as in joys
a state of overwhelming usually pleasurable emotion
actors are typically in ecstasy upon winning an Oscar
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One of the few joys of social media is watching someone experience something that brings them pure joy for the first time.
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Watching a great lineage build is one of the sport’s great joys — one that is deeply, and vicariously, appreciated inside the world of horse racing.
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When even her attempts at enjoying life’s simpler pleasures — like some chicken parm and coconut cream pie at home with a glass of wine — go tragically awry, Patricia’s disappointment and exasperation are both hilarious and painfully palpable.
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World Cup fans enamored with simple pleasures are racking up big numbers online, fast food proving a big hit—one post praising the addictive delights of ranch dressing was viewed more than ten million times on X (Twitter).
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Just four minutes later, Baggio doubled the Italians’ lead with a swift half-volley, sending the capacity crowd inside of New Jersey’s Giants Stadium into raptures.
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Recorded on five reel-to-reel decks, the composer’s 1975 piece blends everyday and exotic sounds—human breath, cheeping frogs, bubbling geysers—into a passionate defense of the raptures of listening.
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The rhapsodies about Willow, paired with the silence surrounding the difficult dogs, contribute to a sense of make-believe and avoidance that pervade Biden’s memoir.
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We’re surrounded by sensory delights, and a new book argues that being more attuned to them could be a balm for digital exhaustion.
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The psychologists, economists, and happiness advocates have saddled the rest of us with an impoverished and incomplete picture of gratification and its distinctive delights.
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The queen of pop swapped her Confessions II-era shiny golden doll-like curls for a high-to-the-heavens mullet.
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Oh, heavens to Betsy, not the chest hair!
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Its graphic clarity teems with ornament and glitter, visual intoxications that signal delusions and snares.
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“Ecstasies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ecstasies. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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