The sport of horse racing and breeding is one of great agony and ecstasy.
Pain and ecstasy are both signs of the underlying health--or sickness--of the economy.
Conversely, and most importantly, when life unfolds in the manner in which archetypes suggest they should there is often euphoria and ecstasy.
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Latest figures show 293 people died in the UK in 2011 from misuse of benzodiazepines, more than double the 125 killed by cocaine and ecstasy combined.
Ah well, says the next reasonable person, you are surely not going to compare non-payment of a parking fine with alleged consumption of cocaine and ecstasy, are you?
Not surprisingly, there is euphoria and ecstasy.
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Whatever the size of the audience, being a stand-up comedian, alone on the stage in front of an audience that may or may not be friendly, with only a microphone to hold on to, is agony if you flop, and ecstasy if it likes you.
It is a fundamental tenet to many religions that evil, while mysterious, may clear the way for good, that the soul is perfected only in battle, that pain and ecstasy are somehow twins, that only a soul--or a century--that has truly suffered can truly realize joy.
His understanding of the agony and the ecstasy of manic depression displays a level of empathy for the illness never yet found in a novel, a function perhaps of his friendship with fellow-author David Foster Wallace, a real-life depressive who committed suicide in 2008.
The delicacy of the hands and mesmerising quickness of the feet, the overwrought facial expressions and rapid shifts in tempo produce a performance in which the distance between ecstasy and agony is barely discernible.
Her ecstasy and agony are rooted in her romance with the city.
After more than a decade of jamming, improvising and experimenting with sound, Benevento has discovered his own way into music by combining the thrust of rock, the questing of jazz and the experimental ecstasy of jam.
The colors appear to glow from within, and this sense of ecstasy is embodied above all in Gabriel himself.
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Cloaked in Mazarine Blue, this Phantom has engraved door-sill plates, and the Spirit of Ecstasy emblem, which continues to celebrate its 100th anniversary.
Here are a few things I know little about: gambling, horses, the manly bonds of career drinkers, the lonely hotel rooms of businessmen, and the sly mathematical ecstasy of statistics.
During the Revolution, as was the custom, someone smashed off his nose with a hammer, but he is oblivious, his whole body and beard twisting in ecstasy at what he has just heard.
The clip shows Yorke in a bowler hat, a white shirt, and black pants, dancing in a focussed but intent ecstasy that recalls both Ian Curtis, from Joy Division, and Prince.
He said panic attacks, anxiety and paranoia were among problems caused by ecstasy.
He knelt onto the famous Highbury turf and kissed it and a minute later Highbury was in ecstasy as news filtered through of West Ham's winner at Upton Park.
It must have been a major disappointment to the FBI's New York field office when, in February 2000, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents arrested Gravano and others in connection with a massive ecstasy ring in Arizona.
But two goals in stoppage time finally sank their hopes and sent the capacity crowd in Casablanca into ecstasy.
According to a 2012 UNODC report, use among 15-64-year-olds in Iceland of cocaine was 0.9%, of ecstasy 0.5%, and of amphetamines 0.7%.
Before the arrival of humans, the Hosts would always tell the truth, and the sound of a lie fills them with ecstasy.
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And as if this was not enough to ignite ecstasy around Stamford Bridge, the roars were deafening as news of Birmingham City's late equaliser against Arsenal filtered through.
Greek police say the raider, or raiders, also made off with Piet Mondrian's "Landscape with a mill, " and a pen-and-ink sketch of San Diego de Alcala in ecstasy by Renaissance artist Guglielmo Caccia.
Yet here was a girl willing to take him in her arms and kindly ignore the humbling sight of him blundering his way toward ecstasy.
Past the fast food joints and crowds queuing rather optimistically for a natural high from the herbal ecstasy tents, Aimee Mann held all in thrall on the main stage with her reflective songs, some from the acclaimed film Magnolia, including the Oscar-nominated Save Me.
U.K. club king Calvin Harris trades Rihanna's usual somber synths for disco ecstasy on ''We Found Love, '' a song that builds and builds to a climax that's so arena-ready it practically begs for someone to blow a vuvuzela.
Users of the iPhone, iPad, Droid and other stereo Bluetooth enabled devices can enjoy their music anywhere for up to seven hours of rich audio ecstasy with the included rechargeable Lithium-ion battery.
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