Definition of ebullience
: the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts or feelings : exuberance
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Rumi's masterpiece, the Mathnawi, is a fantastical, oceanic mishmash of folktales, philosophical speculation and lyric ebullience in which the worldly and the otherworldly, the secular and the sacred, blend constantly.
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And while the staging has a few minor hang-ups — at one point a scoreboard reads 12-11 while someone is saying the tally is actually 4-3 — the show’s sheer ebullience is hard to beat.
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Campbell would have wanted to hear the hits, Grande said the teen’s mom told her — and so the singer designed Sunday’s concert to honor a pop fan’s thirst for ebullience.
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Courtly grace rubbed elbows with earthy peasant humor, and the concluding presto was alive with the ebullience Haydn dished out like no other composer.
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But Buckley’s ebullience, decency and enthusiasm for learning propelled him up from sectarianism.
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But Buckley’s ebullience, decency and enthusiasm for learning propelled him up from sectarianism.
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Compared with his clear ebullience and declarations of personal friendship with leaders in the Middle East, Trump appeared standoffish and solitarily glum among his NATO colleagues.
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In other works, Feinstein tempers ebullience with encroaching darkness.
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First Known Use of ebullience
1749
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