ravishing
Example Sentences
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Three years ago, the first sequel, “Avatar: The Way of Water,” was even more visually ravishing to regard, albeit thin in its storytelling.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025
It emerged at the same time as Fauvism in painting and lasted a year longer than Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, which dazzled audiences with ravishing, often exotic visions, sets and costumes ablaze in jewel tones.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
This summer he was a luminary of the prestigious Salzburg Festival and Saturday conducted the world premiere of his ravishing Horn Concerto at the Lucerne Festival that was broadcast on a Swiss radio station.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2025
Poser and John Adams’s costumes are ratty but ravishing, and Trey Lindsay’s special visual effects are puke-inducingly effective.
From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2024
It was a deep and ravishing landscape, and a daring and magnificent dream.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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