euphoria

Noun

Meaning

a feeling of great (usually exaggerated) elation

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Examples

Every accommodation of Muslim demands leads to a sense of euphoria and a conviction that Allah is on their side. They see every act of appeasement as an invitation to make fresh demands. Ayaan Hirsi Ali

There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor. John Cheever

Now we are forced to recognize our inhumanity Our reason coexists with our insanity And though we choose between reality and madness It's either sadness or euphoria. Billy Joel

I like living, breathing better than working... my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral, it's a sort of constant euphoria. Marcel Duchamp

I didn't have to scramble up and down the ladder from despair to euphoria anymore, trying to convince myself that life was either painful and terrible or joyous and wonderful. The simple truth was that life was both. p 214. Melody Beattie

I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense. Günter Grass

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