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 could hardly exaggerate the peril he had 72 incurred, and the touch of exultance with which he described his defeat of the murderer was quite pardonable in a tenderfoot.

From Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation by Brehm, George

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

From The Wishing-Ring Man by Widdemer, Margaret

But she had no answer for the girl's singular, almost wild exultance.

From The Call of the Canyon by Grey, Zane