raptness

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.”

As Ms. Ruff’s Berenice relates this, in a thrumming voice that turns everyday eroticism into something celestial, the theater is silent with the raptness that descends when we are afforded a blessed, 360-degree view of an opaque person’s inner life.

Ms. Sengbloh endows the description with a raptness that stops time, and an abject figure acquires majesty.

His raptness makes us want to hear through his ears.

The goal was raptness in a form she loves.