Raptness

It is the thing he loves best to do -- constructive play -- giving play to his powers, bringing him to that raptness which is full inner breathing and timeless .... ❋ Will Levington Comfort (1905)

Jamie stood to one side a little, observing me and taking pleasure in my raptness. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His unexpected, mythic journey has turned the past twenty-two months into a national raptness. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Just look at Bliss' face while he's performing--there's a kind of radiance and raptness shining forth, a transfiguration, like that indescribable expression on Tiger Woods' face as he swept the 2001 Masters, stroke after stroke; the club, ball, and indeed the course itself were an extension of his body. ❋ Unknown (2006)

She was listening to the player with the raptness of a painted saint: her whole face listened, the tightened lips, the open nostrils, the wide, vigilant eyes. ❋ Unknown (2003)

I had thought the silence, the raptness, the quality of still, centered beauty was the effect of the klieg, but it wasn't. ❋ Willis, Connie (1994)

The boy watched, his initial doubt replaced with plain delight, then by raptness, then by a dawning mute blankness. ❋ King, Stephen, 1947- (1982)

There is a misty broodiness in his eyes which leaves them indescribably lovely to me as I watch him in his moments of raptness. ❋ Arthur Stringer (1912)

He has that raptor raptness, as much feline and serpentine, and I saw him gulp down a very large fly, lick his scaly little chops and sit all attention for the next chump. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He was beaming, regarding the sky with a raptness, a concentrated attention that reminded me of the total-immersion baptism I’d witnessed on the beach a week earlier. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The little black eyes were sparkling almost, and Mr. Campion, observing a certain raptness in Charlie Luke’s dark face, felt deeply relieved. ❋ Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 (1949)

It may be foolish, but these convictions are borne in upon me; I cannot help them! "cried Elsie, clasping her hands and opening her blue eyes to the fullest capacity, as she turned a gaze of mysterious raptness upon the group by the fireplace. ❋ George De Horne Vaizey (1887)

"[oooo] dude [im] so [totally] rapt" ❋ Tara (2005)