Having fans vote for each team's 30th player online, as baseball did this year, won't quite propel fan interest to ecstatic heights.
Yet everything he cares about manages to find its way into his poems; they are capacious, hospitable and often rise to quietly ecstatic heights.
Wayne Shorter is the Wagner of jazz and performed hHis pithy motifs with ecstatic height and energy at the Barbican in London.
But while the album doesn't reach the ecstatic heights of his Homefront concert, it's still the work of a poised artist with an impressive template of ideas at his command.
Although they look graceful and easily rising to ecstatic heights through singing, an agony of suspense is also visible in their faces.
But what is astonishing is how effortlessly and inevitably all the parts can mesh into moments of stunning beauty or rise to ecstatic heights.
She could not say when she experienced for the first time the ecstatic heights which she had been told were part of the act.
Yet his poems remain "capacious, hospitable and often rise to quietly ecstatic heights."
He in turn influenced Coltrane, Mr. Jones's ferocious rhythms goading Coltrane to ecstatic heights in performance and on recordings like "A Love Supreme" and "Ascension."
Just as we were about to reach ecstatic heights.