I vividly recall hearing stories, as a child, about
the sheer joy and happiness when the controls were lifted and kitchens could be filled with prewar staples and goodies, many of which not seen for many years.
It's rare that an author actually lets you know that they've added and changed material from the weekly magazine version, but Mashima is proud to point out that he was able to expand the celebration in Chapter 128, and rightly so — it really helps to show
the sheer joy and happiness that the town is seeing, as well as the somewhat melancholy departure of Laxus.
So, if you ever had that moment of just like pure bliss, where it's just like you're not thinking about anything, you just feel a true sense of like
sheer joy and happiness, and you know, sometimes that can mean the middle of a music festival, but sometimes it's just like you wake up in the morning and you're next to your dog, and you're just like yes, like this is life right now.
Not exact matches
To me that was a heartbreaking picture, of course, but it was also an image of something amazing
and glorious: the
sheer ecstasy of innocence, the
happiness of a child who can dance amid despair
and desolation because her
joy came with her into the world
and prompts her to dance as if she were in the midst of paradise.
So even the most beautiful
and lovable thing of all, a feminine youthfulness which is
sheer peace
and harmony
and joy, is nevertheless despair, is
happiness.
There is the
sheer giving
and ecstatic
happiness in being possessed by everlasting love,
and concomitantly with this
and fusing with it is the
joy of possessing God as He is by means of the beatific vision.36