(1) "Businesses will be ecstatic at today's decision because the Games will bring a colossal one-off commercial boost to the entire country," said the group's president, Michael Cassidy.
(2) It's only fair to note that Apple fans are ecstatic at the prospect.
(3) Happiness psychosis, because of the ecstatic emotions associated therewith, often involves a direct drive to do artistic work.
(4) Bloom is an ecstatic witness, and for him there are no half measures.
(5) With Connor Wickham’s late volleyed goal offering Sunderland no consolation, Pardew assumed centre stage at the final whistle, striding on to the pitch and saluting Palace’s rightly ecstatic travelling support.
(6) Sturgeon in plea to anti-independence voters over referendum plan Read more Although Sturgeon offered to compromise on the timing of a second vote, she brought 2,000 ecstatic delegates at the SNP spring conference in Aberdeen to their feet on Saturday declaring: “There will be an independence referendum.” Relations between Sturgeon and May have badly deteriorated since last summer and this was reflected throughout a defiant speech.
(7) A six-piece band comprising of Win Butler, Will Butler, Régine Chassagne, Tim Kingsbury, Jeremy Gara and Richard Reed Parry, as well as a moveable feast of other players, over the past nine years and two more albums – Neon Bible (2006) and The Suburbs (2010) – they have built a reputation for both the intrigue and intelligence of their songwriting, as well as for live shows that can seem ecstatic, desperate and electric all at once.
(8) The authors describe an epileptic patient with ictal ecstatic experiences and an interictal behavioral change of hypergraphia.
(9) Some will betray flickers of relief or ecstatic incredulity; other faces drop.
(10) Iceland’s players are in there bobbing up and down like a bunch of non‑leaguers ecstatic at being drawn against Everton in the third round of the Cup, a reminder of the miniature scale of this obsessive social experiment.
(11) This article provides a review of the nature and role of hallucinogens in the ecstatic religion of contemporary and historical cultures in order to establish a background for analysis.
(12) The meaty melodies are provided by John Squire, pinning down the guitar surging from caustic feedback to ecstatic wah-wah chugging – all in the space of a song.
(13) #RedSox @HunterFelt October 31, 2013 3.01am GMT Cardinals 1 - Red Sox 6, top of the 8th Freese hits a grounder that Bogaerts handles just fine, he throws it to first, Freese is out and the Fenway crowd is about to sing the loudest, most ecstatic version of "Sweet Caroline" in human history.
(14) In fact, the novel, which took nine years to write, has had an ecstatic reception by anyone's standards.
(15) George Miller’s ecstatically received Mad Max: Fury Road is also closing in on the race, following a recent wealth of critical awards, and Golden Globe nominations for picture and director.
(16) While what the BBC was calling a "mini-riot" happened both inside and outside the Millbank tower, the people in charge of its news channel were presumably ecstatic: this kind of stuff, after all, is what rolling news was invented for.
(17) His performance in Sir Nicholas Hytner’s production of One Man, Two Guvnors for the National Theatre, a role conceived especially for Corden, won ecstatic reviews in London and Broadway and won him, stunningly, the Tony award for best actor, beating a shortlist that included Philip Seymour Hoffman, Frank Langella and James Earl Jones.
(18) Photograph: Amber Jamieson for the Guardian Nick Haby, a 27-year-old marketing assistant and organizer of the #AstoriaforHillary event at Icon declared himself “ecstatic” about Clinton’s win.
(19) Daniel Sturridge calls winner ‘a brilliant feeling’ after England beat Wales Read more “I’d have been a lot less ecstatic if we’d not conceded that late one against Russia at the weekend which robbed us of a deserved victory,” said Hodgson, whose reaction had been joyful in the dugout.
(20) I made my way to the beach afterwards, exhausted but ecstatic, my head full of beer and Brazilian football, and practically danced the two miles back to my hotel, cooling my sore feet in the crashing waves.
Jovial
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the god, or the planet, Jupiter.
(a.) Sunny; serene.
(a.) Gay; merry; joyous; jolly; mirth-inspiring; hilarious; characterized by mirth or jollity; as, a jovial youth; a jovial company; a jovial poem.
Example Sentences:
(1) That cameo seemed horribly emblematic of a thoroughly underwhelming opening half which ended unadorned by a single shot on target, but almost imperceptibly something was shifting, and Klopp’s demeanour slowly shifted from jovially laid-back to scratchy and irritable.
(2) Across town in Le Central restaurant, nicknamed Hollande's canteen, the atmosphere is jovial.
(3) A former Socialist party leader, he is a jovial, wise-cracking believer in consensus politics, who aides say never loses his rag and who so hates fights that he was once nicknamed "the marshmallow" within his own party, or "Flanby", after a wobbly caramel pudding.
(4) The reports of Abbott recoiling from Davis do not speak of a reciprocal and jovial situation.
(5) Instead, the least attractive aspects of London 2012, the ZiL lanes and the Visa-only policy and McDonald's and Coca-Cola as purveyors of sustenance to a sporting nation, were smothered not only by the competition but by the ocean of good humour fostered by the joviality of the volunteers, the inspirational architecture and the attention given to the natural landscape (with apologies to those who had to move to make room for it all).
(6) Despite such brooding work, in person Stephens is lanky, jovially sweary, with a disconcerting habit of speaking in elegant sentences, and bookends our interview with heartfelt tributes to his wife and three children.
(7) One summer day in 1994, my best friend Steve – a gentle, jovial guy with the most disarming chuckle – called and asked me to meet him for lunch.
(8) What is both shocking and bewildering about Hunt’s jovial after-dinner remarks is that this is the considered view of someone whose life has been devoted to not taking the world for what it seems to be.
(9) His sister, remarkably jovial, wears black for their younger brother Vangelis, who died of nobody will say exactly what two years ago next month, aged 52.
(10) He was reported to have been in jovial form following the christening of his granddaughter at Staghall Church near Belturbet, Co Cavan on Boxing Day before returning to Mountjoy.
(11) He is courteous, almost jovial, though not quite endearing.
(12) For eight months we have lived on porridge and bread and smuggled yogurt,” says Nabil, a jovial clerk employed by a pharmaceutical company, who did not want his full name published for security reasons.
(13) An unusually jovial Putin asked the minister during the presentation on Friday how long the water had remained untouched by human hands.
(14) It cuts, for all its apparently relaxed joviality, against the zeitgeist of almost every other influence and impact upon these children in a digital, postmodern, post-moral society seeped in celebrity culture and the creatively pointless quest for quick-hit reward – as was fully intended by the Venezuelans who created El Sistema.
(15) One of the Demon’s men, a jovial Muscovite, gave us a number to call so we could tell his relatives where to find his body when he is killed.
(16) The front office was run by a jovial Cockney, Charles Vidler, who had been the butler at the Astors' country house, Cliveden, until he was fired for being found in Lord Astor's bed.
(17) On screen, he has a shrewd intensity but in person he's expansive and jovial.
(18) The jovial NBC Today Show anchor is one of eight local and national meteorologists the Obama administration invited to the White House for one-on-one interviews with the president.
(19) He was always cheerful and jovial, looking on the light side of life.
(20) Perhaps what Claire Alexander at the University of Manchester calls the “jovial bigotry” of Farage and his ilk has helped channel their rage.