Sentence examples for sudden elation from inspiring English sources

When I gave her the tea, she put her little black purse on the floor and perched the Mason jar on her knees, then smiled at me with sudden elation.

The near accident traumatises him and the comment is made that "men condemned to death are subject to sudden moments of elation; as if, like moths in the fire, their destruction were coincidental with attainment".

Later, when he reveals that torturing children was a ploy, and that his real agenda was to hand over the keys to his candy empire to Charlie, the audience feels a sudden swell of elation that wouldn't be nearly as sweet if Wilder hadn't taken the character to such terrifying depths.

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You will need to decide whether a person is moving from elevated or hyperactive states of elation to sudden plunges.

That initial elation at the sudden abundance of money quickly fades and you go right back to being the way you always were.

Nowhere in a hospital can you walk without wandering into the memory pools of strangers — their dread of what was imminent in their lives, the wild elation of their hopes, their sudden terrible and irrefutable knowledge.

Laughter or strong emotions like elation and anger can set off sudden muscle weakness.

The canvas is pure shimmer and surge, veils of pale blue vibrating over thunderous ultramarine, the elation of uplift against the possible sudden downfall all there in the different speed, force and tension of brushmarks scudding round the canvas.

There was a sudden glint in Dad's eye and I ate faster out of sheer elation.

It was Keats, in a famous sonnet, who compared the sudden sense of expanded horizons he felt in reading Chapman's Elizabethan translation of Homer to Herschel's presumed elation at the sight of Uranus: "Then felt I like some watcher of the skies / When a new planet swims into his ken".