Sentences with phrase «ecstatic at»

It's true $ 350 makes for a pretty expensive ceiling fan, but any smart home enthusiast would be ecstatic at the thought of having a Siri - controlled fan in their home.

We are ecstatic at the opportunity to integrate this important selection of their resources in the creation of a service that makes affordable research possible.»

I'd bet your life that Roberts is ecstatic at how he totally nuked Cox.

When the virtual console first released, every gamer was nothing short of ecstatic at the idea.

Under normal circumstances, I would be ecstatic at the news that a new console is going to be announced.

I, for one, am positively ecstatic at the thought, yet doubtful at the same time.

Attendees were ecstatic at the ruling, since it will encourage adoption.

I am ecstatic at the results of my portfolio so far this year!

While I was ecstatic at getting HoneyStreak to run on my Dell Streak 7, the experience was not without its issues.

So while a grandfather is shown going ecstatic at the sight of his first grandson from home, children in a remote village school are seen enjoying a movie via the internet.

If I was a passionate opponent of school choice, I think I'd be ecstatic at the prospect of having Donald Trump's administration champion a big, visible, controversial school choice bill.

Any other studio would probably be proud to put their name on this film and would be ecstatic at the box office grosses.

Surely, she did not see it coming and was ecstatic at JK Rowling's kind words.

It even ends with a feeble joke where Woodcock tells Farley to do some pushups, though how it's hard to groan when you're ecstatic at seeing the end credits finally arrive.

I gifted the necklace to my daughter and she was Ecstatic at not only the gift but the quality.

While not 100 % intervention free, I am ecstatic at the pain med free birth experience I had, in no small part due to the team I had around me.

«I feel extremely fortunate and honored that I have been selected as an EMCR winner and I am ecstatic at the prospect of being able to pursue my research interests through this amazing program,» Quaglioni said.

Lopez said he was ecstatic at the decision.

We start our round - up with news from Madrid, where Jose Mourinho is ecstatic at being named this year's winner of the highly sought - after Nobel Prize for Medicine.

The French club will not exactly be ecstatic at facing one of the tournament favourites so early in the competition, with the tie the most appealing of the round and set to be a heavyweight clash atypical of the first knockout round.

You sound like the Spurs fans who are ecstatic at beating us and going above us in the table, as if that's how the table will look at the end of the season.

i guess little mix will also be ecstatic at what must be welcome news; Now, how much does alexis merit well he's at the end of contract and in position to call his own shots.

Horns honking non-stop, people hanging out of cars on the street, strangers hugging each other, and just generally an entire city being collectively ecstatic at the same time.

«Then it hit me that we were going to try and make this project into something real, and I felt ecstatic at what is to come down the road.»

Reaction to this news from the media world has tended to fall somewhere between shock and ridicule — unless the person in question is an investor in or former employee of Business Insider, of course, in which case they seem ecstatic at the possibility of a massive windfall.

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Gravity was flooded with stories from ecstatic workers elsewhere who suddenly got raises from converted bosses who tossed them out like Scrooge after his epiphany — even, in one case, at an apparel factory in Vietnam.

Small businesses across the United States may have grumbled when the president raised the hourly minimum wage on August 20, but at least one company is ecstatic.

Greeted by an ecstatic toddler at a Sudbury campaign rally, Wynne joined her in jumping up and down with a laugh — her staff call it «grandma mode.»

«If we come in at the end of the year with a net 8 percent return, everybody should be ecstatic,» he added.

And at least two - thirds of them were ecstatic, mobb...

An eager and ecstatic group of young entrepreneurs was out to prove that Ottawa isn't just a government town, but a city full of big dreams worth chasing, at Friday's 20th annual...

I have zero interest in play - it - safe politicians and I am ecstatic Don has the guts to chase the bigger challenge of Mayor, even at 34.

The day after indie - rock favorite The Violet Burning offered an energetic and deeply spiritual live show to an ecstatic audience at Cornerstone Festival, RELEVANT sat down with Michael J. Pritzl,...

One way to illustrate the full scope of this problem would be to look more closely at the horizonal character of the ecstatic past in contrast with the past of the ordinary interpretation of time, which is only understood by negative contrast with the present.5 Here Mason, apparently following Whitehead, allows us to make a particularly striking contrast: we can never change the past» he says (p. 95), meaning to evoke what Heidegger calls Dasein's «facticity» and to compare it with the objectivity with which perished actual occasions confront the concrescing actual entity in Whitehead.

Whiteheadians seem able to imagine such ecstatically spanned unities - across - time on the so - called «microscopic» scale of the «specious present,» but give up on the idea as the scope of the temporal disclosure space is widened to the scale of human lifetime and of generations.7 But worse than this from the point of view of Heidegger's temporal problematic, by submitting the ecstatic unities of their «specious presents» to the before / after ordering and metric properties of linear time, at least in terms of their mutually external relations and arrangements, they give back ontologically every advantage they gained from the use of an cc - static - temporal disclosure horizon in the first place, even though it was only the single horizon of presence.

I never have to look at my stuff, own my stuff or deal with my stuff as long as holiness / wholeness is about busy programs or ecstatic experiences.

It has, of course, occasionally been so argued.4 The interpretation of Old Testament prophetism as an essentially ecstatic phenomenon differing not at all in this respect from the ecstatic prophecy characteristic of the ancient Near and Middle East continues to be advocated, especially by those who are persuaded of prevailing ancient Eastern institutional uniformity.5

The ecstatic element in classical prophetism, insofar as it exists at all, is largely confined to tile prophets» profound concentration, which may result in the suspension of normal consciousness and the total, if brief, interruption of normal sense perception.6

The person at play knows no limits; he is ecstatic and wonderful — embracing the individual and dynamic while fleeing from the sanctions imposed both by other players and by rules.

The analysis of a characteristic prophetic form of utterance (German: Gattung) defines both the subject of «ecstatic» concentration and at the same time the nature and significance of the unmistakably non-ecstatic; that is, the role of the prophet's normally functioning senses.

In denying that he is — or «was» — a prophet, it is possible that Amos means to reject any insinuation that he is himself an ecstatic prophet or a professional cult prophet, and at the same time, to dissociate himself from and repudiate the cult prophetism at the Bethel sanctuary, over which Amaziah presided.

If the church's theology were informed more by biblical expectations of a redeemed creation and less by general religious longings for ecstatic experience and timeless truth, Christians would find themselves at the very least congenial toward those who, with a passionate «loyalty to things» and a «cosmic act of allegiance,» struggle to unpack the secrets of life on this planet and to work with it toward a new day.

(For Bingham the traditional concepts of religion are principally about subjective experience — and ecstatic experience at that.)

On the contrary, it has been precisely those forms of religion believed in one way or another to be antithetical to a secular world, and so vulnerable to «the acids of modernity,» that have sprouted up everywhere and have grown at an astounding rate; namely, fundamentalist religion of every variety; ecstatic, charismatic religion; esoteric, cultic religion; mystical, otherworldly religion; religious sectarianism that «opts out» of society, its customs and its responsibilities — not to mention every possible variety of the occult.

When the Tertio alumni reunited in Rome at the turn of the millennium, his mood was ecstatic.

Such an intuitive or ecstatic insight often possesses a compelling urgency that lends it the character of logical necessity; i.e., at times the vision seems to impress itself upon cognitive awareness with forceful cogency.

At the other extreme are those moments of ecstatic joy which are the zenith in our quest for the good life.

A friend who works for a large healthcare network showed me an ecstatic email she received from the hospital management today at work - they were dancing in the aisles - and expecting thousands and thousands of new patients...

Just as each individual must arrive at his nadir of exhausted possibilities, at which point of death he is united to God, so also that portion of the human race which has achieved its historical limit must now find death and life in an ecstatic moment of self - forgetfulness.

There were undoubtedly at Jerusalem prophets and teachers, as well as administrators and helpers (we can be less sure of the various kinds of ecstatics); but in all probability all of them belonged among the «elders» of the church.