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A long life tells in every line of her ardent but unecstatic, tight-lipped face, framed by a shroud-like veil.

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2016

It seemed almost to become natural and unecstatic.

From The Grim Smile of the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold

To this extent the disciples of art for art's sake are right, that the poet should not give us unecstatic political, philosophical or moral lessons in metre.

From The Literature of Ecstasy by Mordell, Albert

It is in aiding us to eliminate much trivial, flimsy, unecstatic free verse and regular verse from the sphere of poetry.

From The Literature of Ecstasy by Mordell, Albert