ecstasy

They agreed that being exactly right all of the time wasn’t worth the misery of waiting so long to witness a goal—and then being robbed of that moment of ecstasy when it gets overturned.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

And the closing “Otherside” begins as a stately piano ballad and grows bar by bar until Ms. Orton reaches a state of ecstasy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

In Venezuela composer Antonio Estévez’s “Cantata Criolla,” a song contest between a macho Venezuelan troubadour and the devil leads to the spiritual ecstasy of exorcism.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

From ecstasy to agony in under 20 minutes.

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026

The reporter described Maggie and Kate Fox embracing “upon each other’s necks in an ecstasy of affection and delight at being together once again.”

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

The ecstasies of attraction are sublimated into their long conversations about Boethius and Hildegard von Bingen, or about the suddenly debatable issues of contraception and clerical celibacy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

Gary Lineker, who will leave the BBC after hosting his final Match of the Day on Sunday, was the steady hand who guided millions of fans through football's agonies and ecstasies.

From BBC ● May 19, 2025

Alternating between sass and sincerity, Baumane methodically identifies the origins of these myths and then traces how they pinball Zelma through a series of agonies and ecstasies.

From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2023

And Macelaru delivered the triumphant climb of the finale with finely managed intensity, never letting its ecstasies get out from under the players.

From Washington Post ● May 13, 2022

They were charter members of the “band of brothers” who had shared the agonies and ecstasies of 1776 as colleagues.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis