ravishment
Example Sentences
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At the end, the audiences from both parts returned to the bleaches for a bleak look at that ravishment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2020
Kam, tell me not about your surprise disappointments of 2018 but about your moments of unexpected ravishment.
From Slate ● Jan. 4, 2019
Heard against this background, “Bolero,” written nine years later, seems to indicate that what is left from the 19th-century waltz is ravishment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 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
