All 3 Uses of
ecstatic
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- At least once a month he drew his favorite repeating shotgun, his "pump gun," from its wrapper of greased canton flannel; he oiled the trigger, and spent silent ecstatic moments aiming at the ceiling.†
Chpt 16 *ecstatic = feeling intense happiness and excitement
- Uncle Miles's most ecstatic trick was to make figures not on paper but right on a new pine board, with the broadest softest pencil in the world.†
Chpt 26
- She had no ecstatic indulgence in the sense of guilt which is, to the women of Main Street, the surest escape from blank tediousness.†
Chpt 31
Definition:
feeling intense happiness and excitement (as when in a state of ecstasy)