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

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

"He loves me still!" she whispered, and pressed her breast with clenching hands, and laughed in wild exultance, and paced her room like a caged lioness.

From The Call of the Canyon by Grey, Zane

With a cry, half of trepidation, half of exultance, Phillips crushed his cap upon his head.

From The Winds of Chance by Beach, Rex Ellingwood