Hugh's highest excitement these days is having lunch with an attractive divorced woman - and going no further.

I'm afraid all this excitement is going to your head, Daddy.

The excitement had gone out of his watery eyes.

During the title sequence, "the excitement has gone all the way up to giddy and never comes down."

He'd been doing radiology now for fourteen years and he was beginning to admit to himself that the excitement had gone out of it.

All this excitement is going to set the new national curriculum back a bit, with 2014 now the target date for its introduction.

The excitement went out of her voice as, with an effort, she forced calmness.

This whole primary is a nothing as far as excitement goes.

That scary excitement had gone out of it, and there was no ambivalence about what she felt now: deep simple relief.

The excitement went out of the street corners because there was nothing left to argue about.