ecstasy
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Dance movies marvelously translate primal emotions into motion, the human body becoming a supple instrument deftly communicating the pain, ecstasy and confusion of being alive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
A scholar of jazz and blues, he explains how sorrow and ecstasy, trauma and resilience, all of life’s reverberations are felt in every note he plays.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
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
Write some of this century’s most devastating songs about the ecstasy of getting together.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
He was cold, in agony, and on the point of death when his sacrifice bore dark fruit: in the ecstasy of his agony he looked down, and the runes were revealed to him.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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
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
Vocabulary lists containing ecstasy
"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant
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Norse Mythology
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