elation

Elation turned to puzzlement as six infected nuns who received infusions all died.

But that sense of elation would last only a few short hours.

The elation is absurd, and therefore all the more endearing.

It is like a habit-forming drug that, in victory, saps your elation and, in defeat, deepens your despair.

Receiving a coffee-related gift triggers a Pavlovian response – elation, anticipation, a faux caffeine rush.

As he followed him on uptown, down his side-street, Lamb had a curious sense of elation.

Perhaps, as men get older, the effervescent elation of youth leaves them; but they are none the less happy.

There was no elation, but on the contrary he seemed weighed down with a sense of the responsibility resting on him.

She obeyed and he left them, the feeling of victory and elation coming to him in full then.

But there was no feeling of victory, none of the elation he had thought he would have.