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

"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

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

There was no 309 exultance in his bearing.

From Into the Primitive by Bennett, Robert Ames