ravishment
Example Sentences
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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.
From The New Yorker
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.
From Project Gutenberg
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!
From Project Gutenberg
On the sensuous beauty of the world she spent the chaste ravishments of her virginal heart.
From Project Gutenberg
The ravishments which St. Theresa experienced she expressed in terms of abandoned precision.
From Project Gutenberg
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
