If you're lucky, you might happen upon a thrilling gift for someone on your list.
"The trio embarks upon a thrilling journey that ultimately leads them to their next potential master, Scarlet Overkill, the world's first ever female super-villain," it reads.
By day, there was a "Wild Kingdom -like thrill upon discovering their scat, finding their paw prints or stepping over their squirming signatures on the trail.
Then there's the whole mashup genre, based almost entirely upon the cheap thrill factor delivered by a straight-bat movie title with entirely incongruous constituent parts.
They were married in 2012 and, while most people who take their partner's surname experience a thrill upon receiving a new credit card or driving licence, I wonder what it was like for Taylor-Johnson.
He's not actually the tallest male dancer onstage, but he seems it when partnering Elena Petrachenko, and his extraordinary physique — broad shoulders above a slender waist, but both as firm as any acrobat's — confers an unusual thrill upon the work's many lifts.
Having ousted totemic Harlem political icon Adam Clayton Powell Jr. in the previous year's Democratic primary, the freshman Rangel expressed his thrill upon Nixon's extension of congratulations for "concentrating most of his attention on the drug problem," as the New York Times reported at the time.
He started Cool Site in 1994, after discovering the thrill of happening upon an especially interesting Web site and telling his friends what he had found.
I will never forget the thrill I felt upon coming to the conclusion of her piece "Fascinating Fascism," when it first appeared in The New York Review of Books in 1975.
Even when nothing very important is at stake, Wood summons images of remarkable force, as in this description of the slovenly Thomas's financial habits: "So I leave bills unopened, and it gives me a small thrill to come upon them on the kitchen table, and to know that although inside the envelopes lie all these hysterical flashing demands, from the outside they are as calm as chess players".
