ravishment

Example Sentences

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At the end, the audiences from both parts returned to the bleaches for a bleak look at that ravishment.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2020

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

From Slate • Jan. 4, 2019

Shooting in 35-millimeter black-and-white film, Mr. Garrel fills the wide screen with a ravishment of tones, from inkiest black to crystalline white and every imaginable gray in between.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 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