ravishment
Example Sentences
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The classical Indian dance form Odissi is a ravishment of curves.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2021
Kam, tell me not about your surprise disappointments of 2018 but about your moments of unexpected ravishment.
From Slate ● Jan. 4, 2019
Or rather, you set yourself the challenge of making ugliness beautiful, of finding ravishment in a bleak dystopian panorama strewn with toxic waste sites, abandoned factories and towering heaps of rubbish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2018
The room is a ravishment of red brocade, its gleaming surfaces bathed in dim candlelight and slowly lengthening shadows that the cinematographer Jonathan Ricquebourg captures in exquisitely shot digital images.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2017
I didn’t grow up looking for ravishment or rescue, either one.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
