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When Curran is indeed killed, the opportunity to investigate an “actual murder” so excites Joyce that she runs to wake her new friends for an “emergency meeting” — “Isn’t it wonderful?” she exults.

He exulted in the fact that “we train our boys to be killing machines.”

“Another superstar from Japan!” exulted Joe Davis, the voice of the Dodgers.

“This is super cool,” exulted Dean, an auto mechanic who does the repair work at the family-run garage.

If the jury can’t reach a decision, Trump will exult that even a jury of Manhattanites in one of the most liberal jurisdictions in the nation failed to find him culpable — another moral victory declaration.