Word: thrill
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...smells and emotions, stick with us for life, as a comfort or reproach. They have an indelible immediacy: the room you were in the first time you heard That Song, a school outing that revealed fresh pleasures, the weight of an early crush on some boy or girl, the thrill or shiver at a favorite movie - all these are embedded in muscle memory...
...young mathematics student was drawn far more to Boston’s many social attractions than to academic pursuits. “I figured that there were some 25 women’s schools within radius of Cambridge,” he says, “and I was thrilled to be here.” Some of the thrill wore off when Nesson applied for early admittance to Harvard Law prior to his senior year at the College. He was rejected—a disappointment punctuated when he went to confront longtime Dean of Admissions Louis Toepfer over...
...excitement over the bank tests was an important replacement for the thrill of Bernie Madoff's weird and exotic life. He was remarkably clever and had great skill in robbing otherwise intelligent people blind. A careful analysis of Madoff's actions has not uncovered much that was not clear in the first few weeks of the investigation other than the fact that the people who gave him money were not intelligent at all. Madoff was such an improbable monster that the public followed the story with untiring fascination week-after-week. Once Madoff went to prison, the magic wore...
...just want to have regular sex, the kind where the guy fucks me and I have an orgasm that sends my head knocking against something from the flailing thrill. But I keep finding all these boys who need it in a special way. And now I figure I’ve tried the weirdest most exciting stuff and found it boring, and that’s never going to change...
...Still, Chirac must secretly be enjoying the moment. After his own 12 year presidency limped to an end with approval ratings at times dipping below the 20% mark, Chirac was left to watch his one-time protégé-turned-rival take over the Elysée and thrill a mesmerized French public. Where Chirac's leadership was criticized as plodding, unfocused, and ready to sacrifice reform at the first sign of opposition, Sarkozy's has been cheered as relentless, results-driven, and full of the promise of long overdue change...