Sentences with phrase «in ecstatic»

Instead, people (especially women) in ecstatic relationships get themselves into a frame of mind that focuses on how much fun sex is for them.

1 Laura Hoptman, «THIS LANGUAGE IS ECSTATIC BECAUSE» in Ecstatic Alphabets (New York: Museum of Modern Art

That particular genre is in many respects the polar opposite of uptight perfection, with its canvases rumpled and littered by everything from cigarette butts to charcoal to sand — all of which would be anathema to the clean lens and the pristine print — yet here Labatte slyly rearticulates the painterly gestures in an ecstatic series of photographic prints titled «Spotting,» 2014.

These shots of Vicious, culled by Prince from mass media sources, show the musician in various moments of punk rock ecstasy, as well as in states of visible deterioration — in one he is seen in the ecstatic thralls of an on - stage performance, while in another he appears catatonic, lying on the ground in a presumably drug - induced stupor with microphone held limply in one hand.

A blonde ingenue type, played by the actress Elizabeth Banks, watches a crowd thoughtfully through a window and then, in an ecstatic moment, joins it - only to end up in a Day of the Locust - style mob.

McGinley's elaborate and rigorous process of photo - making creates moments of breathtaking beauty: naked feral kids poised in ecstatic abandon.

An intense — it is sometimes tempting to say, a molten — red comes to dominate his images, suggesting that he paints in the ecstatic hope of overcoming the separation between inner and outer, self and world.

Richter's large - scale paintings question the context of history painting in a society whose historiographic idea of progress has been significantly altered, hence Richter's lone, heroic figures depicted singularly or in an ecstatic mass.

Although it pays due attention to the early imagined landscapes (traumatic, compressed worlds of pulsating vegetation and fearful beasts, products of an artist who punned his name with Kraken) the true weight of the exhibition rests in the larger, later canvases — in the ecstatic pantheism of Landscape with the Elements (1973 — 5), or the tessellated calm of Landscape, Hydra (1963 — 7).

In ecstatic farewell to my years of corporate catering, we would never serve anything but a martini in a martini glass.

Tom eventually comes to his senses, and he and Space Girl are allowed to ascend into the heavens in an ecstatic death scene that releases the film's melancholic tension of unfulfilled lust.

Our culture usually talks about love in ecstatic, abstract metaphors.

As he orgiastically smashes and pulverizes parts of the skeleton on the ground, the soundtrack bursts forth in an ecstatic, jubilant climax.

(5) The baby also has been producing oxytocin during labor, perhaps even initiating labor; (6) so, in the minutes after birth, both mother and baby are bathed in an ecstatic cocktail of hormones.

Olson disagrees, countering that photographs show that the pose is «exactly what the males do when they are in their ecstatic mating dance.»

Perhaps the most heavily significant moment of the Manchester United Fulham game came when United went ahead at 2 - 1 and David Moyes in his ecstatic relief went dancing on to the field in his joy.

Liverpool helped us to start the day in ecstatic fashion, falling two goals behind before looking like they were going to ruin my lunch!

Think of it as bringing two tropical foods together in an ecstatic union....

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.

Simon «saw» — God revealed it to him in an ecstatic vision — that the Father had taken his prophet into the eschatological future and had appointed him the Son of Man.

Who could not but be grasped by the descriptions which the Acts of John — the most beautiful and profound of those mysterious writings — gives to us of the last gathering of the Lord with his disciples, culminating in the account of the magnificent hymn which those intone who are united in the ecstatic cult dance.

There are several ways out of this conundrum, and some of them may well involve new compromises which seem unlikely in this ecstatic moment, but which may come about, all the same.

The reasoning associated with those events can only experience and seek; for nothing that occurs in our ecstatic moments can be manipulated or controlled.

Rather, it is a momentary and sporadic «possession» by unseen powers, induced by primitive group dynamics, and expressed in ecstatic behavior.

Furthermore, he saw the essential and characteristic fruit of the presence of the Holy Spirit not in ecstatic phenomena but in a transformation of the quality of the reflective consciousness itself.

The type of mystical communion which breaks connections with life and centers in ecstatic enjoyment of God may well be viewed with suspicion.

Individuals forge this new identity by inventing and participating in ecstatic political rituals that aspire to combine perfect equality with perfect freedom.

Some early Christians, in their enthusiasm for the new life, became more interested in ecstatic experiences than in the will of God for them.

On the 96th plate of Jerusalem, there is an illustration of the Creator and Jerusalem drawing together in an ecstatic embrace.

The prophet receives the actual dabar, the real Word of Yahweh, in ecstatic concentration.

Not exact matches

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.

When serial entrepreneur and XPrize founder Peter Diamandis talks about what's in store for tomorrow's leaders, the conversation verges on ecstatic.

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.

No offence to Snookie, by I for one am ecstatic for this rapid change in culture.

So when Gail's daughter Honor, the youngest of four children, walked down the aisle for her wedding, in Kelowna, in late February — just after shareholders finally approved the privatization — Gail was ecstatic.

Like many battles in modern politics, there are benefits to having a very angry minority in your corner as opposed to a majority that is happy, but not ecstatic, with the status quo.

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.»

The franchisees were ecstatic with the turnaround and began reinvesting in the brand, many remodeling their restaurants and building new ones around the world.

Like the ecstatic blossoms on dried patches; every spring brings in something equally exciting for the fashion forward; the spring summer collection.

Fluor had apprehensions about working with the Philadelphia Building Trades, largely due to the propaganda campaign waged by nonunion contractors... (Fluor says in the letter) the company is ecstatic over our performance (after) more than five million man - hours.

Pure Barre Birmingham, Alabama — Riverchase opened in October 2013 and I was ecstatic to hear of its arrival.

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

Producers, known in Canada as Albertans, are ecstatic.

Investors, who have dealt with some presidential tweet — induced turbulence in recent weeks, were ecstatic: Amazon's already insanely valuable stock soared to new heights.

But looking back, I am absolutely ecstatic that I decided to start my own website in 2009 because my online income has now far surpassed my passive income that has taken over 15 years to build!

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.

We transcend ordinary life, as it were, in moments of imaginative, ecstatic insight, sometimes brought on by the power of nature, and sometimes by the power of love, or even by the power of what is ugly or evil.

Obviously, if it is something real (that is, it actually does what they think it does) those in whose behalf it is done will be ecstatic.

There are many songs written and played by people against whom I have the most fundamental and passionate disagreements in the moral and intellectual realms (which are the most important ones), yet hearing their songs can evoke ecstatic feelings that are very much like feelings of worship and longing for God.

It reminds the believer that the vision of God unfolds amidst the splendor of holiness while also pointing toward the way in which the final movement to ecstatic wonder is always grace - filled and joy - laden.