Word: exultant
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Over 100 supporters of Governor George Wallace (D-Ala.) gathered at his headquarters on State St. to exult at his strong showing in the Bay State, more than ten-percentage points more than he received in the 1972 primary...
...their relationship to the things and the people who tormented them. Chaplin was insouciantly defiant when pressed, Keaton manically inventive. Both were also incurable romantics. They were people of dimension, people with plans and aspirations and a wide range of feeling. One could identify with them, suffer and exult with them...
Beyond the archdemonic Hitlers, Updike points out, are the evils that persist in Everyman: "Is not destructiveness within us as a positive lust, an active hatred? Who does not exult in fires, collapses, the ruin and death of friends? What man can exempt from his purest sexual passion and most chivalrous love, the itch to defile...
...symbolic breaking loose, they foreswore make-up in revolt against the Look, and donned shapeless Indian prints that defied the Hollywood wasp-waisted ideal. They sat with legs widespread in mockery of Propriety and wore tattered jeans to taunt Ladylike Deportment. And they stopped shaving and stopped bathing to exult in the smells they trailed in the air. Rebellion against the Look was merely the easiest way to protest the Role, since the Look, be it slickfigured or heavy-breasted, was primed for seduction, for capitalizing on your assigned status as a sex object. It was this objecthood, having...
...adrenaline freaks who love the challenge of a fire and take pride in their intricate special skills. They exult in the "victory" when a blaze is beaten down. In the busy companies, Smith explains, the morale is tremendous. The men scramble for the front position on the hose; they take a military pride in their battle scars; and in the heat of a fire fight they would die to save a victim from the flames - and in fact they often do. In Smith's well-supported opinion, they are indeed "New York's Bravest...