raptness

Example Sentences

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He quotes — as he will on several occasions always with the same, soft raptness — one of his favorite Shakespeare lines, from “Coriolanus”: “There is a world elsewhere.”

From New York Times • Sep. 18, 2019

Ms. Sengbloh endows the description with a raptness that stops time, and an abject figure acquires majesty.

From New York Times • Sep. 17, 2017

I think there's something about Zahi's raptness that we could learn a lot from.

From The Guardian • Dec. 16, 2012

Here, he creates a raptness on stage that makes still more unnerving the outbursts of anger from the nature-loving poet and his haunting by a doppelganger.

From The Guardian • Nov. 25, 2012

An expression came into her face which reminded me of him, an expression of grave exaltation and secular raptness.

From Captain Macedoine's Daughter by McFee, William