What little bit survives a couple of hundred years of human ravishment, that is! ❋ Unknown (2009)
Mack Mitchell's "ravishment" of teenage Tibetan refugees eh Desmond? ❋ Steve Caldwell (2009)
I behold the light with a kind of ravishment, and all the rest of the day I am happy. ❋ William Cleaver Wilkinson (N/A)
Through the heads about him be could see her standing a little in advance of the others, her head turned to one side, really in the natural attitude of violin-playing, but, as it seemed to him, in a kind of ravishment of listening -- cheeks flushed, eyes shining, and the right arm and high-curved wrist managing the bow with a grace born of knowledge and fine training. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)
Through the heads about him, he could see her standing a little in advance of the others, her head turned to one side, really in the natural attitude of violin-playing, but, as it seemed to him, in a kind of ravishment of listening -- cheeks flushed, eyes shining, and the right arm and high-curved wrist managing the bow with a grace born of knowledge and fine training. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)
Theirs is a "small" life, but one that expands the intimacy of this real and world-wide ravishment. ❋ Lauren Gunderson (2010)
I hate myself for the generosity I offer my despicable parents by being grateful for the traits that kept me from complete ravishment. ❋ Emily House (2012)
They fill him with an attentive ravishment, a marveling, it's pleasing and rejuvenating, a steady, pure current that he has never experienced until now with anyone. . . ❋ Sam Sacks (2011)
This visual ravishment -- which is the principal experience of the movie and which is, too, enhanced by the surprisingly subtle use of 3-D technology (there are gratifyingly few shots of objects projecting into the audience's field; you just feel that you're sharing the same plane as the creatures in the movie) -- is part of a strategy intended to make us admire the Na'vi. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The conservative also mocks the ravishment of traditional institutions by liberal elites, and perhaps more than anything, he scorns ideology—the rage to pursue an abstract ideal at the expense of the heat generated by human contact, the insistence upon knowing what is best for people, the inability to leave them alone. ❋ Unknown (2010)
" I did the Met operas because I wanted to see what it ' s like, and full-out singing is like a ravishment, " she told me. ❋ Joel Henning (2010)
What—did she think Mr. Peacock Loxsleigh was racing after on horseback, intent on dragging her from the coach for ravishment? ❋ George R. R. Martin (2010)
