While he does eventually renew his belief in the Lord it comes as a result of resolving family conflicts and not an ecstatic vision of the Lord. |
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Now you have an idea of the ecstatic gratitude I have been feeling since I returned. |
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Mr. Baylos, of course, was ecstatic to find that not only had he finally been booked for the Carson show but that he'd be sitting in for Johnny. |
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A lot has been made of their euphoric, ecstatic joie de vivre, but I have to say that mainly I find the overall tone rather irritating. |
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Varieties of religious experience often appear under other labels such as mystical, ecstatic, numinous, anomalous, and paranormal. |
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Because of his ecstatic effusions on nature, Shelley is sometimes labeled a pantheist. |
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But people really ought to be ecstatic because it's become such an awful place to work. |
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The Sherpa-roadies were ecstatic and told jokes throughout the evening, while each of us nodded speciously, not really listening. |
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The French talk in almost ecstatic terms about the spine of the team being restored. |
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The music is an ecstatic dance, occasionally breaking out into full-throated ardent song. |
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We start low and slow, but ultimately we should always find a very ecstatic and expansive manner in which to proclaim our peace. |
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Are the people who experience ecstatic religious states just having a really good trip? |
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This Cancerian week brings mood swings, from ecstatic highs to low down lows. |
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I hang up on my wildly ecstatic literary agent rather abruptly and retrieve my morning paper from the coffee table before me. |
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Oh yes, sure I got messages from others, and of course I was ecstatic to hear from them. |
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Perhaps the energy generated by ecstatic dance in worship of the spirits can call the rains to come. |
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Now I knew why he was so happy upon my entering, he was on cloud nine, and was ecstatic to have someone to share it with. |
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It was also drunken frenzy which suggested to Nietzsche the ecstatic abandonment and orgiastic revelry of the ancient cult of Dionysus. |
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A group of teenage Chicanas sing a hymn with the flourishes of the gospel tradition, to the ecstatic applause of the congregation. |
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A little while after my sulking, Darren comes into my room, all ecstatic and chirpy. |
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Hot diggity! This portrait of the con artist as a young man comes to ecstatic life. |
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She has made a cinematographically beautiful film empty of Nabokov's ecstatic genius, his prescient psychology, and her own original talent. |
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I was ecstatic because I will learn all aspects of film making such as directing, editing and cinematography. |
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Yet all told, its simplicities are gloriously redeemed by the novel's intricate take on sexuality, and its ecstatic and gilded prose. |
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When the co-ordinators at the Miss World Canada pageant called her to tell her she was their pick, she was ecstatic and surprised. |
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I cannot tell you the joy of reunion, for no words would suffice to delve into such deep delight, such ecstatic rejoicing! |
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Of the most memorable, ecstatic and monumentally fun moments so far, many have happened while inebriated. |
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Laurie, in her ecstatic state, executed a pirouette, and began to sing in earnest. |
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It has gone from an ecstatic confluence of societal change and economic opportunity to a fusty business institution. |
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Mournful, quietly ecstatic ballads alternate with more riff based, rhythmically insistent workouts. |
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The final whistle sparked a pitch invasion of ecstatic fans and the Burnley players got off as quickly as they could. |
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The ecstatic crowd promptly rose to the occasion showing tremendous enthusiasm and support for the home band. |
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The pop star made a dream come true for one ecstatic fan yesterday when he treated her to a personal concert. |
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I couldn't have felt more ecstatic if the heavens had opened up and serenaded me with a chorus of angelic voices. |
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At the visitor centre, the comments on the building were almost all enthusiastic, even ecstatic. |
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All the inmates were ecstatic to hear that, but weren't exactly sure if it was true. |
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But I hoped he felt the same as I had, ecstatic and bubbling with happiness. |
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Golfers who hit their first tee shot out into the woods are not ecstatic about it. |
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But the kids will be ecstatic, and a happy child often begets a calm vacation. |
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He walked up to the table with a smile, and seemed excessively ecstatic to find her. |
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In recent months she has shamelessly mentioned Saab on more than 30 occasions and never in less than ecstatic terms. |
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All eighteen players played their hearts out and were ecstatic when the final whistle came. |
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If his team has banged in five, he's the most ecstatic fan on the park and doesn't mind who knows it. |
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So when Quirk books announced their mashup of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies in early 2009, I, like the rest of the Internet, was ecstatic. |
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As he moved through a huge crowd to the basilica's sanctuary, he received an ecstatic welcome. |
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I'm absolutely ecstatic at having the opportunity to learn from a professional cheerleader. |
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And when the game finally became available over the Internet last year, fans were ecstatic. |
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She grins at the sight of me, positively ecstatic at how beautifully I had cleaned up. |
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Nothing wrong with that especially when the resulting outcome is something bordering on a religious experience of aural ecstatic proportions. |
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But if you just have ecstatic experiences and the Torah is not stacked up on your heart, nothing happens. |
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He played with easy beguiling brilliance, like neon light, at times erupting into shards of pure ecstatic electric yearning. |
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This ecstatic last chapter where love and death are necessary ingredients of this epiphany, so Joycean in style, leaves the reader in abeyance. |
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It started on election night 1998 with John Howard jubilant before an ecstatic crowd. |
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This extract from Hildegard of Bingen, an abbess, is from a book of ecstatic visions. |
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Back out on the hill, they were ecstatic, their faces transfigured by huge, permanent smiles. |
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I can become ecstatic, dance and roll and shed tears and be overwhelmed with that bhava, drowned and intoxicated. |
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Much of Sufism seems to be focused on trying to raise up that higher self, the ecstatic experience in which you are in union with God. |
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Just a few numbers earlier he was welcomed by a rapturous reception from ecstatic fans chanting his name. |
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He cleared decisively, pumping his fist at the animated and ecstatic stand as the ref whistled for the last time. |
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His focus was on the furniture but he hardly got a chance to look at the stuff on display as ecstatic fans practically mobbed him for autographs. |
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The Scottish business community is ecstatic because, after being hanged and drawn, its quartering has been postponed for a twelvemonth. |
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There must be some lessons we can take from the past eight years of mean-spirited misrule in Ontario, but right now we're just ecstatic to see the back of the Tory government. |
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Jones was ecstatic, and started gesturing to a section of Australian spectators who had been goading him, while the rest of the team ran around like headless chickens. |
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Here's how ecstatic Boston fans got the news from their morning paper. |
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They didn't expect that until 2020, so that number makes them ecstatic. |
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Her two friends had been ecstatic to see her looking so much better. |
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When my eyes finally adjusted I was ecstatic with happiness. |
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I was absolutely ecstatic because it was the best shot of the day. |
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I received just over 200 for the last chapter, which made me ecstatic. |
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What's odd, however, is the sheer fervour with which he's using them, eyes blazing, grinning like a devotee of a particularly ecstatic religious cult. |
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Religion has always provided some kind of ecstatic experience. |
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The entrance to the ecstatic Dionysiac world in the Villa of the Mysteries is marked by Silenus playing a cithara at the edge of a rocky landscape. |
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He didn't want to scare her, but her reaction made him ecstatic. |
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By contrast, the sort of Church that Montanus offered was one of ecstatic prophecy, immediate eschatology, ascetic moral rigorism, and, at the same time, institutional chaos. |
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The Choir of Westminster Cathedral responds with a limpid beauty to the direction of Martin Baker whose patient enthusiasm is very evident in the ecstatic end-product. |
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The pop diva's appearance at a gay pride rally in Rome this weekend had revelers ecstatic and the supreme pontiff on the defense. |
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As Sclavis and Collignon explore the first of several ecstatic improvised conversations, whirling folk dances turn into warp-speed vocal scatting against electronic echoes. |
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Once he reached the temple, he was thrilled and ecstatic and, threw away all his clothes and entered the mandapam only in a small piece of loincloth. |
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The ecstatic crowds are groundlings, mere extras, reacting on cue. |
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He wrote six different sketches embodying different philosophical stances before settling on her ecstatic acceptance of fiery reunion in death with Siegfried. |
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I felt a tidal wave of relief, an ecstatic joy that couldn't be tainted. |
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His ecstatic, harmony-drenched odes to sunshine, surfboards, girls and cars played like a Californian counterpoint to the opening bars of Beatlemania. |
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So ecstatic were her fans that even the gray nail polish she wore onstage at the DNC became a talking point after the convention. |
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Everyone is tired out and ecstatic and consumed with anxiety and, in some part of their brains, still incredulous. |
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In contrast to the ecstatic mood of his partisans, the president was the opposite of triumphal. |
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He is politically incorrect, and glories in it with ecstatic gloat. |
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But Lenny Kaye's guitar stretches effortlessly from post-funeral ballad to ecstatic, crazy fury, and Smith's performance is fierce and horribly unbeautiful. |
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Kaeshammer performed with drums and string bass to an ecstatic crowd. |
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I'd been, if not exactly ecstatic, at least content with my lot. |
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Created with a rear-screen optical printer and mattes cut out of construction paper, A Man Whose Life Was Full of Woe has a rough, ecstatic collage quality. |
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As she raced up the stairs, she could hear sweet ecstatic giggles emitted into the air, and that low soft husky voice rolling words around better than the word coiner himself. |
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The limp untheatricality and stale visual aesthetic of the production are feeble responses to the elemental power and ecstatic lyricism of Wagner's score. |
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Portman fills out the character with a distinct kind of ecstatic fire. |
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Moreover, when a male mounts her, he raises his wings and flashes a billboard of yellow flight feathers accompanied by ecstatic squawking from both birds. |
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Charlie Kagami was ecstatic when he learned Tuesday night that he was paired with Pak. |
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To say that James Gunn is ecstatic is a vast understatement. |
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He was ecstatic when he heard that he was going to be a father. |
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Compersion is the coveted secret elixer of emotions because it promises to turn the pain of jealousy into an ecstatic calm, or ecstatic release. |
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Bobbie was dancing round the room on the tips of her toes uttering animal cries, apparently ecstatic in their nature. |
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Lights blazed down, but not too strongly, so that the dancers could drift along or jimjam in ecstatic rhythm, in a simulacrum of private worlds. |
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In the early decades of the church charismatic or ecstatic phenomena were commonplace. |
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Instead of embracing on a ship's prow, Sully and Neyfiri ride their banshee steeds in ecstatic communion across the Pandoran sky. |
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In the transition between the Edo and Meiji periods, the Ee ja nai ka movement, a spontaneous outbreak of ecstatic behavior, took place. |
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He heard only here and there the ecstatic burst of a mocking-bird's wonderful roulades. |
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Ayler was deemed unlistenably violent, but his playing was actually what you can hear at the ecstatic peaks of a gospel service. |
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Quick climb onto my back and cry wreck it wreck it like a frog in the grip of ecstatic amplexus. |
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Lightly breaded casaba wedges in a wonderful red ginger dipping sauce imparted an ecstatic buzz. |
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Lana and her crew were ecstatic to have the shoot in the kind of place where she could just get comfortable. |
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Face-painted, ecstatic crowds crammed in arenas across the country. |
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The two men maintained close contact throughout, like moseying wrestlers or ecstatic sidekicks. |
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Not only are stamp collectors enthusiastic about buying them, the youth and school going children are also ecstatic about buying these stamps. |
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But more than that, I was ecstatic and thrilled to find the animal, which looked surrealistically big in the illumination of my headlamp. |
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When Troy Hayden was born in July, 1973, the newlyweds were ecstatic. |
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I AM in ecstatic palpations as I have just realised I won't or don't ever have to do another school run again. |
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The 30-year-old Dundonian, left, was ecstatic at adding another gong to the bronze he shared with Neil Stirton. |
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The chance to marry my inamorato would make us both ecstatic. |
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Nonetheless, Morley writes, the critical reception was ecstatic. |
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In this ecstatic surge of floral imagery she relinquishes Bloom's presence for his name, and thus bequeaths him with his ghostdom and his passport to eternity. |
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Aristotle calls the flute orgiastic because it contributes to religious insanity but often refers to drums in bacchic, corybantic or similar ecstatic worship. |
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With clubbish kicks and snares and monumental build-ups before ecstatic crashes, Worlds is surely the work of someone who knows how to make popular dance music. |
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He has also been interpreted in the light of his association with ecstatic practices, and Jan de Vries compared him to the Hindu god Rudra and the Greek Hermes. |
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Ecstatic temporality transcends particular entities in two respects. |
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Ecstatic dancing was a feature of the international mystery religions, particularly the cult of Cybele as practised by her eunuch priests the Galli and of Isis. |
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