ravishment

There are moments when these ravishments come close to the touristic, though this is attenuated by the filmmakers’ unexpected use of the boxy Academy ratio.

There is a white image magic that feeds humanism and infuses art with healthy Dionysian passion, and there is a black image magic that causes us to surrender reason to ravishments of our own fixations.

Close to my heart I felt the presence of the long-sought, now-discovered glory; and its ravishments thrilled into me with all their power.

What though our friend Dana shall twang a guitar And murmur a passionate strain— Oh, fairer by far Than these ravishments are The castles abounding in Spain!

On the sensuous beauty of the world she spent the chaste ravishments of her virginal heart.