(n.) The act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful; a gladdening.
(n.) The state of being enlivened or cheerful.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s exhilarating – until you see someone throw a firework at a police horse.
(2) A few years later, I marched in protest at the imminent invasion of Iraq and felt the same exhilaration at being part of a collective.
(3) "By far the most exhilarating and life-affirming concert I have ever experienced."
(4) He tells an amusing story of how exhilarated, if stunned, he was by completing three skeleton runs at Lillehammer.
(5) The NBA players dramatically underestimated the speed and skill of their opponents, and are narrowly defeated by the North Koreans in an exhilarating match.
(6) Most had never done any of these things before, but they needed no encouragement: the exhilaration with which they explored the living world seemed instinctive.
(7) Without Sergio Agüero and David Silva it was probably inevitable that City would not be at their most exhilarating.
(8) Exhilarating and liberating The next government will also have to cope with Britain's slipping position in the world.
(9) There are exhilarating moments, as at the Guggenheim in Bilbao , where spiralling stairs flow on to landings and views are cut through the different volumes, but above all there is an overwhelming feeling of lots and lots of empty space.
(10) Rachel Smith, 41, Belfast Facebook Twitter Pinterest Exhilarating ... Rachel makes a dash for Portavogie beach, Northern Ireland.
(11) The contrast between country and city, ancient and modern, was exhilarating, like having the Pennine Way start in London's Richmond Park.
(12) But surely there must be executives in the world of business who would relish the unique and exhilarating challenge of keeping Britons warm and well-lit while building a power system fit for a low-carbon world?
(13) Walcott seemed determined to make amends for his earlier mistake and Mesut Özil was prominently involved without being at his most exhilarating.
(14) Hard to see the woman who once observed that “the creative winds of destruction don’t feel quite so exhilarating when they’re sweeping past your factory gates” embracing tech giants as uncritically as the tech junkie Osborne.
(15) At first it was exhilarating to fire the gun and I was frustrated that my cousins wouldn't let me go out with them to fight.
(16) However, the potentially exhilarating and welcome aspect of what Ed Miliband and his core colleagues offer is the prospect of a new social compact, replacing what Stewart Wood at a one nation conference last Thursday called "the exhaustion of the old settlement".
(17) What haunts them, however, is a creeping dread that nearly 500 days of unprecedented insurrection, mobilisation and exhilaration is about to end in despair: that Walker will defeat the Democratic challenger, Tom Barrett, and thereby sow defeat for Democratic causes and candidates nationwide, including President Barack Obama.
(18) The machinery - the spinning gazebo, the train, the paddle-powered airship - whirrs along at the delicate yet exhilarating pace of clockwork.
(19) It fitted with the exhilarating sense that plagues were being visited on us, but only lighthearted ones.
(20) "It's a completely gut-churning experience but it's really exhilarating at well," says Ayoade, who co-wrote the screenplay with Avi Korine, Harmony's brother.
Happiness
Definition:
(n.) Good luck; good fortune; prosperity.
(n.) An agreeable feeling or condition of the soul arising from good fortune or propitious happening of any kind; the possession of those circumstances or that state of being which is attended enjoyment; the state of being happy; contentment; joyful satisfaction; felicity; blessedness.
(n.) Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace; -- used especially of language.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is not an argument for the status quo: teaching must be given greater priority within HE, but the flipside has to be an understanding on the part of students, ministers, officials, the public and the media that academics (just like politicians) cannot make everyone happy all of the time.
(2) Infants were habituated to models posing either prototypically positive displays (e.g., happy expressions) or positive expression blends (e.g., mock surprise).
(3) His greatest legacy, besides his three children, is the joy and happiness he offered to others, particularly to those fighting personal battles.
(4) United and West Ham are on similar runs and can feel pretty happy about themselves but are not as confident away from home as they are at home and that will have to change if they are to make ground on the top teams.
(5) Not even housebuilders are entirely happy, although recent government policies such as Help to Buy and the encouragement of easy credit have helped their share prices rise.
(6) I’m so happy to be joining Arsenal, a club which has a great manager, a fantastic squad of players, huge support around the world and a great stadium in London,” said Sánchez.
(7) As for gay men, there is absolutely nothing that suggests they are any less war-happy than heterosexuals.
(8) While the Spielberg of popular myth is Mr Nice Guy, Lean was known as an obsessive, cantankerous tyrant who didn't much like actors and was only truly happy locked away in the editing suite.
(9) That latter issue is quite controversial in Germany, where the Bundesbank is not happy about surrendering control to the ECB .
(10) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
(11) Outwardly, his life was successful, happy, on course.
(12) Pointing out that “the army has its own fortune teller”, he sounds less than happy at the state of affairs: “The country is run by superstition.” Weerasethakul is in a relatively fortunate position, in that his arcane films are not exactly populist and don’t depend on the mainstream Thai film industry for funding, but he has become cast as a significant voice of dissent in a difficult time .
(13) John Hansen, president of the Nebraska Farmers Union, said the landowners his group represents "are obviously not happy" that the beetles are being removed.
(14) I was just happy he got his licence back so I could clean him out."
(15) He is an academy product and truthfully we are, and me above all, happy to have him with us.
(16) Thirty-two nursing students were shown silent films in which 10 normal and 10 schizophrenic women described a happy, sad, and an angry personal experience.
(17) Indeed, the distribution of couples according to a multifactorial risk index does in fact establish a connection between the couple's happiness and the level of risk during sexual relations within and outside the couple.
(18) But some wise old heads sniff into their handkerchiefs because they have sat through too many costly "happy ever after" ceremonies that ended in acrimony.
(19) I can calmly say that his future will still be at Juventus, where he feels very happy,” he parped.
(20) In a series of analyses guided by intuitive hypotheses, the Smith and Ellsworth theoretical approach, and a relatively unconstrained, open-ended exploration of the data, the situations were found to vary with respect to the emotions of pride, jealousy or envy, pride in the other, boredom, and happiness.