It's the height of ecstasy".
"It was the height of ecstasy culture," he adds, which means, I think, that they lived at night: Hack and Rankin used to put on clubs, where they'd meet equally enthusiastic new contributors, who'd stay up until dawn discussing ideas.
Those two are constantly hugging and pawing at each other, though so far their mutual attraction hasn't yet extended to full osculation on the floor of the Congress, a height of ecstasy memorably attained by Mr. Lieberman and President Bush.
They played a great defensive game against the Tennessee Titans, and never had the lead until the final 16 seconds, and then went from the heights of ecstasy to the depths of despair in the final 13 seconds.
The is the special case arising from confusion between the ordinary sense of a word and its metaphorical, figurative, or technical employment (example: "For the past week Joan has been living on the heights of ecstasy". "And what is her address there?").
There is a single word, about three quarters of the way through this book, spoken at the heights of ecstasy by a 59-year-old man to a 30-year-old woman, that is so appalling, so extraordinary and so unutterably Jilly Cooper you can't imagine anyone on the receiving end of it not immediately dissolving in horrified laughter, kicking the offender out of bed, and calling the OED.
I know how hard it can be when you really like someone: you can't stop thinking about them, you're ecstatic when you're with them and when you're apart, any message from them can either lift you up to the heights of ecstasy or plunge you into the pits of despair.
At the height of this ecstasy, I saw migraine shining like an archipelago of stars in the neurological heavens.
Things don't really pick up again until There Is No Ice (For My Drink), propelled by a muffled thump like a house night heard from the smoking area – and that's when we see a dash of Yorke's genius, as he garnishes the track with a wordless vocal refrain that lifts it from the gurning grime of the club floor to the heights of an ecstasy epiphany.
These interactive works will take us to new heights of unimaginable ecstasy, and to the lowest depths of all recorded experience.
Stressing the lyrical, as has often been pointed out, the Chinese poet refrains from being exhaustive, marking instead the heights of his ecstasies and inspiration or the depths of sorrow and sympathy.
