Literary notes about ebullient (AI summary)
In literature, "ebullient" is employed to convey an energetic burst or bubbling intensity that can be both literal and metaphorical. At times, it portrays a mystical or commanding force, as when a character wields "ebullient energies" reminiscent of ancient kings or priests [1]. In other instances, the word captures the buoyant, almost effervescent quality of human behavior—infusing personal interactions or moods with a vivid, contagious joy [2, 3, 4]. It can also describe a physical state, evoking images of boiling substances or seething motion that mirror the character's inner vitality, as seen when a scene is alive with a palpable, surging excitement [5]. Overall, "ebullient" functions as a versatile adjective, coloring texts with a sense of uncontainable life force and spirited exuberance [6, 7].
- They are what kings and priests were of old, they who have the power of bridling ebullient energies and turning them to use.
— from Émile Verhaeren by Stefan Zweig - In such an ebullient atmosphere of festivity--as I just now described it--you can do an astonishing lot with the people here.
— from Pillars of Society by Henrik Ibsen - The always-ebullient Joe did not seem to be affected.
— from The Runaway Asteroid by Michael D. Cooper - he laughed, deep in the throat of his ebullient joy.
— from The Cottage of Delight: A Novel by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben - boiling , a. seething , ebullient, effervescent, simmering.
— from Putnam's Word Book A Practical Aid in Expressing Ideas Through the Use of an Exact and Varied Vocabulary by Louis A. (Louis Andrew) Flemming - It was like an explosion, an exultation of human voice unchained, ebullient with the love of life, savage in its good-humor.
— from The Flaming Forest by James Oliver Curwood - It is accordingly ebullient, energetic, optimistic.
— from The Empire of the East by H. B. (Helen Barrett) Montgomery
