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

Or the joy of death that gladdens In exultance of decay?

From One Day & Another A Lyrical Eclogue by Cawein, Julius Madison

Her expression was a most imprudent betrayal; it clearly told, by its acerbity and exultance, that she held the present occasion to be one of prodigious and triumphant import.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar

"Oh, I'm people, at last!" she said with a soft exultance.

From The Wishing-Ring Man by Widdemer, Margaret