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

First, a sympathetic cleaving to the earth with the foot: then the voluntary rejection, the spurning, the kicking away, the exultance in power and freedom.

From Fantasia of the Unconscious by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

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

With a cry, half of trepidation, half of exultance, Phillips crushed his cap upon his head.

From The Winds of Chance by Beach, Rex Ellingwood