There wasn't much ecstatic prancing going on any more.
Re "The Philharmonic Agrees to Move to Carnegie Hall" (front page, June 2): We, the musicians of the New York Philharmonic, want it to be known that we are ecstatic about going "home" to the greatest hall in the world.
Ecstatic, he went home and told his wife; they ordered a new car, booked an Easter holiday in the Caribbean and toasted the bank's generosity.
The 29-year-old O'Donnell, who played for six seasons in Los Angeles before he was selected by Minnesota in the expansion draft last summer, said he was ecstatic to go from an expansion team to a Stanley Cup contender.
St. Francis of Assisi exemplified this dichotomy in his prayer: "Who are you, O God of sweetness, and who am I, worm of the earth and your lowly servant?" Ecstatic prayer goes beyond the frame of ordinary prayer and becomes an experience in which words fail.
It was two summers ago, and I was ecstatic to go to my very first all-lesbian shindig.
"I'm ecstatic; it's going to be surreal," Davis said.
If you live in New York or Los Angeles and haven't yet experienced "THE HURT LOCKER," which opened on June 26 to ecstatic reviews, get going.
The actress and comedian is ecstatic to be going back to television, taking a role in executive producer Jennifer Lopez's ABC Family hit "The Fosters" beginning in January.
Our cinematic ecstatics often go too far; they always have (but in earlier eras, tyrannical studios and Cerberus-like publicists rode herd on journalists and officials to tone down unwanted exposure), and they have become transcendent, holy, feared survivors.
