It was an ecstatic experience.

And he says by describing it as an ecstatic state.

Team GB's Nathan Bailey, the only male entrant in the men's trampoline on Saturday, was ecstatic.

And it describes the same effortless, spontaneous feeling that you get when you enter into this ecstatic state.

I literally have the freedom to move in 360 degrees of space and an ecstatic experience of joy and freedom.

And when that happens, the feeling is ecstatic and we reach for metaphors of up and down to explain these feelings.

And I know this footage isn't going to look like anything to you we had a crummy camera at the time but I was ecstatic.

And so when 425 million people finally won the right to choose their own governments, I was ecstatic, but I was also a touch worried about some of the nastier things lurking behind the wall.

Lost in the angst over inequality is the critical role that central banks have played in exacerbating the problem. Yes, asset markets were initially ecstatic over the Fed s decision this month not to scale back QE.

Sorceress, tranced, ecstatic, stock still on the sidewalk ragged coat hanging agape, passersby flowing around her, her mouth torn suddenly open as though in a scream, silently though, as though only in her brain or breast had it erupted.

High school science teacher Tyler DeWitt was ecstatic about a lesson plan on bacteria and devastated when his students hated it. The problem was the textbook it was impossible to understand. He delivers a rousing call for science teachers to ditch the jargon and extreme precision, and instead make science sing through stories and demonstrations.

Popular support for the creation of a pan Asian security structure can be found not only in the election outcomes in Japan and South Korea, but also in the ecstatic crowds that greeted Obama in Myanmar (Burma) during his recent tour. Ordinary Burmese well understand that their country s democratic transition is the direct result of its recoil from China s excessive demands on its natural resources.

A dictator s death throes are always a form of theater, featuring ecstatic masses, would be successors fighting for political survival, and, behind the scenes, the dictator s coterie locked in efforts to extend the life of their patriarch until they can secure their privileges. Franco s son in law, who was also the family doctor, kept the dying despot on life support machines for more than a month.

That lesson was reinforced by the experience of countless debt crises in peripheral countries, the most destructive of which hit Latin America exactly 30 years ago, after ecstatic borrowing fueled economic booms. Sometimes these were simply consumption booms whether for households or for military outlays and presidential palaces and sometimes they were investment booms, though much of the investment had been misallocated as a result of political priorities.