raptness
Example Sentences
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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.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2019
The goal was raptness in a form she loves.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2015
I think there's something about Zahi's raptness that we could learn a lot from.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 16, 2012
Here, he creates a raptness on stage that makes still more unnerving the outbursts of anger from the nature-loving poet and his haunting by a doppelganger.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 25, 2012
She was regarding me with a sort of raptness.
From Captain Macedoine's Daughter by William McFee
