excitement
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What’s inevitably lost is the excitement of watching a single performer act the chameleon, flipping between characters as if changing psychic TV channels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
I can hardly remember if I joined the chorus, or if the excitement was so heavy that I just felt like an equal part of it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Yet the cost of that excitement can upend a well-structured financial plan, Orr says.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
“People expect excitement … What actually shows up is messier.”
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
I could feel the excitement as it burned its way through me.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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In the memoir, Ms. Dunham traces the struggles of her adult life—fame, illness, addiction—with touching emphasis on the early tremulous excitements of becoming well-known: the affirmation, the freebies, the invitations to glittering events.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
A gray whisper of a man, he eschewed the excitements of travel in favor of a tea-filled life in his house on Utopia Parkway in Queens.
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2024
We texted, sent each other selfies, and went back and forth about the banal particulars and little excitements of our days.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2019
Not every testimony in “Secondhand Time” is made of fact; a fair number may have been warped by excitements and passions, and the passing of time.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 2016
He sat propped against a tree, watching the red sentries passing to and fro in the firelight, hearing their quiet passwords and thinking about the excitements of the day.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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