And despite their grim subject matter, you can tell they're rhyming for the pure thrill of it.

In an age of fake snow and slopes built on garbage dumps, skiing a volcano such as Bachelor can be a pure outdoor thrill.

Network guardians of justice seem so personally conflicted, so consumed by their own subtext, that the pure thrill of vanquishing villains has nearly disappeared.

Its malevolent magnetism would surely appeal to a deranged man who, as was frequently true in these cases, got his purest thrill not from molesting the innocent but from torturing and then brutally murdering them.

Then there was the pure thrill of having been pushed to the edge of danger and having pulled myself back to safety.

The star quality of Jonas Kaufmann and Bryn Terfel in Tosca at Covent Garden, delivering the pure visceral thrill of Italian opera at its best.

The mob seeks the pure thrill of killing.

There is the long thundery approach, full of mounting excitement, the moment of breathless terror at takeoff, then the rising arc of flight, the pure, brief, exhilarating thrill of being aloft.

If you're after the pure thrill of it, get yourself a round-the-world ticket instead, it would be much cheaper!

He does it for the pure thrill of it, he says, but also because a few punishing rounds in the ring make him a tougher manager and fiercer competitor in a survival-of-the-fittest business.