Example sentences for: ecstasy

How can you use “ecstasy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • They were built at the very beginning of the 16th century by Sultan al-Ghuri, the last Mameluke ruler, and his mausoleum at the heart of the development is now a cultural center hosting regular performances of the Whirling Dervishes (who achieve religious ecstasy by circling around in continuous motion).

  • Also, an Economist obsession: The magazine advises Britain to legalize drugs, at least marijuana and ecstasy (MDMA).

  • What I meant in saying that techno has cultural-political significance is that it's the medium of a counterculture; techno fans are looking for ecstasy (I mean the state of mind, not the drug, though that too), for a kind of erotic communalism that's basically missing from the larger culture right now ... but where the '60s counterculture was anti-technological (even though rock 'n' roll was totally dependent on technology), this one resonates with the techno-utopianism of computer freaks (I'm not saying the techno audience is computer freaks or overlaps with them, I really have no idea, just that there's a common impulse there).

  • But Phaëthon's fall, like the cascading forms in Michelangelo's Sistine Last Judgment , has its own headlong ecstasy.

  • In these paintings the feelings--mirth, ecstasy, confusion, awe, whatever--seem intense and distinct.


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