Sentence examples for rather ecstatic from inspiring English sources

She'd done bad things, or so she believed, but now was religiously observant, born again and rather ecstatic.

So I got up and played the messages, and it was a guy from the Associated Press saying that I won and asking me to call him back, and the second message from my friend Marcia said the same thing, that I had won, and she was rather ecstatic.

The verdict was approving rather than ecstatic: 'pleasant', 'nice'a 'a proper pudding'.

There is a money-shot, but it's bloody rather than ecstatic.

But, while it's fine if they want to put those words on the posters, the compliment is factual rather than ecstatic.

Even his grand finale — bringing on the Abyssinian Baptist Choir to join him in "If You're Out There," the song about changing the world that he introduced at the 2008 Democratic National Convention — worked up to its gospelly culmination with deliberation rather than ecstatic release.

Under the circumstances, we can be satisfied rather than ecstatic about things".

James Beaven, a student in Edinburgh: I am relieved rather than ecstatic.

The Verve has always prized enormity, and "Forth" is packed with hyperbolic anthems that vacillate between ecstatic ("Rather Be") and devastating ("Appalachian Springs"); nothing here is simply felt.

But the executive editor, Myron Kolatch, rather than sounding ecstatic about forging into new territory, said he was distinctly unhappy about it.

Squeeze a blob of cadmium red out of a tube, and my heart beats faster, which is why I think I'd call the pictures ecstatic rather than anguished.