While we got hotter and thirstier as the heat beat down on us. The somebody would call in a voice full of elation
Emily was feeling the elation of conscientious hosts when they can temporarily escape a ubiquitous houseguest.
I could be really sad and I start to cry; I feel alive then. I could be at a concert and I throw my hands up in the air and I feel elation; I feel alive then.
With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.
But away from the rituals of Washington, alongside the elation of [Donald] Trump supporters, there is deep anxiety, anger and fear.
Breaking a glass in the northwest is rather like belching in Arabia, for it appears to be done as a mark of appreciation or elation.
Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.
Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood
The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation--it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him.
Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication. . . . Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths. . . . But in liberty moderation is wholesome, and so it is in wine. . . . We ought not indulge too often, for fear the mind contract a bad habit, yet it is right to draw it toward elation and release and to banish dull sobriety for a little.
You feel a sense of elation seeing yourself on a billboard.
An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a human being. . . that is the true glory of sport.
Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
So many more cycles of elation of the first kiss, and devastation when it's over.
When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential.
The stockmarket is a semi-psychotic creature given to extremes of elation and despair.
Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.
There are days when simply seeing feels like happiness itself. . . . You feel so rich, the elation seems almost excessive and you want to share it
