Word: triumphant
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...Pulitzer punctuates what has already proven a triumphant year for the composer. April marks a month-long celebration at the Lincoln Center in honor of his works, including his 1991 opera, The Death of Klinghoffer, which will be made into a movie for the BBC this month...
...Wakowitz, Esq. represents the diamond-and-cocaine-encrusted rap group The Majesticons, “Lords of the Ching-Ching.” In real life, he’s known as Bronx-based MC and producer Mike Ladd, the man behind Beauty Party, the second triumphant episode in the ongoing battle between the Majesticons and their arch-nemeses the Infesticons. Beauty Party is a complete success, parodying the misplaced values of mainstream hip-hop and R&B, while reveling in the guilty pleasures of club-bumpin’ bangers, booty, Burberry and blow...
...doctor who had patients waiting, and her granddaughter, due for class at nursing school, begged off. So Margaret Sanger, who had made a lifelong crusade of birth control after seeing her mother die at age 50, worn out by 18 pregnancies and 11 children, celebrated her victory alone--but triumphant. --By Cathy Booth Thomas
According to Orcutt, American artists before Bellows overwhelmingly portrayed soldiers as heroic and battle scenes as triumphant...
...Franklin was the intellectual equal of Watson and Crick, but she lacked the advantage of a sympathetic collaborator, and she simply wasn't the prizewinning type. She was a bloodhound, cautious and implacable, whereas Crick and Watson were greyhounds who lived for the sprint. When they made their triumphant announcement, Franklin was gracious in defeat, accepting her peripheral role with an equanimity that surprised her colleagues. When she encountered Watson and Crick later in life, they met as friends. She probably never knew what a central part her X rays had played in their discovery...