rapture
Example Sentences
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“The idea of the rapture,” Ehrman writes, “has not been taken from the Bible; it has been read into the Bible.”
From Washington Post
He tried to keep it just subdued enough to offset his face, which could not contain rapture.
From Washington Post
Incomparable, that is, until 2007, when Michael Tilson Thomas matched his mentor on the rapture scale in a deeply probing performance of music seldom probed.
From Los Angeles Times
It’s hard to buck the critical tide here — Yuknavitch elicits rapture in many readers — but also hard to maintain a grip on characters so obviously laden, heavy with meaning greater than themselves.
From New York Times
Mark Twain, a visiting Yankee not quite at Victoria’s court, grasped something deeper about the rapture of the crowd.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
