ravishment

Example Sentences

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The orchestra produces a ravishment of sound both immaterial and downright tactile.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2025

Kam, tell me not about your surprise disappointments of 2018 but about your moments of unexpected ravishment.

From Slate • Jan. 4, 2019

Filled with lovely natural landscapes that have been meticulously framed and photographed, “Legend of the Mountain” is often a visual ravishment.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 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