Literary notes about Exuberance (AI summary)
In literature, exuberance is employed as a rich descriptor for life's overflowing vitality and creative energy. Authors use it to evoke both tangible and abstract manifestations of spirited animation—from the wild, unrestrained joy of divine laughter ([1]) and the spirited zest of youthful hearts ([2]), to metaphorical applications that capture the abundant, sometimes chaotic, force of human nature ([3], [4]). Its usage spans contexts where it characterizes not only physical expressions of joy and enthusiasm ([5], [6]) but also the vivacity and fertile imagination underlying artistic and intellectual endeavors ([7], [8]).
- The laughter of the gods is described by Homer as "the exuberance of their celestial joy after their daily banquet."
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin - In the exuberance of my joy, I asked him to lunch with me at the Holborn, and we started off together in a hansom.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle - XIII I have attempted to cut out a clear path through an ethical jungle overgrown with the exuberance of human life.
— from The Nature of Goodness by George Herbert Palmer - Much of what he then said may properly be credited to the impetuosity and exuberance of youth.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln - Bob, in his exuberance, slapped her on the back.
— from Polly's Senior Year at Boarding School by Dorothy Whitehill - Not succeeding in this, they kindled a large bonfire, and danced around it in the exuberance of their delight.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay - He said that his fault was to be fertile to exuberance.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The personal and romantic view of life has other roots besides wanton exuberance of imagination and perversity of heart.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James
