ecstatically

Babitz’s life is the source code for her best books, 1974’s “Eve’s Hollywood” and 1977’s “Slow Days, Fast Company”; her stories are ecstatically, deliriously alive, charged with sexual energy and deadly wit.

Both British paddlers celebrated ecstatically after winning medals which are the reward for coming through tough personal journeys.

Molly Sweeney can identify dozens of plants by touch, catch a lie in a familiar voice and dance ecstatically through a crowd without disturbing a hair.

When she sees his ship approaching the shores of Japan, she and her maid ecstatically prepare the home for him.

In the abstract painters Marina Adams and Stanley Whitney’s Bridgehampton, N.Y., home, on the other hand, the rooms are spare, with a limited color palette; a surprise, perhaps, given their own ecstatically colorful works.