exultance

Example Sentences

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Though Degas demonstrates ballet’s beauty here, he traces no exultance in her; and meanwhile, he allows us to feel kinesthetically just how each muscle is operating.

From New York Times • Dec. 25, 2014

And Mr. Howard’s voice rose to match the music’s crests, from a quiet, elfin murmur to a more insistent, rasp-edged tenor — and at times into a pealing falsetto that merged desperation and exultance.

From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2012

She shivered with exultance and blamed it on the chill.

From What Will People Say? A novel by Hughes, Rupert

And now, in open water, Tedge plunged on in fierce exultance.

From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 by Marshall, Edison

Of endurance he knew nothing and in his keen and cynical exultance his devil made a fool of him.

From The Shuttle by Burnett, Frances Hodgson