Intense elation

Usage examples of euphoria.

The boy stood beside the curule chair and looked down at the crowd, this his first experience of the extraordinary euphoria so many united people could generate, feeling the adulation brush his cheek because he stood so close to its source, and understanding what it must be like to be the First Man in Rome.

Dark fudgy flavor exploded in my mouth and a burst of chocolate euphoria sparked up my spine.

Sanity returned slowly, Sarah climbed from the pit of euphoria, to sated reality.

The vortex of psynergy around Sumner widened, and the torchbearers and guards were seized in a slow-motion upflow of euphoria.

They spent the afternoon in a daze of euphoria buying cob webby underwear made by the nuns at the local convent, an extravagance that Shelley protested against quite vehemently until she had an illuminating mental vision of Jaime seeing her in the exquisite hand-embroidered garments.

For those situations in which these measures prove inadequate, chemists have produced a stunning array of drugs to control the mind, such as those to enable people to relax, to become mentally aroused and alert, to sleep, to relieve anxiety, to overcome depression, to counteract attentional disorders, to improve the memory, and to experience euphoria, bliss, and even alleged mystical states of consciousness.

I might grieve if I wished - surely grief was in the order of these new emotions, euphoria and dread, a bacchanal needing no wine - but not here.

Stronger drugs, such as the opiates, force the release of vast amounts of dopamine, flooding the pleasure centres in the brain - leading to intense euphoria.

They gave the pills time to take general effect, giving us all a good jolt of euphoria, which always comes in handy, and curing our helplessness.

Gavin, who had drifted past the other booths in a kind of mind-blasted euphoria, unimpressed and unmotivated, hesitated in front of this blatant disregard for the proprieties.

After the first euphoria, and when the financial loss had begun to bite, the burden of guilt on the paid-for victim became too great, and the resentment of the payers too intense, and they too began to feel guilt for their resentment, and could eventually hate the victim for love of whom they had beggared themselves.

Fadil Amin, an unemployed translator, shares his euphoria saying, "This is the best July 17" I've seen so far because there is no Saddam and no Baath.

There will be a severe blunting of affect, to the extent you may well see a shallow, famous euphoria.

After the short-lived euphoria of Munich, people across the nation had found themselves awakening to the sober realization that they did not feel reassured of having bought peace in their time, and that shame and guilt had not been appeased.

He could feel his central nervous system wavering back and forth between agony and euphoria.