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
The goal was raptness in a form she loves.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2015
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
Mary saw and noted how the raptness of his face gave way to its usual feebleness as he roused himself.
From The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories by Perceval Gibbon
