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
Heard against this background, “Bolero,” written nine years later, seems to indicate that what is left from the 19th-century waltz is ravishment.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2018
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
I didn’t grow up looking for ravishment or rescue, either one.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
