All 5 Uses of
ecstasy
in
Catch-22
- He broke out the bottles of bourbon he had managed to buy on his four-day weekly circuits with the courier plane and laughed, sang, shuffled and shouted in a festival of inebriated ecstasy until he could no longer keep awake and receded peacefully into slumber.†
Chpt 6 *
- Officers' clubs everywhere pulsated with blurred but knowing accounts of lavish, hushed-up drinking and sex orgies there and of secret, intimate nights of ecstasy with the most beautiful, the most tantalizing, the most readily aroused and most easily satisfied Italian courtesans, film actresses, models and countesses.†
Chpt 21
- No such private nights of ecstasy or hushed-up drinking and sex orgies ever occurred.†
Chpt 21
- Her own body was such a familiar and unremarkable thing to her that she was puzzled by the convulsive ecstasy men could take from it, by the intense and amusing need they had merely to touch it, to reach out urgently and press it, squeeze it, pinch it, rub it.†
Chpt 30
- Nately was in ecstasy; she had never smiled at him before.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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(ecstasy as in: a state of ecstasy) a state of intense happiness