ravish

How To Use ravish In A Sentence

• The urn as unravished bride proleptically contains its ravishment as a natural outcome in the ritual of weddings that parallels the consummation of questions asked. Deforming Keat's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
• The structure is surprisingly complex, viewing the same events from different perspectives, which Zhang helpfully colour-codes in ravishing washes of primary tints.
• ‘Thou still unravished bride of quietness,’ he quoted. Lady Chatterley's Lover
• She was ravishing in her tailored jackets and argyle socks. Lorelei
• Oh, tweetums tootums ickle dirl!" he heard the ravishing voice exclaim. Seventeen
• Teaming a beautiful three-quarter-length floaty dress with a tailored coat means you can splash out on a great hat, but, once you remove it and your coat, you are left with something ravishing to dance in.
• Planted near deep blue flowers or purple foliage the effect is absolutely ravishing.
• At some moments the soloist's rubato might have seemed overly attenuated, but it would be curmudgeonly to complain, particularly in the light of his ravishingly beautiful treatment of sequential passages.
• If there's haste, it's a ravishment borne by yourself, not imposed by the medium's structure itself.
• White's descriptions of daily life in medieval England are ravishingly vivid: Like a restorer of antiques, he strips away the grime and smoke from the past until it's bright and clear as the present. Arthur Comes Alive In 'The Once And Future King'