elation

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• Newspaper articles in the digital archive of the Influenza Encyclopedia, produced by the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan, reported elation about the reopening of theaters.

• I’m not talking about the elation of watching a child hook and fight their first fish only for the moment to end in tears after the fish gets away.

• As I reread them, I remembered the elation, the fear, the disbelief, the hope that had accompanied each letter.

• Back then, his walk was interrupted by “some strange feeling of elation,” as he told the Associated Press yesterday, about the moment he had his first glimmers of insight into the equations that would eventually make him famous.

• My discomfort gave way to elation as I was briefly transported back to those vanished years of racing on forest trails in early September.

• Elation turned to puzzlement as six infected nuns who received infusions all died.

• But that sense of elation would last only a few short hours.

• The elation is absurd, and therefore all the more endearing.

• It is like a habit-forming drug that, in victory, saps your elation and, in defeat, deepens your despair.

• Receiving a coffee-related gift triggers a Pavlovian response – elation, anticipation, a faux caffeine rush.

• As he followed him on uptown, down his side-street, Lamb had a curious sense of .