How To Use Rapture In A Sentence
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With a stage presence as big as her amazing costumes, her ad-libs and one-liners had the audience in raptures.
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The rapture effected by an aesthetic of the sublime is often more persuasive than any rational argument in its direct exploitation and manipulation of the audience's sense of actualities, possibilities, ethical duties and emotional affinities/antipathies.
On the Sublime
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Every one of them was involved in the build up to the goal which sent the reinvigorated fans into rapture.
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LAHAYE: Well, first of all, the reason rapture doesn't occur is because rapture comes from a Latin word in the fourth century, Jerome when he translated it.
CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Is the Apocalypse Coming? - June 19, 2000
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We have made certain that the reason of the splined spindle rapture is fatigue failure, its crack initiation lies in the minimal knuckle curvature radius surface region of the spline dedendum bottom.
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Defy the tempest & the storm deride is not in the original nor is it good. ποθος [19] is hardly fierce desire — & all such expressions of ram-cat raptures are bad. by the by she a dark lanthern might have deprived us of this poem. your storm is very good — zounds I sweat at the bare idea of the
Letter 138
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Kabir is that rare thing: a skeptical, disillusioned poet who nevertheless speaks in a voice of rapture and entrancement.
When Mysticism Came Down to Earth
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Quite a few of them would even stub out their cigarettes so enraptured, and intimidated, would they be by the blizzard of technical virtuosity that we, today, take for granted.
Debra Levine: Ballets Russes Updated: Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Turns 15
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Painters and sculptors who have seen her graceful performances are said to be simply enraptured with the perfection of her harmony of motion.
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And for rapture the sea was disparted, and onward the car-steeds flew.
IX. On Reading the Bible (II)
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What joy, what rapture, what glory to see him again!
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It also gets a really first-rate, unshowy production from Rapture.
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Thus, the two sides to Neptune are rapture or despair, delirious happiness versus pain and confusion.
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If they fail to enthrall and enrapture the audience, The King of Marvin Gardens ends up a very slow, very confusing film.
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Estrin's novel, titled The Lamentations of Julius Marantz (Unbridled Books, 2007), twists the rapture into a comic conspiracy of the right wing US government and the Sierra Club (among others) designed to rid the government of its leftist and Islamic enemies, end the leak in the ozone, and consolidate the government's right wing political base.
Marc Estrin Takes on the Rapture in The Lamentations of Julius Marantz
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The young man did not analyze the process of his captivation and enrapturement, for love to him was a mystery and could not be analyzed.
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For him, aesthetic rapture has had to replace religious rapture, and he can see that has its drawbacks.
Times, Sunday Times
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This was the first trial of our _sliding-gunter_ mainsail upon our singularly-constructed boat; and Bob and I were thrown into perfect raptures at the truly marvellous speed with which it propelled the craft along.
For Treasure Bound
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I wouldn't have been able to look away if terrorists were bombarding the room and announcing the end of the world, I was that enraptured.
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But it's not just the music that had the audience in raptures - it's the sheer exuberance of their stage performance.
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By presenting this sexuality/intellect as a burning illumination with both destructive potential and the capacity to enrapture and inspire, she revalues masculinist views of women's powers and passions.
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Best-known as the coauthor of the best-sellingLeft Behind pulp novel series, which readies the average American for the “rapture” and then for Armageddon, he spoke of Iraq as “a focal point of end-time events.”
'God Is Not Great'
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But the harrowing psychological investigation he embarks upon is told seemingly without effort, through words that intoxicate, scenes that enrapture, and ideas that ensnare.
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The patients, every one of them as though they were in a conspiracy, first belaud her for their miraculous cure, go into raptures over her medical skill, and abuse allopath doctors, then when she is flushed with excitement, begin holding forth on their needs.
The Schoolmaster
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They capture the gestures of the human body in all its pity and rapture, pain and pleasure.
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Perhaps what enraptures the reader about this realm is the music captured in his lines.
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An omnivorous troubadour, he roves from Manchester libraries to Colombian villages to salvage musical traditions – with recordings that move from Berber beats to the raptures of a raga, from the thrilling stillness of an Armenian lament to the sprightliness of an Elizabethan galliard.
In praise of … Jordi Savall | Editorial
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I don't hold out much hope for a dialogue with people who go in wholeheartedly for the rapture stories.
November 2004
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A lady went into raptures about the cheeseboard, and the complexity of the flavour of the mature cheddar.
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A little while later, Katrina arrived and the crowd went into raptures.
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He listened to the music with an expression of pure rapture on his face.
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The audience was enraptured by the young soloist's performance.
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The murderous ballet of the fight scenes, the blistering beauty of the cast, the optic nerve-sizzling colors - Zhang's art-house chopsocky flick verged on visual rapture.
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It disturbed me in my comfort spots, comforted me in my disturbed spots, and, as an erstwhile writer of fiction, I was simultaneously enraptured by her facility with words and timing; and nearly unconsolable and jealous and angry with myself for not working harder at it than I do.
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In her youth Queen Victoria listened with rapture to the impressive and glorious music of the great oratorios rendered in the Minster.
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Christians by and large aren't being attacked because Catholics believe in the doctrine of transubstantiation or because some evangelicals believe in the Rapture.
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The film was shown to gasps of rapture at the Democratic Convention.
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Rathdowney / Errill shot their eleventh wide before two quick long range efforts from Liam Tynan had the large crowd in raptures ten minutes into the half.
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And here was me, utterly enraptured.
ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?: A Life Through the Movies
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It's a body of work that engages the mind and enraptures the eye.
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The home crowd were in raptures, cries of ‘Ole Ole’ echoing around the stadium as their players lined up to pepper the Thistle goal.
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/Then over the surges he drave: leapt sporting before the God/Sea-beasts that uprose all round from the depths, for their king they knew,/And for rapture the sea was disparted, and onward the car-steeds flew.
On the Sublime
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In news stories on the Left Behind juggernaut, she has been quoted condemning the ethical implications of the beam-me-up aspect of Rapture theory, which she says invites a selfish nonconcern for the world.
Philocrites: Weekend religion round-up.
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Normally, a 13 point victory over the old enemy would have Mayo people in raptures, but when the final whistle went in Garrymore, their was a mild air of disappointment among the home fans.
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She was enraptured by the sight of two young men sitting in half barrels trying to sink one another whilst staying afloat in a freshwater pond.
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Her innocence exchang'd for guilty state; Whatever you write, in every golden line Sublimity and elegance combine; Thy nervous phrase impresses every soul, While harmony gives rapture to the whole. '
Life Of Johnson
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Even in terms of only modified rapture, however, Sebok's musicianship could be judged as beyond repute.
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After tea, we were entertained with a sonata on the harpsichord by lady Bullford, who sung and played to admiration; but Sir Thomas seemed to be a little asinine in the article of ears, though he affected to be in raptures, and begged his wife to favour us with an arietta of her own composing. —
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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Obviously there are very few people out there who want to read a story based on the Rapture doctrine, but who are OK with it being from a neopagan point of view!
Money and the Writer with Autism or A.S.
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I was fascinated by roller coasters even then so after a couple of rides on it with my Dad my rapture just multiplied.
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I can't move, I'm so enraptured by the way the last luminous rays of light dance over his glowing skin.
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In this painting, joy, rapture, release, and escape are all terms that become important, even if their value is always of the verge of becoming equivocal.
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The playwright is clearly striving for Dennis Potter style moments of rapture; sadly he achieves only a bizarre and unintentional effect of Pinteresque non sequitur.
Critique From HereNow
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He now no longer thought his cousin without them, but he thought she knew how to control them; in fact, they had grown to love each other with that certain kind of cousinly affection which one often sees, and which is very true and lifelong, but has not the rapture, the intensity, nor the anguish, which belong to really falling in love.
Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days
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Rapture's ballroom in happier days by Craig Mullins.
Rapture's heyday; Big Daddy desktop wallpapers
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Inventiveness, bite and enthusiasm keep it ahead of the pack and the intuitive Glass epitomizes those qualities, sending staff into raptures on a weekly basis with news of his latest audacious scoops at editorial meetings.
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You know, reverend, we're so excited about the Rapture.
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It is reverently displayed and enraptures the museum's Russian visitors.
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There would still be something left to live for, and who could tell whether that something might not be infinitely grander and nobler and more satisfying than even the rapture of flying ten miles an hour on his wheel, or chevying a flock of agitated sheep from one pasture to another?
Austin and His Friends
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And although one would be amazed at the prodigious child who could follow to the letter its snaky progress, it captures brilliantly that moment when adults enrapture children by behaving like children themselves.
Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie - review
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Evangelicalism is pushing for more war, in order that the Rapture, Armageddon and the Second Coming should occur.
Think Progress » Palin: Obama could win reelection if he ‘played the war card’ and declared ‘war on Iran.’
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If you think that demonic powers are present at the moment, just wait until the saints have been raptured away and Satan and his armies have taken full control of the earth.
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In this painting, joy, rapture, release, and escape are all terms that become important, even if their value is always of the verge of becoming equivocal.
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Or dost thou, the habitant of some bright star, where frailty such as ours is yet unknown, lend to lovers a rapture unalloyed by passion's grosser sense; as, symphonious with the tremulous zephyr, chastened vows of constancy are there exchanged?
A Love Story
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Subjectively, this manifests itself in the perception that the "feelings" elicited by art and music are in fact the ACTUAL feelings the artist felt, somehow, dizzyingly 'captured' by the work, immortalized, held in 'static communion' by the canvas, or musical recording, or camera... and now able to enrapture and enchant us indefinitely.
Jason Silva: On Creativity, Marijuana and "a Butterfly Effect in Thought"
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He depicted a version of his scarred but curiously often blissful family life: nine siblings (three of whom died in infancy), a drained and loving mother, and a tortured, violent-tempered father who died when Davies was 6; his burgeoning homosexuality and struggle with his Catholic faith; the solace and rapture that the cinema bestowed on him.
Intimate History
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On top of that, some believe that they will be raptured to safety in heaven, while others believe that they will be raptured to a place of safety on earth.
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Never before had she known such rapture.
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Nor was he enraptured by "the small change of Oxford evenings", and he was startled by the erratic inebriety of such celebrated Oxonians as Richard Cobb, although he shared Cobb's disdain for the uncritical Francophilia of so many of their colleagues.
Tony Judt obituary
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In the late '70s, anticipation would have had us in near rapture waiting for another Annie Hall or Manhattan, but alas we have entered a new century, and cynicism is the order of the day.
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Once in Neverland, the surrounding computer-generated scenery continues to enrapture, surrounding both the audience and the 23 living actors.
Peter, Wendy and Spectacle
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Critics of the rapture doctrine are quick to point out that the word rapture does not appear in the Bible.
Can America Survive?
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Where was the old careless rapture, the twinkle, the fire?
Times, Sunday Times
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Music can impart in us a feeling of melancholy and sorrow, rapture and euphoria.
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They were enraptured to meet the great singer.
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While he hasn't put a title to his collection, one cannot miss the sense of rapture and enchantment that the paintings seem to convey.
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Some depictions of heaven are strongly theocentric, portraying the blessed as caught up in an endless rapture of adoration; others are sociable and anthropocentric.
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The alcohol and the gyrating male bodies onstage combine to bring the women to a state of frenzied rapture.
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The young man did not analyze the process of his captivation and enrapturement, for love to him was a mystery and could.
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The frontal lobe is the seat of concentration and attention; the limbic system is where powerful feelings, including rapture, are processed.
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I greet those with modified rapture.
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Edinburgh's food lovers are in raptures over Crolla's new project - and rightly so
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For him, aesthetic rapture has had to replace religious rapture, and he can see that has its drawbacks.
Times, Sunday Times
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Holding within their billowed masses the healing punishments of the rain, chaliced beakers of golden flame, lightnings instant and unbearable as the face of God -- dissolving into a crystal nothing, reborn from the viewless caverns of air -- here let us erect one enraptured altar to the bright mountains of the sky!
Shandygaff
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The Hand That First Held Mine will no doubt enrapture you, just as it has me.
The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell: Book summary
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Christ will return secretly to rapture his saints before the great tribulation.
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Buddy is both daunted and enraptured by the cacophony of sights and sounds of the big city.
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With the reference to raptures, Herrick returns to the amatory imagery that links profane, sacred, and poetic themes.
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Rapture possesses an ecstatic energy in its allegro passages and an understanding and acceptance of life's struggles in its adagio section that reach the viewer unmediated by any kind of conceptual fanciness.
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As she performed Smile as an encore, a wave of quiet rapture rippled through the hall.
Times, Sunday Times
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The highlight of the day, however, was a mimicry show by cine actor, Jayaram, which left the students in raptures.
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I ate little, said less, was happy, though overwhelmed with confusion, underwent a thousand agitations, some of which were painful, but by far the greater part belonged to rapture and delight; we were imparadised in the gratification of our mutual wishes, and felt all that love can bestow, and sensibility enjoy.
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
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In this, he receives the support of those sections of the Russian intelligentsia who went into raptures about Gorbachev at the end of the 1980s.
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Some teenage fans were in raptures as the chart-topper sang yards from them and played along for the heaving crowd which spilled out into the city centre.
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Where was the old careless rapture, the twinkle, the fire?
Times, Sunday Times
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Like the old religious fetishism, with its convulsionary raptures and miraculous cures, the fetishism of commodities generates its own moments of fervent exaltation.
The Society of the Spectacle – Guy Debord (translated by Ken Knabb)
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The experienced official calmly walked over to his far side linesman and consulted him before pointing to the half-way line and sending the Dundee fans into raptures.
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The Rapture's sense of energy and charisma gave us a forty minute set consisting of live dance music.
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Objective To investigate the indication of globe enucleation after severe ocular rapture.
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In practice it means a set of extremely rotten values: greed, self-absorption, atomization, suspiciousness, superstition, lying (especially to ones' self), responsibility-shirking, resentment ('coveting'), and ultimately, nihilism ('rapture').
Your Right Hand Thief
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Read your bible, notice the rapture is a bunch of made-up bullshit with no mention of it in the scripture, grow up and renounce fundamentalism.
Think Progress » Frank Gaffney Posits That Missile Defense Logo Is Evidence of Obama’s ‘Submission To Shariah’
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Never before had she known such rapture.
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But what was all this rapture about a snuffy brown picture called Titian, this delight in three flabby nymphs by Rubens, and so forth?
The Newcomes
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While these early dramatic pictures were less than fifteen minutes long, they enraptured the public of their day.
The English Is Coming!
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It would now be impossible to imagine a repeat of July 1914 when crowds in Vienna erupted into rapture as war was declared.
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Wonderful that in the original 1855 edition, the poem rests unpunctuated at the end, ready to hand for the next poet, a rapture ready to share.
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He was merely a mortal man who could not resist the promise of rapture that was her chief spiritual asset.
DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
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As ever, his arrogance and ignorance grated on everyone who cannot abide him, and left those who adore him in raptures.
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Shelley went into rapture when he saw a wandering cloud and he celebrated the moment with a song.
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The last Irish poet who has appeared shows the spiritual qualities of the first, when he writes of the gray rivers in their "enraptured" wanderings, and when he sees in the jeweled bow which arches the heavens --
Imaginations and Reveries
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The continueing antagonistic attitudes of the right wingers and fundies towards Islam are based in their need for Armageddon and the Rapture to happen to validate their beliefs.
Think Progress » Frank Gaffney Posits That Missile Defense Logo Is Evidence of Obama’s ‘Submission To Shariah’
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This idiot believes that the rapture is an immediate event and that he is the answer.
Think Progress » To Justify War, Administration Pushed Claims By Known “Fabricatorâ€
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Artists dominated by reason lose all feeling, powerful instinct is enfeebled, inspiration becomes impoverished and the heart lacks its rapture.
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He had wheeled round from her, carried away in the triumph and rapture of the sestette.
The Divine Fire
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Her body would spasm with joyous rapture at the mere thought of it.
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perfectly beautiful, but excessively tiresome"; they laid their heads together over Descartes '_Discours de la Méthode_, and profoundly admired the philosopher; they were enraptured by the madrigals on flowers, more than three score in number, offered as the _Guirlande de Julie_ on Mademoiselle's fête; they gravely debated the question which should be the approved spelling, _muscadin_ or
A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
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Oh, the rapture mingled with reverential, holy fear -- for it is a rapturous, yet divinely fearful thing -- to be indwelt by the Holy
When the Holy Ghost is Come
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And although one would be amazed at the prodigious child who could follow to the letter its snaky progress, it captures brilliantly that moment when adults enrapture children by behaving like children themselves.
Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie - review
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The young man did not analyze the process of his captivation and enrapturement, for love to him was a mystery and could not be analyzed.
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She inveigles herself into their lives and seduces or enraptures each of them before vanishing.
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The audience was enraptured by her beautiful voice.
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The film was shown to gasps of rapture at the Democratic Convention.
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Mike German may be a nice guy, but he wouldn't be able to elicit that kind of enraptured response in a million years.
Speaking out inappropriately
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These focus on salvation, the Rapture, and the Second Coming of Jesus.
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The Westport contingent in the stadium was in rapture as Eamon was declared the winner, another title for St. Annes but they werent finished there.
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/Then over the surges he drave: leapt sporting before the God/Sea-beasts that uprose all round from the depths, for their king they knew,/And for rapture the sea was disparted, and onward the car-steeds flew.
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“Oysters and pearls,” announced the waiter, setting down a tiny portion of Caraquet oysters and tapioca topped with a scoop of sevruga caviar, a Keller signature that elicited sighs of rapture.
Two Months of Waiting Yields Five Hours in Foodie Heaven
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This explanation from the magician had the audience in raptures.
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“Robert Dunbar has the unique personal vision, command of language, and atmospheric style to enrapture you in the wildest, deepest nightmare.”
2009 March « Dark Whispers
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I carried George Montagu thither, who was in raptures, and screamed, and hooped and hollaed, and danced, and crossed himself a thousand times over.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
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The crowd, of course, are enraptured all the way through.
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When we return home and develop the photographs, our friends and relatives go into raptures over the scenery and the landscape.
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Bernard is both enraptured and repelled by this snake.
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His raptures over pretty strangers and their come-hither designer clothes were as over-the-top as his enthusiasm for a new cocktail.
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Tuesday's first night performance at the Festival Theatre was greeted with rapture by a large audience who were enthralled by the Wales Theatre Company's interpretation.
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The rest of the audience tittered as the main character made baby-noises and hopped across stage, pausing and turning to stare at the enraptured hundreds at every step.
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I almost called it "live action" something else, a kind of psilocybin cotton candy, the sheer vertiginous beauty of which at times engenders feelings not unlike rapture of the deep.
He Does It Because He's Driven
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Furthermore, mystical experience has no intrinsic or necessary connection to such things as raptures, ecstasies, locutions, stigmata, elevations and the other things that appear in mystical literature.
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If either of the men should look up, it would be quite clear that an enraptured bird watcher had her attention luted on a point far removed from their conversation.
Twin Moons
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The constant stream of praise burbling in the background of the class swelled into shouts of rapture.
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Enraptured with the music, tears filled her eyes during the gentle adagio, and a bright smile chased away the tears when the next movement, a brilliant polacca, filled the hall with its tripping measures.
Randy and Her Friends
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But while archaeologists are still in raptures over the images, mostly depicting animals, trust chiefs running the site believe it could spell great things for the area.
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The audience was enraptured by her beautiful voice.
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Each performer was wrapped up in the world of the music, and their rapture quickly spread to the audience.
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The young audience was totally enraptured by this brilliant program.
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Then turning towards us, who were lost in speechless sorrow — O dear, dear gentlemen, said she, you know not what foretastes — what assurances — And there she again stopped, and looked up, as if in a thankful rapture, sweetly smiling.
Clarissa Harlowe
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Instead, they make torrid love in Maria's apartment, a supremely erotic scene that finds rapture in the contortions of Morton's face.
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Regardless of the obnoxious vox, The Rapture rocked OK.
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It is the one apocalypse that is truly and completely final, offering no Rapture, no salvation of the chosen, and no punishment of the damned.
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The last minute goal sent the fans into raptures.
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I whooped and hollered as I pumped on the accelerator, and the girls squealed with joyful rapture.
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His every attribute had seemed to accentuate his promise: his elegant comportment, his coolness under assault, the way he worked his audiences into a kind of rapture without getting carried away with himself, without shouting or surrendering his detachment.
O: A Presidential Novel
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As she performed Smile as an encore, a wave of quiet rapture rippled through the hall.
Times, Sunday Times
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The finest of the love lyrics, quietly burning with agony and rapture, are deeply moving.
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Even scarier is the fact that these GOP-ers are usually Fundamentalist “pro-life” Christians who believe in that made up rapture BS.
Think Progress » Rep. Gohmert introduces resolution endorsing an Israeli military strike on Iran.
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For him, aesthetic rapture has had to replace religious rapture, and he can see that has its drawbacks.
Times, Sunday Times
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The micro-payments that people were talking about when Shirky wrote this eventually came in the form of "eyeballs," supposedly enraptured by online advertising.
Archive 2009-04-01
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She was in the seventh heaven of rapture.
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The legendary radio commentators from that era enraptured a generation.
The Sun
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Note the use of the term prophetic by both, with its complex of connotations quite at odds with the grounding in science — religion and rapture, voices and visions, the conjuring otherwise known as fantasy defined, for the moment, not in terms of literature but in terms of psychology: the sustained fancy; the ludic or oneiric imagining; from the Greek phantasia; a making visible.
Notes from New Sodom: Down in the Ghetto at the SF Café
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'You will have to take on a mate or two in the polishing line,' said Jack to Killick, who was gazing round with a kind of imbecile rapture at the number of surfaces that he might now attack with powdered chalk and shammy leather: like many seamen he had a passion for making metal shine, and he had already reduced Jack's earliest silver plates to something not far removed from foil.
Archive 2009-04-01
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His voice enraptured the crowd, who were compelled to sing along.
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Whatever is truly great in either Greek or Christian art, is also restrictedly human; and even the raptures of the redeemed souls who enter "celestemente ballando," [188] the gate of Angelico's
Selections From the Works of John Ruskin
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As someone enraptured with history, and visiting around the time of the eightieth anniversary of the end of the First World War, I went to offer my respects at the tomb of Hussein ibn Ali — the Grand Sharif of Mecca, the father of Emir Abdullah, and the great-grandfather of King Hussein.
Israel Now
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Often would he make his father repeat the actions of his ancestors, his face glowing, and his eyes sparkling with rapture when any glorious atchievement was mentioned — frequently, in the middle of the recital, would he on a sudden start up, and with a peculiar emphasis of voice and look, intreat of
De Montmorency: a Novel Founded on Recent Fact
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At this juncture Miss Clarissa Newboy enters in a pink paletot, trimmed with swansdown — looking like an angel — and we exchange glances of — what shall I say? — of sympathy on both parts, and consummate rapture on mine.
Our Street
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It's 2 o'clock in the morning and I am in a club full of people who seem to be dancing in rapture.
Tijana Milosevic: Self-Expression Through House Dance Culture
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My clergy spouse and I found ourselves defining the word "rapture" at an interfaith table.
David A. Davis: The Rapture Effect: Finding The Church's Voice When It Really Matters
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As ever, his arrogance and ignorance grated on everyone who cannot abide him, and left those who adore him (mainly confined to some quarters of the United States) in raptures.
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It is said to take you to both a deathlike coma and a lively rapture.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God
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I can't imagine anything worse than being stuck here after the good souls have been raptured up to heaven.
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The same area also fires when people feel intense religious rapture.
Times, Sunday Times
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With a stage presence as big as her amazing costumes, her ad-libs and one-liners had the audience in raptures.
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Gary's smashing of the 21-year-old record has sent the gaming world into raptures, because many thought 389,770 was a high score that would never be beaten.
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listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture
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I'm also of accusing him of having a miniscule mind based on the fact that he is apparently so enraptured by his own ideology that he is blind to its faults.
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I'm afraid I but half comprehended his meaning, but the rapture of his eye infected me like a glisk of the sun.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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And here was me, utterly enraptured.
ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?: A Life Through the Movies
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They were enraptured to meet the great film star.
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The book is called Left Behind and is about the Rapture, from the book of Revelation in the Bible.
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Protestant fundamentalists believe that shortly before the end, all the born-again Christians with true faith will be snatched up to heaven, and they call this Rapture.
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Their final duet was a melody of sweet rapture, as it should be.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was in Afghanistan for only the first four years of my life, yet the country fascinates me, enraptures me and the hope of its rise once again against all odds keeps me going.
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An omnivorous troubadour, he roves from Manchester libraries to Colombian villages to salvage musical traditions – with recordings that move from Berber beats to the raptures of a raga, from the thrilling stillness of an Armenian lament to the sprightliness of an Elizabethan galliard.
In praise of … Jordi Savall | Editorial
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Burned with the flame of the vernal erotical rapture,
The Stranger at the Gate
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The October 11 date he set for the Rapture came and went uneventfully.
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The crisis ran through its usual course, ending in a state of rapture, during which she enjoyed for days 'a kind of beatific vision of God. '
Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)
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The word rapture is the Latin version of a phrase the Bible uses to describe the catching away of all Christians, both dead and alive, on the earth at the appointed time.
Can America Survive?
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The audience was enraptured by her beautiful voice.
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You live in a state of utter seriousness with intermittent transports of rapture.
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Standing beneath that wall, I let my fantasy enclose me in rapture.
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Retired All-Black Murray Mexted, commentating on TV during the last match, was in raptures.
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He listened to the music with an expression of pure rapture on his face.
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enraptured," a concept that, naturally, puzzles a nattering TV anchor.
The Online News Page
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Their final duet was a melody of sweet rapture, as it should be.
Times, Sunday Times
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He composed wistful passages about “the plump turgescence of youth,” and in pears found the “soft rapture of attainment.”
The Fruit Hunters
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The same area also fires when people feel intense religious rapture.
Times, Sunday Times
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The critics went into raptures about her performance.
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O joy, o rapture, first Lieberman now Rudy, two of the worst speakers in the world will regale us with tales of how manly McCain is and how 9/11 always follows a noun and a verb. — cicero
Giuliani to Give G.O.P. Keynote - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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The prime minister's supporters greeted her speech with rapture.