ravishment
Example Sentences
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The orchestra produces a ravishment of sound both immaterial and downright tactile.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2025
Kam, tell me not about your surprise disappointments of 2018 but about your moments of unexpected ravishment.
From Slate ● Jan. 4, 2019
Or rather, you set yourself the challenge of making ugliness beautiful, of finding ravishment in a bleak dystopian panorama strewn with toxic waste sites, abandoned factories and towering heaps of rubbish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2018
Mr. Gray is “a sensualist,” Manohla Dargis wrote in her review in April, “and in ‘The Lost City of Z’ he turns the Amazon into a ravishment for the senses.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2017
I didn’t grow up looking for ravishment or rescue, either one.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
