few, like safety Antonio Allen from South Carolina, taken in the seventh round, were still available.
And because of this, we might not have to spend as much time thrill-seeking to feel content.
You have the long-term Bennite hard left, people who have been around for a very long time, thrilled that their moment has come again after 20 years in no mans land.
Thirty-two plarerseededseeded instead of 16, but it's still a first-time thrill and a clear sign of progress, and Taylor Dent and Robby Ginepri have progressed plenty in the last few months.
Few books have given me this sort of real-time thrill, the kind that trailed me out of the theater after seeing the movie about a girl in the pocket of that freakiest of changes, from kid to adolescent, who is suddenly able to light an entire gymnasium full of promgoers on fire with her mind while wearing a pink gown covered in pig's blood.
Some first-time thrill-seekers expect non-stop rapids, but of course they occur only at intervals, with short, fast rapids ending in stretches of flat water.
It's a tremendously messy process, at times thrilling and deeply useful, and at times damaging in ways that can't be anticipated.
More important, "You Don't Know Jack" is a compelling, at times thrilling, tale that can absorb even those with little interest or feeling for the subject.
