Sentence examples for initial elation from inspiring English sources

Narendra Sethia was on board the Conqueror and remembers the initial elation felt by the crew when the torpedoes struck.

After the initial elation I immediately thought, oh dear - what school is she going to go to?

It says everything that, once Quique Sánchez Flores's initial elation dies down, it will be Watford who feel they might have missed out.

The Tory party's initial elation had given way to the realisation that no one was really listening, but Amanda remained amazingly upbeat.

AFTER the initial elation wore off (his girlfriend said yes to his proposal), Dr. Yoni Schwartz then had an "oh, no" moment: He weighed 225 pounds and had a double chin.

Nicholas Bequelin, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch in Hong Kong, said his initial elation sagged after he participated in a conference call with State Department officials who were trying to explain the deal to American rights groups.

Among the displays of initial disbelief, elation and courteous good-for-yous that made up the comments on that Facebook status, one stood out in particular.

The next inevitable phase of the Jeremy Lin story is under way, in which reasonable doubts and manufactured controversy replace the initial burst of elation.

That initial burst of elation has passed though, and for the past hour the astronauts aboard the space station and their ground crews have buckled down to get some more work done.

My initial feeling was elation.

My initial reaction was elation, but there was a time when I went through a mourning phase of sorts.