In a 1987 interview with The New Yorker magazine Powell said " I had never heard anything as ecstatic as this music ", prompting a shift from classical to jazz piano.

Although the Hebrew Bible describes this event as an ecstatic vision rather than a historical occurrence, later interpreters speculated as to the fate of these men, both before and after their revitalization.

At the end of each period the Pythia would be like a runner after a race or a dancer after an ecstatic dance, which may have had a physical effect on the health of the Pythia.

Less than two generations after Ovid's publication, Acts 14: 11-12 relates the ecstatic reception given to Paul of Tarsus and Barnabas: " The crowds shouted ' The gods have come down to us in human form!

Liber asserted plebeian rights to ecstatic release, self-expression and free speech ; he was, after all, Liber Pater, the Free Father – libertas personified and father of plebeian wisdoms and plebeian augury.

) It opened to universally ecstatic reviews and shortly after transferred to the West End's Savoy Theatre in The Strand, where it ran until 1987 with five successive casts.

Hence the goal of the ethical endeavor is a religious one: the ecstatic contemplation of God and the disembodiment of souls after death.

Also in contrast to most progressive house, which tends to have a progression over the course of the mix ending in an ecstatic release of energy at the end, tech-house often aims at achieving an even “ groove .” Although there might be dips and peaks in the energy level — any interesting mix will have them, after all — they will be more on the restrained side.

Likewise, when informed that the situation is not so bad after all, Ivan will similarly react in an overly ecstatic manner, much to the annoyance of his guests.

Vince comes to visit the hospital, ecstatic, but, soon after arriving, he leaves to fill out paperwork leaving Nina and George alone with Molly.

Laura gorges on the delicious fruit in a sort of bacchic frenzy, then once she is finished, after picking up one of the seeds, returns home in an ecstatic trance.

Initially crying after seeing the remains of his friends, he later becomes ecstatic upon realizing he is the only one who made it.

Cathy is ecstatic after her first date with Jamie.

The film was released several weeks after Hellinger's death, and in his review for the New York Times, Bosley Crowther called it " a virtual Hellinger column on film " and " his appropriate valedictory " and observed, " The late Mark Hellinger's personal romance with the City of New York was one of the most ecstatic love affairs of the modern day — at least, to his host of friends and readers who are skeptics regarding l ' amour.

Shah also told Graves that he was " intensely preoccupied at the moment with the carrying forward of ecstatic and intuitive knowledge.

Although Shaun is initially ecstatic, he then remembers the things that both Ashley and Professor Skinner had told him.

He told reporters, " I can't say I'm ecstatic because the damage has already been done ".

Scooby Snacks seem to come in many different flavours ( although all boxes are identical ), and in one of the later episodes Recipe for Disaster Scooby and Shaggy are ecstatic when Shaggy wins a tour of the Scooby Snacks factory where they attempt to sample the batter pre-cooking before being shooed off by an irate worker who thinks they are trying to steal the recipe.

Tatchell called on Respect to expel Yosef but the party responded with the following statement: " Adam Yosef has the right to voice his own opinions in his own column – they range from an ecstatic review of Birmingham ’ s gay pride to venting his thoughts about Peter Tatchell.

In as much as patients can throw themselves into the nervous sleep, and manifest all the usual phenomena of Mesmerism, through their own unaided efforts, as I have so repeatedly proved by causing them to maintain a steady fixed gaze at any point, concentrating their whole mental energies on the idea of the object looked at ; or that the same may arise by the patient looking at the point of his own finger, or as the Magi of Persia and Yogi of India have practised for the last 2, 400 years, for religious purposes, throwing themselves into their ecstatic trances by each maintaining a steady fixed gaze at the tip of his own nose ; it is obvious that there is no need for an exoteric influence to produce the phenomena of Mesmerism.

In what is considered the most compelling entry in this book, ` Attar relates the story of the execution of Hallaj, the mystic who had uttered the words " I am the Truth " in a state of ecstatic contemplation.

He wrote in the introduction to his play The Resurrection, " I began to imagine 1904, as always at my left side just out of the range of sight, a brazen winged beast which I associated with laughing, ecstatic destruction ", noting that the beast was " Afterwards described in my poem ' The Second Coming ".

Recovered, and fell-walking in the Lake District, " on Easter morning on Kidsty Pike, between Hawes Water and Hayes Water, a blinding spring sun on snowy ridge beyond ridge, from Fairfield to Blucathra, brought a moment of such ecstatic intoxication that, were I a mystic, I should have called it a mystical experience.

With a marathon personal best time of 3: 08: 25, McAndrew was aiming for her first sub-three-hour marathon in the 2012 London Marathon: " 2: 59: 59 I'd be ecstatic, but if I could get anything under 3: 08 I've still got a personal best, which is still amazing, but it's just that kind of magic number of three hours ...

Over the song ’ s brisk house beats, Björk stammers as she struggles to express feelings of excitement so intense she seems on the brink of leaping out of her skin: “ I ’ m driving my car too fast with ecstatic music on / I ’ m daring people to jump off roofs with me .” In the end, she and Mr. Hooper resort to studio wizardry to gesture at inexpressible feelings, sampling one syllable and turning it into a stuttering vocal tic ".

James Agate was ecstatic ..." Her leading role in the 1947 film While I Live gained her a great deal of acclaim.

I remember watching Joe King dive from the balcony and crowd surf back to the stage on an undulating sea of ecstatic fans.

He is also the Liberator ( Eleutherios ), whose wine, music and ecstatic dance frees his followers from self-conscious fear and care, and subverts the oppressive restraints of the powerful.

Although the ultimate attainment for this type of mysticism is union with God, it is not necessarily visionary, nor does it hope only for ecstatic experiences ; instead, mystical life is successful if it is imbued with charity.

You ’ d be bored to tears in heaven, if you ’ re not ecstatic about God now !!

Karyai had a famous temple dedicated to the goddess Artemis in her aspect of Artemis Karyatis: " As Karyatis she rejoiced in the dances of the nut-tree village of Karyai, those Karyatides, who in their ecstatic round-dance carried on their heads baskets of live reeds, as if they were dancing plants " ( Kerenyi 1980 p 149 ).

He refers to the opinion of various scholars that specially favored persons could attain, by means of castigation and the reciting of psalms, to an ecstatic state in which they might behold the heavenly halls (" hekalot ") as vividly as if they really had entered them.

The names of the first three Æsir in Norse mythology, Vili, Vé and Odin all refer to spiritual or mental state, vili to conscious will or desire, vé to the sacred or numinous and óðr to the mantic or ecstatic.

Remington was ecstatic about his new line of work, and though critical response was mixed, some labelling it negatively as “ illustrated sculpture ”, it was a successful first effort earning him $ 6, 000 over three years.

Denys the Carthusian was said to have reached the Unitive stage, being privileged to divine ecstatic experiences lasting hours at a time. While still a novice he had ecstasies which lasted two or three hours, and later on they lasted sometimes seven hours and more.

Captain Ultra's first appearance is as an applicant to the supervillain team called the Frightful Four ; he is at first enthusiastically accepted by the other three villains, ecstatic at his large array of powers.

< blockquote class =" toccolours " style =" text-align: left ; width: 27 %; float: right ; margin: 10px 0 5px 10px ; padding: 10px ; display: table ;">" Astral Weeks is about the power of the human voice – ecstatic agony, agonising ecstacy.

Here we must reach into the Sufi as much as scholarly part of the Farangi Mahall world to unveil their vision of a perfect and well-formed life, the example of correct Islamic behavior which they wished to set before the faithful. 15 Associated with this question is that of changes in right conduct, the movement of religious change which Barbra Metcalf has discerned especially amongst Muslims of the Delhi world, as processes of religious revival and reform began to draw Muslims away from the particularistic and ecstatic practices of the shrines to the more sober forms of religious expression commanded by scripture.

He became possessed of a spirit, and suddenly began to rave in a kind of ecstatic trance, and to babble in a jargon, prophesying in a manner contrary to the custom of the Church which had been handed down by tradition from the earliest times.

In the middle of the song, however, Charles indicated that the Raelettes should repeat what he was doing, and the song transformed into a call and response between Charles, the Raelettes, and the horn section in the orchestra as they called out to each other in ecstatic shouts and moans and blasts from the horns.

As Joachim Fest notes, Goebbels seemed to take a grim pleasure in the destruction of Germany ’ s cities by the Allied bombing offensive: " It was, as one of his colleagues confirmed, almost a happy day for him when famous buildings were destroyed, because at such time he put into his speeches that ecstatic hatred which aroused the fanaticism of the tiring workers and spurred them to fresh efforts.

The first members of the group were known as “ Shaking Quakers ” because of the ecstatic nature of their worship services.

Though offered a fraction of his former salary to co-star in a war drama, The Young Lions ( 1957 ), he was ecstatic to receive the part because it would be a dramatic showcase with the two most intriguing young actors of the period and he could learn from Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift.

His synagogue grew, according to members, not only because of Lerner's willingness to take the social justice message of the prophets seriously, but also because the actual experience of being involved in prayer, meditation, singing and dancing in the synagogue became an ecstatic experience of transcendence for many of those who attended.

Emperor Wu was ecstatic in having a child at his advanced age ( 62 ), and because Consort Zhao purportedly had a pregnancy that lasted 14 months long — the same length as the mythical Emperor Yao -- he named Consort Zhao's palace gate " Gate of Yao's Mother.

In the prophetic vision, on the other hand, He appears in heaven, which is in keeping with the nature of the case, because the Sinaitic revelation was meant for a whole people, on the part of which an ecstatic condition can not be thought of.

Before they depart by train from New York City, local teenage girls are ecstatic to meet Conrad, but one young girl is sad because she thinks that by the time Conrad gets out of the army, she'll be too old for him.

Kazaam is then last seen walking off being grilled by his girlfriend because he doesn't have a job, while at the same time, ecstatic over his newfound freedom.

He is probably the only character in the series who is genuinely cruel and occasionally turns up at the office, and when he does, the boss David Brent is ecstatic because, in his opinion, " Finchy " is a wonderfully charismatic wag who is constantly coming up with terribly witty remarks and rapid-fire repartee.

Emperor Wu was ecstatic in having a child at his advanced age ( 62 ), and because Consort Zhao purportedly had a pregnancy that lasted 14 months long — the same length as the mythical Emperor Yao -- he named Consort Zhao's palace gate " Gate of Yao's Mother.

The player tells Iggy that he " already did " because of Green Pipes Point, expecting an ecstatic response from Iggy.