exhilarate

I escaped also into the exhilarating energy, camaraderie, and sense of purpose that went with reporting conflict.

The cruelty is almost always the point; sadopolitics is exhilarating and addictive.

Watching it be squashed into nothing but smoke and steam is an exhilarating thing.

"When something becomes a cultural phenomenon, you can't really predict that. It's very exhilarating," he said.

"Knowing that this one individual dinosaur walked across this surface and left exactly that print is so exhilarating," said Dr Duncan Murdock from Oxford University.