What is "elation"

Usage examples of "elation".

The Ampersand troops, who had memorized every detail of that layout, stared in astonishment and elation.

Where the public feels knee-jerk fright, Cyfer expresses hushed elation.

So when the word had reached him that Boba Fett was dead, dissolved in the digestive secretions of the Sarlacc beast, a combination of elation and frustration had welled up inside him.

And the way the driver is hurling her about in the back is adding to her elation, as though she was at a fun fair on the Roller Ghoster, which used to come to Highbury Fields: Roll up, roll up, Roller Ghoster, fast ride, fast ride, down the hill, Roller Ghoster.

A sudden panic had gripped the leading french grenadiers who were giving ground to the vengeful redcoats, but Loup felt nothing but elation.

When Pilau backed his brutish vehicle to the cart, Lovett saw an excited exchange between his friends and hurried to them, wondering what their elation was all about.

From this pinnacle of elation and pride they were precipitated to the abyss of despondence or dejection, by the account of the miscarriage at St.

Her initial elation at being trusted with his correspondence, at being installed in his very own chair at the polished walnut helm of Rackham Perfumeries, has been spoilt by his frighteningly volatile moods.

Sumomo reaching endlessly in her sleeve for the next shuriken, seeing only the great enemy lying helpless and his dimwitted whore who had caused this unnecessary conclusion gaping at her, a pillar of fear --but feeling no fear herself, only elation, sure that this was her zenith, the moment she had been born for and had trained all her life for, and that now, invincible champion of the shishi, she would conquer and, dying, live in legend forever .

She felt grim elation when she finally murmured to Spooner to slow down the speed of the sedan.

Marillier dwelt on this thought, in spite of his reluctance to look at the fetich and ascertain for himself how much of life and power remained in it, a sense of superphysical elation filled him.

The tribute was one Adams would quote repeatedly in letters, and understandably, given his elation and the spirit of the moment.

The sudden thrust causes my flesh-organ to sag and grow dazed in its fluid, but its long presence has taught my mechanical circuits how to respond, and I can still feel elation athough the organ is half-asleep.

As the import of his words became apparent to Carleton, the clubman smiled in elation.

Richard Nixon has been broken, whipped and castrated all at once, but even for me there is no real crank or elation in having been a front-row spectator at the final scenes, the Deathwatch, the first time in American history that a president has been chased out of the White House and cast down in the ditch with all the other geeks and common criminals.