Sentence examples for ecstatic study from inspiring English sources

Terence Davies' new film, his first for eight years, is a heartfelt and even ecstatic study of Liverpool, the home town of his 1950s boyhood.

Later, in I. M. Lewis' book Ecstatic Religion: A Study of Shamanism and Spirit Possession, we're given such messages as women and homosexual men are more likely to become possessed because they are weaker; thus, no credible report of shamanhood.

Tomos Povey, 19, a history and politics student at Aberystwyth University, said he was initially "ecstatic" to be studying the Welsh Bacc.

In a recent paper, however, studying ecstatic meditation using functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and electroencephalographic techniques, it was observed that not only superficial cortical brain areas are involved in the effects, but that activation of the reward-system (the dopaminergic fibers contacting the accumbens nucleus) also occurs [ 294].

Many were ecstatic at news that the second study was being published.

Many of the non-Danish painters in the show, including Friedrich, studied in Denmark, where Romanticism took an ecstatic, precisionist, light-intoxicated turn.

But far from expressing the spiritual dimension of ecstatic vision, as the master did, these images are studies in self-absorption and momentary emotional release.

Deborah Jowitt, the dance critic and historian who performed and studied at the Y, introduced Humphrey's "Two Ecstatic Themes" from 1931, danced by Lauren Naslund.

Plenty of infertility patients who conceive twins are ecstatic from the start about getting a two-for-one deal; some studies indicate that the majority of I.V.F.

He would beconcentrating on his studies rather than giving a blow-by-blow account of the ecstatic moment the All Black World Cup-winner handed over his medal.

Ms. Evers-Williams, who studied classical piano at Alcorn State University in Mississippi before dropping out to marry Evers, is ecstatic at the opportunity.