rapture
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Here beauty is celebrated with voluptuous rapture, setting the mood for “Oh, Yemanja,” a mythic, watery mother’s prayer from Tania León’s opera “Scourge of Hyacinths.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2026
Let’s replace Broadway with a bunch of rinks—and ask Stanley Cup hockey teams to send us all into the riveted rapture.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 13, 2025
Goggins’ gritty and/or Southern-fried shows are not the kind that inspire Emmy voters’ rapture.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2025
The newly undead Mississippi folks dance along, but it's different from Sammie's juke joint rapture — unnatural and jerky, even as they keep the rhythm.
From Salon • May 2, 2025
“We’re looking—” the small blond woman began, but then she saw past Isidore; her face dissolved in rapture and she whisked past him, calling, “Pris! How are you?”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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