It may have been sudden joy that kept her silent.
The sudden joy drained from her face, to be replaced with a look of calculation.
With sudden, fierce joy, he pulled her into his arms.
She lifted her arms up to the warmth of the sun, filled with a sudden wild joy.
The way she said it filled me with sudden joy as a vision of our years ahead flashed across my mind.
For Richard, it is the sudden joy of scoring a goal with an abandoned football ball.
Yes, he thought, with sudden joy, I am coming home at last.
"It actually happened," she repeats, drunk with sudden joy and wonder.
Filled my head with sudden, inappropriate joy I made a mental note to find out who she was.
The young man flushed with sudden joy and pride.