ecstasy
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An ode to the ecstasy of Scrabble: Do you love hearing someone talk about something they’re really passionate about and know very well, in great intimate detail?
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
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
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
Hundreds of fans flooded on to the pitch in ecstasy, zigzagging around, arms aloft.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026
They swayed, for the rivulets of grief or of ecstasy must be rocked.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
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
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
The young men seem to signify possible paths for Lennie: Toby offers solace and a safe link to Bailey; Joe means new ecstasies, a moving on from the torment.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 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
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