quiet ecstasy

Yet in the going nowhere, you may be propelled by an energy of quiet ecstasy.

That’s because the quiet ecstasy the scenes inspire has little to do with the lives of the show’s characters and everything to do with what outlives them.

Presently, from a distant thicket, a nightingale began to pour forth its full-throated song; and then, as Ribâta in a quiet ecstasy raised his head to listen, the gate opened, and Ramûa, bare-footed, with flowing hair, came into the garden.

He laughed in quiet ecstasy at this newest and most adorable of the moods.

The Philharmonia – in residence this week – could be relied upon to realise the quiet ecstasy of Elgar's string-writing just as well as its joyful brassy surges.