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
Her lyric vocal writing contends with harsh reality, but her style is never far from profound rapture.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2025
But by then, the damage was done and Italy were not to be denied a first home win over Wales for 18 years to scenes of rapture in the Roman rain.
From BBC • Feb. 8, 2025
That sense of inward concentration, of a rapture “completely under the influence of his own thoughts,” gives something of the idea of how a speaker might inhabit, or be inhabited by, his speech.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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