ravishing

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Our critic called it “instructive, ravishing and thorough.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025

“Sèvres Extraordinaire!”—which also includes portrait busts, plaques, medallions, platters and breakfast, coffee and tea services—is instructive, ravishing and thorough.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 1, 2025

This summer he was a luminary of the prestigious Salzburg Festival and Saturday conducted the world premiere of his ravishing Horn Concerto at the Lucerne Festival that was broadcast on a Swiss radio station.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2025

In two sold-out nights of meaty, early-20th-century orchestral works at the Aldeburgh Festival in June, the Sinfonia produced two dazzlingly colorful performances, underpinned by a ravishing, at times eccentrically exuberant string sound.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2023

For country people, who only knew the dismantled tilting ground of Sir Ector’s castle, the scene which met their eyes was ravishing.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White