Ecstatic Sentence Examples

We were ecstatic, but increasingly nervous.

Maria's level of happiness rose to ecstatic when he was around.

Young Rostov's ecstatic voice could be heard above the three hundred others.

And she smiled her ecstatic smile.

He remembered everything, and ecstatic pity and love for that man overflowed his happy heart.

He felt ecstatic that she heard in his music what he saw in her art.

The student was ecstatic when he found out he received the highest achievable score on the test.

As for Fred, he was downright ecstatic about a baby in his adopted family—hang the underlying circumstances of the blessed event.

Kiera's heart still did somersaults, and she felt both doubtful Evelyn would follow through and ecstatic at the prospect.

Her little feet in their white satin dancing shoes did their work swiftly, lightly, and independently of herself, while her face beamed with ecstatic happiness.

As the viewer I almost feel as ecstatic as him!

Vive l'Empereur! came those ecstatic cries.

If this story saves one persons life then I will be ecstatic.

We were very surprised, but, of course, ecstatic.

More exalted still, however, is the sudden ecstatic vision, such as was granted, for example, to Paul.

If you love colors and lace accents, the selection at Lingerie Express will make you ecstatic.

The experiences of the religious mystic are paralleled with the ecstatic vision in which the philosophical hermit sees a world of pure intelligences, where birth and decease are unknown.

But in our present state of existence the moments of this ecstatic union must be few and short; " I myself," says Plotinus simply,.

They therefore devoted themselves to examining the nature of the soul, and taught that its freedom consists in communion with God, to be achieved by absorption in a sort of ecstatic trance.

On the other hand, many customers are ecstatic about their purchases, so you'll want to know about that as well.

However, it was tough for an ecstatic Gwen to keep her news under wraps.

Ecstatic, Harry tucks back into the magical world for the remainder of the summer andtrots off to the competition with most of the Weasley family as well as his friend Hermione.

For many people, the idea of fading or ridding themselves of freckles is just a distant dream, while others may be ecstatic to learn that modern technology can change their spots.

I was almost ecstatic to be in hills again.

April 2006 Staff at Folly Farm's zoo are ecstatic this Easter, with the successful breeding of their endangered lemurs.

The soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev was ecstatic and milked all the propaganda he could from the flight.

How is spinning to a roomful of people in an ecstatic trance induced solely by your music like a spiritual experience?

The ' weep ' notes gradually build up into an ecstatic bubbling trill.

From early times, detachment from the world and the practice of austerities have been regarded in India as peculiarly conducive to a spirit of godliness, and ultimately to a state of ecstatic communion with the deity.

The young man rummaging through the boxes is ecstatic.

When I spoke to the now retired agent he was ecstatic.

These men were distributed in various settlements, and their exercises were usually of an ecstatic character.

On the practical side, mysticism maintains the possibility of direct intercourse with this Being of beings - intercourse, not through any external media such as an historical revelation, oracles, answers to prayer, and the like, but by a species of ecstatic transfusion or identification, in which the individual becomes in very truth " partaker of the divine nature."

Thus it encouraged an unrestrained emotionalism, rank superstition, an unhealthy asceticism, and the employment of artificial means to induce the ecstatic state.

Among the North American Indians ecstatic fasting is regularly practised.

Of ordinary immorality it took little notice, and the triumph of its cause in the 16th and 17th centuries, while producing such types of ecstatic piety as St Theresa (qv.), the Sor Mariade Jesus (Maria Agreda), (q.v.) and the Venerable Virgin Luisa de Carvajal, was accompanied by an extraordinary development of moral laxity.

I'm joyous, scared, grateful, ecstatic and half-drunk, all at the same time.

Witherspoon was ecstatic as they left the court­house.

Videte miraculum, for the feast of the Purification, is more than twice as long but no less euphonious, even ecstatic.

Believe me, the only person I know who's not ecstatic about the new Mac game bonanza is my wife.

The animals ' expressions seem almost ecstatic, swept away by the moment until it is too late and the deed is done.

About as far from the ecstatic immanence of realized eschatology as it's possible to get.

We'd find a group of people hopefully experiencing mild contentment, and a group of people experiencing ecstatic euphoria.

They will also understand their ability to whip a congregation into an ecstatic frenzy, to motivate whole communities.

Other features reminiscent of the original barbarous rites in the primitive caverns of the East, no doubt also occupied a place in the cult; bandaging of eyes, binding of hands with the intestines of a fowl, leaping over a ditch filled with water, witnessing a simulated murder, are mentioned by the Pseudo-Augustine; and the manipulation of lights in the crypt, the administration of oaths, and the repetition of the sacred formulae, all contributed toward inducing a state of ecstatic exaltation.

He used prayer and fasting to deliver himself from evil enchantment; and when he saw ecstatic and mystical visions promising him the Lord's help and great usefulness in the Lord's work, he feared that these revelations might be of diabolic origin.

While you and your spouse may be ecstatic over the news that you are pregnant, your older child may not react in quite the same manner.

While families are often ecstatic about the addition of a precious toddler into their midst, the toddler may be far from happy, at least in the beginning.

I'm also working with the producer of How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days on a romantic comedy that I'm so ecstatic about.

Once again we were ecstatic!

Damian himself would be overjoyed, and Jule-- the third adopted brother in their threesome-- ecstatic.

He means this - that he is no mere ecstatic enthusiast or "dervish," whose primary aim is to keep up the warlike spirit of the people, taking for granted that Yahweh is on the people's side, and that he is perfectly free from the taint of selfishness, not having to support himself by his prophesying.

As for Fred, he was downright ecstatic about a baby in his adopted family—hang the underlying circumstances of the blessed event.

Too bad his little boys weren't quite so ecstatic about it.

When she emerged, it was to the sight of a glowing, ecstatic Hannah, who sat on the edge of her bed talking to a sleepy Toby.

Within Talmudic Judaism one can find the ascetic and as well as the ecstatic celebration of life.

At 17 as the company's prima ballerina she won ecstatic reviews for her first Giselle.

In acting you can go from being absolutely ecstatic about getting a role to just being broke.

One student became ecstatic each time he made a match.

Twenty days ago, a stout Kurdish farmer had an ecstatic homecoming, to the fields from which he was evicted in 1986.

Your reward, however, is a feeling of ecstatic jubilation as you survey the magnificent panorama from the top.

She conceived herself to be specially favoured by Christ, who appeared to her in the most extravagant forms. At last, by dint of fasting and lacerating her flesh, she succeeded in reducing herself to such a state of ecstatic suffering that she believed herself to be undergoing in her own person the Passion of the Lord.

The record company, naturally, aren't quite so ecstatic.

Prince Andrew, with a beaming, ecstatic expression of renewed life on his face, paused in front of Pierre and, not noticing his sad look, smiled at him with the egotism of joy.

The two are very close and Blythe is ecstatic over the impending birth of her newest grandchild.

This is reached through contemplation of the primeval Being, the One - in other words, through an ecstatic approach to it.

In the next little work the framework, the whole paraphernalia of the ancient akhyana, is included in the work itself, which is called Udana, or "ecstatic utterances."

For these epitaphs, with others of a humbler kind, were brought before St Elizabeth to be identified in her ecstatic converse with St Verena, her cousin St Ursula, and others.

The Buddha is represented, on various occasions during his long career, to have been so much moved by some event, or speech, or action, that he gave vent, as it were, to his pent-up feelings in a short, ecstatic utterance, couched, for the most part, in one or two lines of poetry.

Neoplatonism seeks this in the ecstatic intuition of the ineffable One.

She wanted to curl up in a ball and sob until she fell asleep, relieved and ecstatic to be with him again.

St Bridget, or Birgitta (1303-1373), an historical figure of extraordinary interest, has left her name attached to several important religious works, in particular to a collection of Uppenbarelser (" Revelations "), in which her visions and ecstatic meditations are recorded, and a version, the first into Swedish, of the five books of Moses.

It blended the Christian element of love with the ecstatic vision of Plotinus, sometimes giving the former a decided predominance.

It was difficult to understand why she had been looking forward to this moment for so long, but wasn't ecstatic now that it had finally arrived.

Especially the wild ecstatic character and the prophecies of the Montanists recall the old type of religion.

In support of image-worship he advanced ' Porphyry tells us that on four occasions during the six years of their intercourse Plotinus attained to this ecstatic union with God.

These ecstatic utterances and deep sayings are attributed to the Buddha himself, and accompanied by the prose framework.

For as the Arahat had conquered the cravings that were supposed to produce the new body, his actions were no longer Karma, but only Kiriya, that led to no rebirth.4 Another point of Buddhist teaching adopted from previous belief was the practice of ecstatic meditation.

There was in the whole family a tendency to ecstatic emotion and enthusiastic piety, and it is worth noting that Cappadocia had already given to the Church men like Firmilian and Gregory Thaumaturgus.