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Off he hurtled in exultation , his team-mates haring after him, some rejoicing with him, others begging him to calm down.
He depicts heroism, exultation and gratitude, but also brutality, venality, injustice, deceit, hypocrisy and crushing disappointment.In the aftermath of totalitarianism and foreign occupation, survivors were ill-equipped to decide what to restore, what to replace and above all how to do it decently.
Others, such as guards at embassies and museums, appear to have received orders to vacate their posts.In a police state such as Egypt, the sudden evaporation of security is a serious matter, particularly when accompanied by a mood of exultation mixed with raging fury.
Surgery dramatised, romanticised, mysticised is the medium through which the tale is borne along, by which the characters find or lose each other, understand themselves, are rendered whole or apart.At the novel's heart beats Mr Verghese's joy of medicine: his exultation in the poetry of its Latin phraseology, the arcane imagery based on resemblances between pathology and food.
Mr Miliband had repeatedly called for action by the UN Security Council on Sri Lanka, saying that hundreds of civilians had died in government artillery fire.Celebrations drowned out muted voices that called for exultation to be tempered with respect for the dead and with concern for more than 250,000 displaced Tamils who had fled the bloodshed with little but the shirts on their backs.
Mr Williams writes driven, eloquent, emotionally-heightened poetry that is an excellent vehicle for poems about loss, frantic self-questioning, anguish, despair and also for exultation.
The coincidence of occasional episodes of millennial exultation and persecution (e.g., about ad 200) suggests the existence of a relationship between apocalyptic expectations and imperial persecutions.
Hannah's song of exultation (chapter 2, verses 1 10) probably became the basis of the form and content of the Magnificat, the song that Mary, the mother of Jesus, sang in Luke, chapter 1, verses 46 55, in the New Testament.
But Quirós's exultation was brief; troubles forced his return to Latin America.
The second cause is matter of exultation to the philanthropist and philosopher, and of regret to the poet…namely, the security, comparative equability, and ever-increasing sameness of human life.
Stubbs's empathy for the animal world reemerged in the work of James Ward, together with an exultation in the power of nature, shared by Philip James de Loutherbourg.
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The primary grammatical function of "exultation" is as a noun , representing a state or feeling of extreme joy and triumph. As evidenced by Ludwig's examples, it often acts as the subject or object of a sentence, describing the emotional response to a significant event.
Expression frequency: Very common
