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
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
Irony has little use for ecstasy, but Mac’s specialty is spectacle, and his slow, if showy, disposal of wit brought a new immersive quality to the text and performance.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
Hundreds of fans flooded on to the pitch in ecstasy, zigzagging around, arms aloft.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026
The crowd cried out in an ecstasy of anticipation.
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
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 Match of the Day at the end of this season, BBC News understands, has been the steady hand who guided millions of fans through football's agonies and ecstasies.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2024
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
The pigs were in ecstasies over Napoleon’s cunning.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
Vocabulary lists containing ecstasy
"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant
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