Yesterday he did not immediately retreat to his yacht on the East River for a public party or a private celebratory moment.
It was not a celebratory moment for Venus Williams, just the end to an awkward day.
"We should get out of the subway business," Mayor Riordan said in a less celebratory moment earlier this week.
Boyish exuberance was suddenly used to argue cultural differences in celebratory moments.
He put his face right up to the fungus, then pulled back for a celebratory moment.
In a reckless celebratory moment, she drinks with friends and drives home intoxicated.
What should have been a celebratory moment, however, was instead an occasion for grumbling, mostly directed at President Bush.
Yet those brief celebratory moments have been muffled by a painfully deliberate, measured style.
We've always been a bit paranoid, but did we have celebratory moments?
But bristling, too, not so far underneath, at even this celebratory moment.