ravishment
Example Sentences
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Kam, tell me not about your surprise disappointments of 2018 but about your moments of unexpected ravishment.
From Slate ● Jan. 4, 2019
Or rather, you set yourself the challenge of making ugliness beautiful, of finding ravishment in a bleak dystopian panorama strewn with toxic waste sites, abandoned factories and towering heaps of rubbish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2018
The writer-director James Gray, adapting David Grann’s 2009 book, “opens this world gloriously,” Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times, and “turns the Amazon into a ravishment for the senses.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2017
Some of that ravishment arrives courtesy of the movie’s setting, a stunning pan-Asian metropolis that makes boldly inventive use of the Hong Kong skyline, its tightly stacked buildings tricked out with enormous holographic billboards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2017
I didn’t grow up looking for ravishment or rescue, either one.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
