There was patent gloating about the German defeat everywhere, only thinly disguised behind strained expressions of solidarity.

Even the Communists embraced the system with great delight.

In China, the widespread euphoria about the economy is reason for concern.

My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,

My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,

They, too, would like life, pragmatism, creativity, and even joy to gain the upper hand.

Now imagine the jubilation if they were saved!

Prague was 1989 s happiest revolution, a delirium of good feelings.

There are times when being proven right brings no pleasure.

You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

Congratulations, not hand wringing, should be the order of the day.

LONDON Europe s reaction to the historic revolutions in North Africa has vacillated between exhilaration and fear.

KYIV From snowy Kyiv, I have watched the successful revolutions in Cairo and Tunis with joy and admiration.

Indeed, the successes of Team GB produced an upsurge of patriotic rejoicing akin to victory in war.

The euphoria that has, for over a week, greeted Mahmoud Abbas's election as President of the Palestinian Authority was perhaps justified.

But the initial euphoria that accompanied the so called Orange Revolution quickly faded, and Ukraine is still dealing with the political and economic fallout.

The government had erected the TV screens outside the Kremlin in order to ensure patriotic exultation of the victory that they assumed was coming.

But, while the last decade has given much reason for cheer, there are areas in which we cannot claim such success.

The street euphoria that greeted Bachelet s victory felt very much like the emotions that gripped Santiago back in 1970, when Allende was elected.

It is no source of joy to us that most African countries enjoy relatively stable political conditions (A 60 182, para. 4) under democratic Governments.

While these past weeks have been a time of national exhilaration in this country, it would be tragic if you thought this meant your job was done.

It can be cause only for celebration that the world s largest developing economies are regularly talking to each other and establishing common initiatives.

Yet institutional change, despite the euphoria that greeted the latest EU summit, will take time, for it requires careful structuring and broader public support.

How could ordinary American soldiers, whether they were following orders or acting on their own, appear so untroubled, even exhilarated by their brutish conduct?

Chinese analysts gleefully point out that, after having sung the liberalize, privatize, and let the markets decide song for so long, the United States and Britain took the lead in bailing out their financial giants at the first sign of trouble.

Although some China bashers in the West and nationalists in China may be rejoicing, the potential deterioration of China s international relations serves nobody s interest and threatens to undermine global peace and security.

Yes, asset markets were initially ecstatic over the Fed s decision this month not to scale back QE. The thrill, however, was lost on Main Street.

Despite the euphoria around shale gas indeed, despite weak global growth commodity prices have risen by as much as 150 in the aftermath of the financial crisis.

In these troubled times, the world perhaps needs a bit of cheer, and what better than the bright, sparkling colors of Holi, the festival of Spring, to renew our optimism, hopes and joy.

MADRID July will enter Spanish history as having started on a tremendous high, spurred by Spain s recent triumph in the 2012 Euro Soccer Championship.

The first days of joy on regaining freedom gave way to 45 years of the subjugation of those States through an imposed regime of violence and lawlessness, of trampling human dignity and of total subordination to the rule of Stalin's Soviet Union.

But financial markets reacted calmly to the news that, for the first time, even depositors in a bank in the European Union will lose part of their money (and this was noted with glee in Berlin and elsewhere in northern Europe).

But, by 1960, euphoria had given way to rancor among those whom he had used to regain office but who now saw him as a traitor to be neutralized along with the regime he had brought into being.

One of Simonyan s earliest election day tweets simply declared that democracy had died.

It is not entirely clear why the alarms are sounding just now, after five years of general expansion in markets since they hit bottom in early 2009. Why aren t people blithely expecting more years of expansion?

To persist in the belief that reformists and hardliners are just masks of the same enemy, and to take pleasure in the victory of the latter, is not merely cynical, but is an added insult to a people that has already been humiliated enough.

In the immediate aftermath of the October War of 1973, the Arab world rejoiced because the myth of Israeli invincibility had been shattered by Egypt s crossing of the Suez Canal and the Syrian offensive that swept across the Golan Heights.

In China, the widespread euphoria about the economy is reason for concern. Some universal human weaknesses can result in irrational behavior during an economic boom.

When asked why they failed to include this facility in their declaration of nuclear programs, North Korean officials responded cheerfully and absurdly that it had been built from scratch only after the collapse of the nuclear negotiations in 2008.

One of the true joys of my life in politics was the opportunity to have a quiet lunch with Thatcher in London some years ago, and express my gratitude to her for recognizing our chance for freedom and seizing the diplomatic initiative to help realize it.