exhilarating

On the one hand, it was exhilarating to hear a market insider say what he thought to be true; on the other, if the market became self-aware, its madness couldn’t last long.

In doing so, he also ignited the Arab Spring, an exhilarating but short-lived popular uprising.

It is exhilarating—and gives us a sense of the thrill that Carter must have experienced when he made his discovery in 1922.

“You’re feeling it in the core of your body and it’s exhilarating.”

Pressure and injury and bumps on the way, but these are exhilarating times.