(a.) Boiling up or over; hence, manifesting exhilaration or excitement, as of feeling; effervescing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Now, despite the challenges, Spurr appears ebullient.
(2) It was flattering, appropriate (despite inevitable "oo-er, heels at a sports event" comments in the media) and, crucially, the look was not overpowered by Obama's mustard cashmere cardigan – although she was as ebullient and as natural as we have come to expect.
(3) But the more understated David Tanner, GB Rowing performance director, and sailing's ebullient Stephen Park have been equally influential in their own sports.
(4) Toby Young called her a "petulant prima donna" in the Telegraph, while Observer critic Robert McCrum wrote that, as "an ebullient and pioneering feminist publisher from the 1970s [it's] hardly a surprise that she should find herself unresponsive to Roth's lifelong subject: the adventures of the ordinary sexual [American] man".
(5) In 1961, Freeman took over Pick of the Pops from David Jacobs, and successfully managed to relegate the musical content to second place with his ebullient presenting manner.
(6) It was a cruel irony that so ebullient and brilliant a speaker - he was the irreplaceable host of the Evening Standard Drama Awards for many years - should be deprived of his voice in the last months of his life.
(7) In 2011, director Michel Hazanavicius delighted Cannes with the grace and ebullience of his silent pastiche The Artist .
(8) After the John Birt regime, however, his ebullient leadership style involving "cut the crap" and "let's make it happen" initiatives was welcomed by staff,who had felt creativity had been repressed for far too long under the weight of bureaucracy.
(9) Merkel, the great political survivor of Europe, and Mr Ebullience, the new inductee from down under.
(10) To find ways of sharing their enthusiasm and gifts with our communities, above all in works of mercy and concern for others?” Mother of disabled child kissed by pope applauds Francis's 'love for everybody' Read more At the barricades, the ebullient crowd mingled with police, national guardsmen in fatigues, and wary agents from the secret service and FBI, in suits save for telltale holsters, badges and microphones.
(11) It is an ebullient, bustling and self-confident city, and any changes need to take these essential characteristics onboard.
(12) And Pakistan's ebullient media are having a field day.
(13) But not in a sort of ebullient way, I just feel quietly confident and settled.
(14) Sarah Sands, ebullient towards the end of a 12-hour first day as deputy editor last week, is to mastermind a daily Trends section with new columns on sex and style.
(15) As for his lordship, he is ebullient as ever and feels vindicated that he can defend “the values that led me to join the Liberal party in my teens”.
(16) And so the performance, rehearsed with the professionals and now played with them, proceeds on its mettle – boisterous and ebullient, ending in applause.
(17) While wealthy nations mull over climate projections and agonise over potential dips in GDP, the stereotypically ebullient Pacific islanders aim to bring some steely reality to Paris.
(18) Boys were rated as more attentive, hyperactive, ebullient and sociable; girls were described as more placid and talkative.
(19) A particular case attracted my attention: the Daily Mail interviewed "Rudi" , described as "an ebullient 28 years old" who lives with his family on benefits, around Nottingham.
(20) It is 11am and this is his fourth interview of the day, starting at some ungodly hour with a baptism of bosomy fire courtesy of Lorraine Kelly and followed by a stream of ebullient radio presenters.
Rejoice
Definition:
(v. i.) To feel joy; to experience gladness in a high degree; to have pleasurable satisfaction; to be delighted.
(v. t.) To enjoy.
(v. t.) To give joy to; to make joyful; to gladden.
(n.) The act of rejoicing.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fall of a tyrant is usually the cause of popular rejoicing followed by public vengeance.
(2) With gratitude and rejoice, we commemorate the return to International arena.
(3) The markets went quiet, Spain, Italy, and Ireland rejoiced, as Draghi emphasised for the third time in six weeks that the euro is irreversible.
(4) Yet while our national income is almost back to where it was before the crisis (rejoice!
(5) The over-50s, rejoicing in the untaxed capital gains they enjoy from buying property a generation ago, will help their own kids, but are not asked to help anyone else’s.
(6) Green campaigners were rejoicing over the departure of the climate sceptic, while the National Farmers' Union was downcast at the exit of a cabinet minister who consistently stuck up for rural areas.
(7) He sounds, as it were, the fatal bottom of our organic existence, and yet claims not merely to accept the universe, as another Transcendentalist, Margaret Fuller, put it, but to rejoice in it.
(8) Allowed to play, Alan Pardew having opted against recalling the out-of-favour Mile Jedinak to anchor his midfield, the visitors rejoiced.
(9) In an interview on his 90th birthday, he was asked if he had rejoiced at the news.
(10) "I think Africans rejoicing at his making it to office came from the need for a psychological boost as well as an indication of Africans buying into the American dream – that one's roots can be African and one can succeed in life, with those roots.
(11) As a Guardian writer, I should rejoice at the added readers and influence we will get (though all these challenges are ours, too).
(12) Northerners, it seems, are expected to rejoice at the fact they can commute to well-paying jobs in the south-east without having to up sticks.
(13) In the fevered Daily Mail version, this fact suggests a nefarious and hyperactive court, up to mischief and rejoicing in 'overruling' national authorities, better to promote the interests of sex offenders and the homicidal.
(14) "Rather than seeing this as a negative, we need to rejoice, Maranatha, come Lord Jesus, His day is at hand," she said in an interview with a Christian radio station.
(15) However, it is still early for us to rejoice knowing that China is not heeding the ruling.
(16) Greeks,” he said, “should rejoice.” The government that had put the country through an assault course of austerity would soon be over.
(17) The home crowd were silenced, the Irish players rejoiced.
(18) He taught us so much about seizing opportunities and rejoicing in everything life could offer, no matter how small.” Hett’s friend Christina wrote that her heart was “broken into a million pieces” at the loss of “my best friend, my maid of honour”.
(19) The protesters, including a choir singing the Hallelujah chorus from Handel's Messiah, rejoiced at his departure.
(20) Until recently, most self-respecting rock bohemians would stay at the dilapidated but charming Chelsea, where they would rejoice in being shouted at by the manager for daring to ask to have the room where Sid Vicious killed Nancy Spungen.