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

He sank to raptness as of yore,    And opening New Year's Day Wove it by rote as theretofore, And went on working evermore    In his unweeting way.

From Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses by Hardy, Thomas