sense of novelty

There was a sense of novelty in the situation which had its attractions.

For all the sense of novelty, the idea that the two sides are talking comes as no shock, certainly not in Israel.

But if it has lost its sense of novelty and excitement, is it really alive?

And there was a sense of novelty too, of things that had only just begun but were now opening up to her.

The intoxicating sense of novelty had given place to a more business-like mood.

And the transposition does not diminish them greatly, although a sense of novelty is missing, to say the very least.

Financial restrictions and a lack of creativity diminished the sense of novelty.

Any event from Hawaii is accompanied with an inherent sense of novelty and exoticism.

My problem was that I had grown up with all this, so it didn't fill me with quite the same sense of novelty and wonder.

There is a sense of novelty and joy, without the encumbrance of experience or expectation.

Dyson has restored a sense of novelty to the oldest electronic appliance in the home.

Nothing would make Mr. Ellis happier than for the sense of novelty to wear off.

The Seine, if he is from these islands, may not disappoint him or astonish him with a sense of novelty and of ignorance.

GamePro agreed, stating that "Where the original had a sense of novelty and charm, the sequel feels a little dated and tired."

In his PBS series, "Free to Choose," over 25 years ago, he popularized his ideas with a child's sense of novelty.

The place, of course, was just as it had always been, and yet, as it ever did, struck me with a fresh sense of novelty and amazement.

And most aggressively market the product, tinkering with the frequency of drawings and the mechanics of the game to maintain a sense of novelty and excitement.

Winters felt a curious sense of novelty and youth as he swung his spaceship down and cruised over the face of the green and silver world below.

Though I do retain all of the memories of my previous incarnations--up until two hundred and ten hours ago--there is still a sense of novelty to my existence.

This sense of novelty, of the fateful moment with all kinds of uncertain implications, accounts more for the unease, I think, than the behavior of Germany from Bismarck to 1945.

There is hardly a page of his work where we do not come across words and expressions which strike us with a pleasant sense of novelty, and yet express the meaning with admirable conciseness.

And while a girl crush is, by its informal definition, not sexual in nature, the feelings that it triggers - excitement, nervousness, a sense of novelty - are very much like those that accompany a new romance.

When Charles II became king in 1660, the sense of novelty in literature was tempered by a sense of suddenly participating in European literature in a way that England had not before.

Competition as 'the New Reality' "We are now competing for the private charity dollar without the sense of urgency, without the sense of novelty, that we had for some time," Mr. Walker said.

Deus Nova - a god (male to its form but in a poetical value I simply wish to underline the paternal role in the act of creating the world) and the sense of novelty and beginning - the new.