Example sentences for: ecstasy

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  • 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).

  • The Majic Bus is full of passages like this: "How could I be a great bop wanderer, a mystic in search of ecstasy, a hobo scribbler of haiku and jazz poems, somehow discovering, in Kerouacian terms, how to 'dig' life in the divine world to the fullest?"

  • Lovesick Teen: A "photo analysis" page (part of a site called Cary's Crap) examines shots from the CNN tape of Lewinsky and Clinton's postelection hug, noting the "ecstasy look on Monica's face" as she and the president embrace--"Here Monica is obviously giving the President the 'Fuck Me' stare.

  • Leonardo was a man who, according to one biographer, "was plunged into a kind of ecstasy by devising never-ending systems of cogwheels and screws"--rather like Buckminster Fuller deliriously multiplying geodesics.

  • They were both plunged into a crazed maelstrom of feverish ecstasy, and afterward he asked her a special favor.


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