When a Kmart opened on Astor Place, this man was close to ecstatic, although I suppose he was ecstatic a lot of the time.
I'm closer to the ecstatic camp.
At the end of the "Herr, lehre doch mich" movement, for example, Mr. Masur drew a sound from both the orchestra and the chorus that was as close to ecstatic as this music allows.
Tim Kawakami, The Mercury News: HOUSTON — They were ecstatic, they were sad, they were yelling, they were regularly close to tears.
Papamal, 70, a cleaner, could not jam herself into the venue and was forced to listen from the roadside, but afterward she was glowing anyway, ecstatic to have been so close to Ms. Jayaram.
A more hazardous reply was to appeal to ecstatic prophecy.
The musicals "The Scottsboro Boys" and "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" are closing with unhappy dispatch, despite reviews that range from respectful to ecstatic.
Not everyone is going to be ecstatic about your product.
"He was so ecstatic to do it," she said.
I've never been so ecstatic to be somewhere.
