Booths voice was low; but his face was ablaze with excitement.

Soon the Hotel was ablaze with excitement.

The state was ablaze with excitement, even though — or perhaps because — most knew that the party’s candidate was bound for defeat.

His eyes were ablaze with excitement, his whole body animated by Europe’s seemingly doomed quest to overturn America’s 10-6 lead.

On the morning of 30 March, as the LHC finally geared up to collide protons with an energy that had not been witnessed in the universe since moments after the big bang, Twitter was ablaze with excitement.