An Internet troll, or simply troll, is someone who tries to harass by posting messages that tend to excite strong emotion in an online community.

With a lover, I grant, she should be so, and her sensibility will naturally lead her to endeavour to excite emotion, not to gratify her vanity, but her heart.

All their thoughts turn on things calculated to excite emotion; and feeling, when they should reason, their conduct is unstable, and their opinions are wavering- not the wavering produced by deliberation or progressive views, but by contradictory emotions.

Avoid poetry, dramatic representations (except comedy), music, serious novels, melancholy sentimental people, and everything likely to excite feeling or emotion not ending in active benevolence.

If at the beginning of the enterprise they had excited such emotion both in the old and new world, with what enthusiasm would they be received on their return!

He strove to shelter her, as a fair exotic is sheltered by the gardener, from every rougher wind, and to surround her with all that could tend to excite pleasurable emotion in her soft and benevolent mind.

But as the production by the Signature Theater Company - which is devoting the year to Ms. Fornes's plays - reminds one, even in a work in progress she can excite serious reflection and emotion.

We must admit that these are areas that, although very important, are just too dull to excite much emotion.