"ultimate joy" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is an expression of the highest and most complete happiness or pleasure that one can feel. Example: After passing the final exam, she felt an ultimate joy that she was finally finished with school.
There are many paths to ultimate joy, and not all of them involve gods or crucifixions.
And as uncomfortable and joy-lacking as it may seem, it is only by the cross we are given ultimate joy.
Seldom has a team so visibly demonstrated over 90 minutes how to turn the despair of losing into the ultimate joy of winning in the way that Bayern Munich did Saturday night.
But really what you long for is just one more episode of your unscripted beer opera, a fresh three-hour delectation of anxiety, uncertainty, and occasional (or, if you are fortunate, ultimate) joy.
When we understand that we are more than our physical bodies, that we didn't come from nothingness and will not disappear into nothingness, we are liberated from fear, he says; fearlessness is not only possible but the ultimate joy.
It's the word "only" in your penultimate sentence, where you write, "as uncomfortable and joy-lacking as it may seem, it is only by the cross we are given ultimate joy".
People need to rediscover that "the ultimate joys are moral joys", he says.
Through your intense brown eyes, you have experienced the ultimate joys of happiness and felt the excruciating pain of rejection and loss.
But this post isn't about that, it's about two young players who are totally focused on experiencing the ultimate NFL joy of hoisting the Super Bowl.
If one neighborhood at a time is not enough, consider the ultimate people-watching joy ride: taking a subway line from one end to the other.
