But instead of bowing cowed and dejected like the rest of the prisoners, he was standing erect, his face turned upward, wreathed in an expression of ecstatic revelation.

The novella-length "Masterji" paints its wealthy, bored pilgrims in overbroad strokes, but it also describes moments of ecstatic revelation in startlingly immediate language.

Sometimes it has manifested itself in fresh and ecstatic revelations, as with the Mormons and the Adventists.

His art strives for ecstatic revelation on the level of visions and rises to the heights of his great verse, sometimes.

A touching and beautiful show if you have a taste for Blake's art, which strives for ecstatic revelation on the level of his famous visions and rises to the heights of his verse, sometimes.

Their appearances are brief, ecstatic revelations, fortuitous glimpses, sudden soundings.

To be present at the moment of awakening, to share the ecstatic revelation when the voyager discovers the wonder and awe of the divine life-process, far outstrips earthly game ambitions.

During the first week of October, he wrote a fifty-page document entitled Universistic Aphorisms, which represented "an almost ecstatic revelation of truth and the light to come, which bore the mark of nothing less than a prophet."

Soutine is commonly thought of as an Expressionist, but his painting seems less emotionally assertive than intoxicated, flooded by an ecstatic - or terrified - revelation of existential flux and flow.

To be present at the moment of awakening, to share the ecstatic revelation when the voyager discovers the wonder and awe of the divine life-process, is for many the most gratifying part to play in the evolutionary drama.