raptness

Example Sentences

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

From New York Times • Sep. 17, 2017

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 McFee, William