Literary notes about Exhilarating (AI summary)
Writers employ "exhilarating" as a vivid descriptor to convey both physical vitality and emotional uplift. It often enlivens nature scenes, as when pristine air or bright sunlight transforms ordinary moments into experiences of transcendent freedom ([1], [2], [3]). In other instances, it intensifies the pulse of dynamic events, capturing the rush of motion or the charged energy of human activity ([4], [5], [6]). Occasionally, the term even introduces a note of irony by highlighting the contrast between expected sobriety and sudden bursts of liveliness ([7], [8]). Across varied narratives, "exhilarating" enriches descriptions by merging sensory delight with a broader sense of renewal and spirited adventure ([9], [10]).
- The exhilarating influence of a clear spring morning in the forest, is impossible to resist.
— from The Lost Trail by Edward Sylvester Ellis - How sweet was the sunlight, how exhilarating the sense of freedom!
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner - We drank in the exhilarating air, the natural wine of the morning.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - The show of the men crowding around is quite exhilarating; I like to stand and look.
— from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman - The men scampered in insane fever of haste, racing as if to achieve a sudden success before an exhilarating fluid should leave them.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane - The discovery gave her an immediate illusion of activity: it was exhilarating to think that she had actually a reason for hurrying home.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton - (There is nothing exhilarating about a funeral excursion without a corpse.)
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain - Only—you know, doctors are the only men in the world who know just what women have to put up with, and the knowledge isn't exactly exhilarating.
— from The Bars of Iron by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell - This is always exhilarating and sublime.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau - Thus he found himself the next morning on the deck of the Carnatic, and eagerly inhaling the exhilarating sea-breeze.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
