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 D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
For one shuddering second there seemed to be an intangible living quality in that metallic drone, as though some nameless creature sang in horrible exultance.
From The Cavern of the Shining Ones by Hal K. Wells
Forbes felt no longer an exultance at falling in with these people.
From What Will People Say? A novel by Rupert Hughes
