The sheer elation of being in their company.

If the company's spirit was robust before performing "Swan Lake," what has happened in the slow march toward the Metropolitan Opera House is sheer elation.

With a feeling of sheer elation he dropped back to the first level and leaped again.

But when he stepped up on to the conductor's rostrum for the opening production of a new season, he was - every time - filled with a sense of sheer elation.

Of course, the sheer elation of Ayame almost always blotted out the pain-except now.

Her laughter was sheer elation that all of that was nearly over.

Yet Zap Mama hasn't lost its ability to generate sheer elation, as if Ms. Daulne had the telephone numbers for parties in both hemispheres.

I met him returning from one of the Penn ponds with the largest pike of the year swinging by his side and a look of sheer elation on his face.

That stolen heart, those exclamation points; are they on loan from the 50's, or here from sheer elation?

They love his voice, his cornet, and the sheer elation one finds in both.