Word: exultancy
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...population, Estefan, 40, is more than that. She is the emotion-laden embodiment of the Cuban-American dream. Her family fled Castro's communist regime when she was just two years old, and today thousands of Cuban exiles celebrate her success as though it were their own. Gloria, they exult, is the "glory" of Cuba...
...FIRST ALL BUT UNFAILING rule of foreign books about Japan is that they exult in the perspective of a bewildered outsider, not quite sure whether to be excited or exasperated by the science-fictive surfaces of that alien world. The second is that they find a focus for their mingled fascination and frustration in an unfathomable Japanese love object. The gracious and redeeming delight of Audrey Hepburn's Neck (Pocket Books; 290 pages; $21), a first novel by Alan Brown, an American, is that it turns all the standard tropes--and expectations--on their head by presenting Japan from...
Until then, of course, the captains and the kings will exult. Said Turner, now the biggest individual shareholder in the world's largest media company: "You know, it's just a chance to see the world from a different place. Instead of from the basement, from the penthouse...
...unceasing rain of the year before; he and his wife Julie got by only because of a nursery operation that she had started in plastic greenhouses. But last week, as his trucks filled with corn and soybeans lumbered off to storage bins, Hurst could pause with Julie and exult, "I love the harvest season...
...paramilitary organizations have shown any willingness to hand over their weapons. On the Republican side, armed splinter groups like the Irish National Liberation Army have not even joined the truce. For the present, though, like survivors of a long, dark winter, the citizenry on both sides came out to exult in the new light, hesitantly unwinding their nerves and reflexes after 25 years...