Word: exult
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Movie watching makes children of us all. The infant it locates within every viewer is sometimes aggressive (when action films delight in breaking their expensive toys), often rude (when comedies exult in wisecracks and flatulence) and, once in a while, awestruck by the splendor of the imagination. Films that aim honorably at evoking childlike wonder are so rare, so vulnerable, that one wants to clap three times and shout, as kids do seeing Peter Pan, "I do believe in fairies! I do, I do!"--until the drab reality of a botched movie shakes an audience to its senses...
...wounds remain fresh for these devotees. The hatred of the Yankees is palpable. One of these fans had proclaimed New York’s opening day loss in Japan as good as Christmas in an email to his friends. After I pointed out that Sox fans exult in next to meaningless Yankee losses while the New Yorkers couldn’t care less about Boston’s, he offered this explanation...
...become Dan Rather's boss." Conservatives still argue--garnering huge and sympathetic audiences in the process--that the traditional media giants lean left. But these days, that familiar spiel is done more for rhetorical effect. Conservatives know their power in talk radio, cable television and publishing, and they exult in it. Democratic Senator Byron L. Dorgan of North Dakota recently commissioned a study of a week's worth of programming by the nation's 44 top-rated radio stations and found they broadcast 312 hours of conservative talk programming, compared with 5 hours of liberal shows. And with conservative authors...
...When you are coming out of a tough economy and off a market bottom, the cyclical recovery in earnings tends to be strongest with small caps," says Jack Laporte, president of the T. Rowe Price New Horizons fund. Some of his favorite holdings are retailers (Ann Taylor), business services (Exult), software (Jack Henry) and semiconductors (Maxim Integrated Products...
...that first warm day—who knows when it shall arrive—we cannot help but exult and perspire. The despicable primitivism of our immanent natures emerges and takes control of us, and we become delightful to behold. Thus reduced, we look about and with new eyes perceive professors, secretaries, groundskeepers and even administrators glowing from their own inescapable vitality. This visceral humanity made manifest is hot. Can you feel...