Sentences with phrase «exultation of»

«It's a vague exultation of blue skies.»

Two generations after the exultation of Independence and the concurrent horrors of Partition, contemporary artists mine the uneasy history of photography in India as a means to challenge outmoded narratives, share hidden stories, and make personal connections with tradition.

The artist continues his exultation of the familiar — frayed urban palms in Florida, highway overpasses, subway stations — with a series of lively new paintings on view through May 23 at Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles, marking his first solo show in the city in over a decade.

Whichever way his broad interests manifest in a complex and diverse repertoire of images, each painting, as Roberta Smith wrote in her New York Times review, «exemplifies the exultation of material that courses through much American painting.»

At one point he tries to explain that it's the thrill of the chase and the exultation of a once - in - a-lifetime gold strike that fuels his passion, not the money.

«The exultation of self - righteousness is a shallow pleasure that traps us in an obsession with the past.

So, as he has done countless times, he looked toward first as he ran, dropping his bat neatly just off the base path, and when he saw the exultation of his first base coach, Jim Busby, he knew for sure that the long chase was over.

The exultation of Science is still evident in modern society and it has been fuelled by the condemnation of the validity of miracles and Christian teaching especially by philosophers such as David Hume, who argued: «No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle...», and Richard Dawkins, the atheist evolutionist who promulgates the belief that: «The true utility function of life, that which is being maximised in the natural world, is DNA survival.»

Only he who apprehends with the first Christians the horror of death, who takes death seriously as death, can comprehend the Easter exultation of the primitive Christian community and understand that the whole thinking of the New Testament is governed by belief in the Resurrection.

It is the anguish of waiting, the agony of struggle; it is killing and being killed, maiming and being maimed; it is leave - taking, absence, fear and hope, joy and despair, devotion and hatred, escape and death; it is the exultation of victory; it is the bitterness of defeat; it is the incalculable aggregate of all the blood, sweat, and tears the war is costing the thousands who fight and the millions who suffer the war's desolation.

It was that time when the popular favor and the exultation of the masses hailed you as the righteous one, do you remember that?»

Plunging downward from the exultation of a decisive electoral victory, it was a sickening, devastating night, and morning, and night again.

Not exact matches

It is the great festival of victory and exultation, though Lent has always been kept rigorously by Lutherans, and St. John's is no exception.

The Peasant of the Garonne is a cry: a cry of exultation and hope based on what the Second Vatican Council seemed to promise; and a cry of impassioned warning against those who, in the name of aggiornamento, denied transcendence, and who took and are still taking the Church to a place locked within this world.

Within this frame, these nameless Hebrew poets succeeded in giving supreme expression to the basic rhythms of inner life: bleak despair in the face of accumulated disaster, stubborn hope, gratitude, exultation, rhapsodic celebration of the splendors of creation, contentment in the quiet joys of the good life.

For what I experienced was neither pride in my genes nor glory in my dog - handling (she had, after all, disobeyed by running and swimming away), but sheer exultation in the joy of being alive, in the thrill of water, and in affection for waggy dogs» tails.

What shall it profit him if he comes through the world under full sail aided by the favorable winds of popular exultation and admiration, if he runs aground upon eternity?

The universe is «accepted» by all these writers; but how devoid of passion or exultation the spirit of the Roman Emperor is!

How many times, in reading the liturgy for the Holy Communion, I have felt both exultation and despair at the moment of the Sanctus: «Therefore with Angels and Archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify Thy glorious Name; evermore praising Thee, and saying: Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Saboath...» Exalted because, in this language, this place and time and company of momentary lives are interpreted and blessed within the scope of an eternal action of God, released from the tyranny of death and what Dylan Thomas has so movingly alluded to when he laments that

But I felt only high exultation in my certainty of eternal life.

One minister wrote of his loneliness as a clergyman: «I have driven in the dark in my little silver Accord on more than one occasion, realizing that there is no one within 50 miles of where I live with whom I can share my deepest pain or joy, no place where I can experience the quiet exultation and peace of complete acceptance.»

In a series of eighteen scenes Heggie and McNally move us through self «doubt, exultation, prayer, vengeance, tragedy, self «discovery, repentance, and ultimately redemption.

When this happens... the doctrine of grace becomes a cry of exultation.

1Peter 4:12 - 17 Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, which comes upon you for your testing, as though some strange thing were happening to you; but to the degree that you share the sufferings of Christ, keep on rejoicing, so that also at the revelations of His glory you may rejoice with exultation.

On the surface, this text expresses exultation in God's salvation of David from the hands of the homicidal Saul.

If you were anyone other than my mother, you would have read it as a gloating exultation rather than a series of grievances.

The Olympics should be the acme of an athlete's career — the competition his greatest challenge, the victory his greatest moment of exultation — and yet repeatedly the most notable Olympians, the winners, found more consolation in the completion of the task than joy in the achievement.

There is genuine exultation, though, when C.J. Beathard throws the first of his two fourth - quarter touchdown passes.

He leaves behind as well a record of his anguish and exultations.

More Spielberg's self - mocking Catch Me If You Can than Julie Taymor's impressionistic Frida, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind examines the creation of a personal cult of personality on a public stage and its attendant guilt / exultation.

Chick depicts the company's meteoric rise in an opening credits sequence and we never get a sense of the exultation and crazy riches of the two brothers as the company begins nor of the heady flim - flam atmosphere of that mad, insane blip in American business history when a guy and a computer could sit in his basement and make millions.

Equally joyful abandon exists in 1994's US Go Home, while a highlight of her latest, Let the Sunshine In, sees Juliette Binoche, eyes closed in a nightclub, swaying to «At Last» by Etta James, her face glowing with private exultation.

When she falls apart, I fell with her, when she fought, I stood right there next to her, and when she found strength to persevere and inspire those who came into her circle, once again, as with every step of the journey, I felt compelled to join in with her exultations.

And times too, of exultation and delight punctuated by a Lab.

Focusing on the years 1934 to 1961 - from Hemingway's pinnacle as the reigning monarch of American letters until his suicide - Paul Hendrickson traces the writer's exultations and despair around the one constant in his life during this time: his beloved boat, Pilar.

Stuart Carey & Eddie Hall reference primal aspects & motivations of humankind from our darker moments to our joyful exultations.

Seeing them for the first time was a moment of exultation, and we high - fived in delight.

She completely loses her mind in a frenzy of exultation when given a sugar cookie, or weeps inconsolably when told she can't watch another ad for a Play - do play set posted on Youtube.

Her recurring imagery act as an alphabet, combined in order to evoke feelings of grief, love, sorrow, ecstasy, mourning and exultation.

Hubby's sense of inclusivity and exultation can be infectious.

The work was robust, decadent and sensual, the tumble of sweet - smelling, heaving forms suggesting Baroque representations of ecstasy and exultation.

The environment created by OSGEMEOS for the Lehmann Maupin space is a bona fide carnival of positive vibrations and exploding exultation.

The three large paintings dating from 1974 seem to constitute Still's counterpart to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony: dizzying in the tumultuous, diagonal movement of their gestural, but highly controlled shapes — in contrast to the solidity and verticality of the works immediately preceding; harboring both calm and conflict; achieving jubilant exultation.

CHICAGO — It was the morning after the presidential election, and Matthew Melmed, executive director of Zero to Three, a national organization devoted to early childhood education, could barely contain his exultation.

«Her screams, her struggles to evade the whip, the marks of the whip arising on her body, all give me a feeling of male power and exultation that swells my love and devotion towards my sweetheart a hundredfold and makes out love - life more intense and impulsive.