exultance

Example Sentences

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Though Degas demonstrates ballet’s beauty here, he traces no exultance in her; and meanwhile, he allows us to feel kinesthetically just how each muscle is operating.

From New York Times • Dec. 25, 2014

And Mr. Howard’s voice rose to match the music’s crests, from a quiet, elfin murmur to a more insistent, rasp-edged tenor — and at times into a pealing falsetto that merged desperation and exultance.

From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2012

His eyes shone like polished steel, and there was a glow in his haggard face that told of an exultance beyond his power of repression.

From Out of the Primitive by Bennet, Robert Ames

Hardly had I reached it before Rador came hurrying up, in his manner a curious exultance mingled with what in anyone else I would have called a decided nervousness.

From The Moon Pool by Merritt, Abraham

Of endurance he knew nothing and in his keen and cynical exultance his devil made a fool of him.

From The Shuttle by Burnett, Frances Hodgson