They all point me towards the perilous turbulences and chancy exhilarations that pass through me in dreams.
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Things are trending in a certain direction, and our media reflecting those concerns and exhilarations seems appropriate.
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The Expressionists adopted the look of his style, which serviced their drive to counter French formalism by stressing the psychic toll and the compensatory exhilarations of the modernizing world.
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There's the suggestion of a classic espionage thriller in this angle of the plot, but Mr. Ondaatje is after something else — a narrative reflection, perhaps, on the alternate exhilarations and terrors of life in wartime.
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"Star Wars" taps the pulp fantasies buried in our memories, and because it's done so brilliantly, it reactivates old thrills, fears, and exhilarations we thought we'd abandoned when we read our last copy of Amazing Stories.
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" According to Netflix's description, the series follows nice guy Gus (Paul Rust) and wild-child Mickey (Gillian Jacobs) "as they navigate the exhilarations and humiliations of intimacy, commitment, love and other things they were hoping to avoid.
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On the publication by Portobello of an English translation by Philip Boem in 2016, the book was reviewed by Charlotte Ryland in the Times Literary Supplement. She judged "The force of the author's language and the skill of her translator ensure that the text remains as potent as ever...The result is a powerfully unsettling novel, which renders palpable the cruelty of life under the [Ceauşescu] régime, as well as the brittle exhilarations of its overthrow"Charlotte Ryland, "Against dictation", Times Literary Supplement, 10 June 2016, page 24.
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Shah Ghazi's coronation was most likely done in traditional Bavandid fashion. In accordance with the ancient Iranian style, the coronation lasted seven days, and included the typical banquets, exhilarations, giving of gifts, whilst the renowned statesmen, local rulers, and members of the royal house gathered from all the landscapes. On the eighth day, after the felicitations were complete, Shah Ghazi ascended the throne, fastened the royal waistband, and confirmed the governors in their offices. His antagonistic brother Taj al-Muluk Mardavij had been serving Sanjar at Marv, and as a result had become greatly appreciated by him, even receiving his sister (or daughter) in marriage.
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