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

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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'
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. . . A Window Onto Comic Tedium
Pallid and mad, he swift upsprang, and he tore up a tree by its lusty roots, and down the declivity, dashing with rapid leaps, panting and wild, he struck the ravisher on the temple with the mighty pine. Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity
When Zulaykha tried to captivate Joseph by her ravishing beauty, the Almighty hastened to help him.
This ravishing city, seductively perfumed with orange blossom, is every bit as alluring as Spain's most infamous femme fatale.
Ghislaine sang in a ravishing fashion, and Yves accompanied her on the clavecin that stood in the petit salon, mingling the grave accents of his baritone with her clear soprano. A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago
In the hungry light of the houseboat he could see the fiery ravishment of her legs and belly; he could smell the other man, and her devourment of him. Tours of the Black Clock
Again: — Pallid and mad, he swift upsprang, and he tore up a tree by its lusty roots, and down the declivity, dashing with rapid leaps, panting and wild, he struck the ravisher on the temple with the mighty pine. A Review of 'Alroy'
a ravishing blonde
The most typical image of him is a mondaine hedonist, coolly sucking on a Gitane while caressing a ravishing doll. GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 11/30.
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Humbert's first, lost girlfriend, Annabel, is perhaps not unrelated to Byron's first wife, Anne Isabella, who was known as "Annabella," and she has parents named Leigh, just like Byron's ravished half-sister Augusta. Hurricane Lolita
she was ravishingly beautiful
Your hours will pass in dread and misery, and soon the bolt will fall which must ravish from you your happiness for ever. Chapter 3
What little bit survives a couple of hundred years of human ravishment, that is! Newmatilda.com - Comments
One night a wolf comes and kills many chickens and ravishes a lamb.
God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill State; which inforced uniformity sooner or later is the greatest occasion of civill Warre, ravishing of conscience, persecution of Christ Jesus in his servants, and of the hypocrisie and destruction of millions of souls. Constitutional blood.
Delphica and M. M.tharete, with whom she was archaeological, ravishingly amoebaean of Homer. One of Our Conquerors — Complete
During the Second World War my hometown was ravished, and all its treasure robbed.
She is tiny in stature, but is possessed of a ravishing soprano voice that rides the large orchestra, and fills the vast arena of the Coliseum with ease.
This song they carolled on such dulcet wise and so delightsomely that to the king, who beheld and hearkened to them with ravishment, it seemed as if all the hierarchies of the angels were lighted there to sing. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
Nineteenth-century travellers were ravished by the romantic spectacle of them, as they were delighted by the orientalism of the city itself, with its mysterious and lascivious suggestions of the east.
The red ruffle detail dress is flirty and fun with frills falling from the hem and shoulder for a ravishing party look.
In the first scene of the film, Marshall Will Kane marries the ravishing Amy and retires his marshal's badge.
The desperate model, 31, hitched up her skirt and pleaded to be "ravished" on the dancefloor of a busy nightclub, revellers said. British Blogs
It's not surprising that they would exhume him now to serve his usual role as facilitator of GOP criminal ravishment.
Julius Caesar was ravished by Cleopatra's beauty.
The four leaping women of Empty Center, their pink skin ravishing against the dark green background, are a scattered rendition of Matisse's The Dance (first version).
She would have sketches of scenes between Delphica and M. Falarique, with whom the young Germania was cleverly ingenuous indeed -- a seminary Celimene; and between Delphica and M. M.tharete, with whom she was archaeological, ravishingly amoebaean of Homer. One of Our Conquerors — Volume 4
The Lexicon Of Love, was a sensational debut, with its brass constructions and guitar ravishments.
Hand wrench wrench gusset, I nod, Air Jordan VII, but cannot help but to henceforth see time and time afresh, that ravishing dashing blue dress man, while, just tin arise another?
Their preachers were both papists and Puritans, Jacobites and republicans; they ravished wives or influenced them to give up all fleshly pleasures; they coveted other men's goods or denied them the use of worldly possessions.
A ravishing collage, although it was not an ideal illustration of his brief flirtation with Surrealist practice.
These are ravishing pictures and this is the first time that so many of them have been shown.
The red ruffle detail dress is flirty and fun with frills falling from the hem and shoulder for a ravishing party look.
I'm angry because I feel like this generation is being ravished by depression and despair.
I behold the light with a kind of ravishment, and all the rest of the day I am happy. Classic French Course in English
Pertinax exposed to public auction, 51 gold and silver plate, chariots of a singular construction, a superfluous wardrobe of silk and embroidery, and a great number of beautiful slaves of both sexes; excepting only, with attentive humanity, those who were born in a state of freedom, and had been ravished from the arms of their weeping parents. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
She looked absolutely ravishing in a pale blue suit.
‘Your Highness, forgive me for saying so, but you look absolutely ravishing tonight,’ he said smoothly, grinning at her charmingly.
This year's show has captured the usual kind of criticism within architectural circles, torn between finding some things beautiful but then feeling the guilt for being ravished by the beauty. Todd Reisz and Rory Hyde: Reclaim Bahrain
I know that I, myself, would rather see a "still unravished bride of quietness, a foster child of silence a slow time" than an old jug any day. Big Fish
There is one solo in which the soprano sings that she wants to "engrave" the crucified Jesus in her heart; the German pun is amazing in itself, but the music is so ravishing that I find myself caught up in its imaginative reality: it arouses feelings of tenderness and grief and devotion that I can't say I want to reject. Philocrites: January 2003 Archives
He mistrusted ravishment by charm, spiritual appeal, force, wit or other blandishments.
This dire, occasionally damnable predictability undermines the painterly finesse with which the film's director arranges his ravishing images.
In fact, excuse me for saying so, but I'm absolutely more ravishing than you.
The film is ravishing to look at and boasts a sensuous musical score.
He was supposed to have kept her awake, not ravish her, not rut her like some animal.
The Hartke Symphony was also gorgeously done, and it is a ravishing new score.
From addressing the urn in problematic human terms (unravished bride, fosterchild, sylvan historian), the speaker ends up acknowledging the urn as an artificial, but stimulating presence to human eyes ( "a friend to man"). Teaching Keats's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' in New Zealand
Naked areas are set off by ravishing textiles, and body parts, particularly, are often framed by gorgeously patterned and richly folded draperies.
Her ability to combine ravishing description with incisive analysis was outstanding.
During the Second World War my hometown was ravished, and all its treasure robbed.
Already her imaginative father is ravishing in fancy the mouldiest wine-cellars of Continental Europe. The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation
This ravishing heart-shaped 25 carat rock, at London-jeweller Graff, comes with a millionaire's price tag.
But higher still than the activities of art, the intellect in its purity, and the moral sense in its purity, are not distinguished from each other, and both ravish us into a region whereinto these passionate clouds of sorrow cannot rise. Uncollected Prose
Having begun its corrupt debauchment of conurbations worldwide by sleazing up New York (kind of a gimme), this rampant rendezvous of ravishment has moved on to purvey its own sordid brand of pastel-smudged skullduggery in the artistic communities of more than two dozen cities. Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art Show, NYC « Skid Roche
Find out the latest fashion statements as ravishing beauties from Bangalore in exotic outfits gang up to jinx you.
Orwell composed that novel of aching remembrance in torrid Morocco, so I make no apology for saying that McEwan put me in mind, twice, of John Keats as he gazed on the work of ancient Attica: “Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness/Thou foster-child of silence and slow time.” Think of England
Thus its wealth remained long unravished, though its people began to dwindle. The Lord of the Rings
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. Robert Elsmere
Among the cyclamen, Colchicum, with elegant, long-stemmed pink goblets, completes this ravishing October picture.
Famine and disease had ravished and dispirited the people and emigration had drained the land of most of its youth.
Berry chose to interpolate music from other leading choral composers including Richard Allain, whose Night wraps Shelley's poem in velvet chords as thick as darkness, adding a sonorous cello melody beautifully played by Katherine Jenkinson that floats through the stars to ravishing effect. Così fan tutte; Dream Hunter; Commotio; Stephen Hough, LPO/Alsop – review
He is quick to reassure: his twin rejoinders could scarcely be more tender, his cadential harmonies more ravishing, or the intervening scintillating cascade more bewitching.
She looks ravishing, with an hourglass figure that is beyond comprehension.
The pure, high tones of the sopranos were ravishing.
They had come home during the height of the disturbances to discover their teenage daughter being ravished by a young police officer.
Minutes later, the men were ravishing Cliona - separately at first, then together.
Young guys with bulging biceps and ravishing girls in figure-hugging outfits occupied every inch of the place.
Even more amazingly, especially in the ravishing performance of Debussy's orchestral seascapes, they bring a chamber music-like transparency to this diaphanous score.
Is that what you said to the daughter of Merewala when you killed her father and ravished her?
But he could not ignore the roar from the Taiwanese tourists in the audience when the ravishing kimono-clad kathoey completed her expert lip sync to a song by Sally Yeh, nor could he ignore the thunderous applause from the Latinos when a group of deviants in sequined, feathered, flame-red dresses performed an elaborate dance routine to the song “Baila Amigo.” THE MOONLIT EARTH
The ravishing harmony of the final invocation of Christ and ‘the glory of Paradise’ brings to mind the very similar chorales of Bernstein's Mass.
Famine and disease had ravished and dispirited the people and emigration had drained the land of most of its youth.
At first I wasn't sure where he was going with the idea, particularly when he brought up the idea of being ravished, which is so 1980's bodice rippers, but then he mentioned a man wanting to be ravished and having his partner in control and I remembered the scene in Hope Tarr's new Blaze release Bound to Please, where the heroine has her way with the hero. Archive 2008-09-01
‘O brasier-light350 and joy of the sprite, let us hear thy lovely voice, whereby all that hearken are ravished with delight.’ The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
They were reared in splendour and tender affection, in respectful bearing and in the perfection of training; and they were instructed in penmanship and science and the arts of government and horsemanship, till they attained the extreme accomplishments and the utmost limit of beauty and loveliness; both men and women being ravished by their charms. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Maybe the hand, in falling, will drop a healing nap to wake us, pillows ravished, applauding our dreams. The Awkwardtist
At the time when he married Sonia, she was not only ravishing but well provided for, and El Duende could buy more land and notably improve his stock of brood mares.
It ends with a ravishingly beautiful orchestral postlude as Junior, Dinah's mentally ill adult son, embraces her casket. Catching Up to Bernstein
Although personally antipathetic to his modernist pioneering spirit, I have been seduced time and again by the ravishing sounds that he produces.
He made her stand holding up her skirt, and to her delight applied cold cream to her ravished posterior.
And after his conversion ne dwelt in that city three days, without sight and without meat or drink; and in those three days he was ravished to heaven, and there he saw many privities of our The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
The spacious buildings lining the wide streets seemed unravished by time; the great band of marble that held the sea at bay was still unbreached; the parks and gardens, though long overgrown with weeds, were not yet jungles. Tales of Ten Worlds
Add class to your style by including these utterly ravishing and stunning bags that are a rage this season.
The Festival opens amidst the ravishing sound-world of Debussy's ground-breaking String Quartet in G minor.
Palin also used Twitter this year to discuss the Gulf Coast being "ravished" by the oil spill. ABC News: Top Stories
The Hartke Symphony was also gorgeously done, and it is a ravishing new score.
That horde, if it gets through to Eleusis, will not leave an ear standing, a sheep running, a jar unbroken, or a girl unravished. The King Must Die
These days, I make more than I used to (twenty years ago) of the gender-marking of questioning and interpretation in the spectatorial drama of the Ode: a male poet, the female object he would ravish, the heightening of his aggression, and perhaps disdain, in relation to her refusals. The Know of Not to Know It: My Returns to Reading and Teaching Keats's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' -
Though the light that the lone lamp provided was dim, the debutantes could all see that the girl who kept Lord William and Mr. Phineas company was ravishing, with jet black hair and magnolia skin.
In another scene of reading Keats hails an urn as a "still unravished bride of quietness Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound
This is first and foremost a collection of ravishing photographs, many of them exquisite platinum prints.
Still, better than Patrick Leigh Fermor, endless garbage about local customs, ravishing scenery, enchanting cranky locals.
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Revellers have revealed that the 31-year-old hitched up her skirt and pleaded to be "ravished" on the dance floor of a busy nightclub. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
Admits Sewell, “When I was an adolescent, I imagined these knights from the Middle Ages would ravish me.” She’s Just Not That Into You
It records the streets, the clothes, the decors and the furnishings of all strata of pre-war Paris society in ravishing detail.
A ravishing dessert tray is proffered after every meal, and selections range from fruit-inspired sweets to insulin-overdrive chocolate concoctions.
The film is ravishing to look at and boasts a sensuous musical score.
But the more ravishing the beauty which seemed offered through perfect realization of this knowledge, the more blighting would be its effects, if entertained in the spirit of a selfish dilettanteism. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863
Assail me and you irrevocably ravish your own integrity, triturate your own sculpted truths. The Astigmatism Of The Human Genome Project
But as a dramatic prelude to the writing of Goethe's breakthrough work, "The Sorrows of Young Werther," the film follows the facts: While living in the smallish burg of Wetzlar, Goethe was indeed involved with Charlotte Buff (played by the ravishing Miriam Stein); her fiancé was Goethe's fellow counselor-at-law, Albert Kestner (the ubiquitous Moritz Bleibtreu); their mutual friend, Wilhelm Jerusalem (Volker Bruch) did in fact kill himself for love. Crime Comedy 'Heist' Lacks Conviction
Now that handiwork is looking pretty shoddy as cancer cells are ravishing your body. A Review of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
Catherine Wyn-Rogers, one of Britain's most acclaimed mezzo-sopranos and much loved by Proms audiences, sings Sir Edward Elgar's ravishing Sea Pictures.
Decked out in full make-up, pomaded hair, and impossibly high stack heels, he impudently swaggers through the film in ‘come ravish me’ midriff-baring outfits.
Moreover, in that garden were birds of all breeds, ring-dove and cushat and nightingale and culver, each singing his several song, and amongst them the lady, swaying gracefully to and fro in her beauty and grace and symmetry and loveliness and ravishing all who saw her. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
She transforms herself from an awkward girl with ‘kinky hair and bad skin’ into a ravishing, couture-clad sylph, winning adulation for her public appearances around the world.
She didn't think she was ugly; she just didn't see herself as the ravishing beauty people often told her she was.
They are coming to kill every single man and woman with guns and knives, and to ravish our daughters and wives.
He mistrusted ravishment by charm, spiritual appeal, force, wit or other blandishments.
Among the most excessive is the ravishing Vila Algarve, a rococo fantasy of curving terraces and balconies and stairways, topped off with urns and grotesques and maiolica-tiled tableaux, the whole place teetering on the verge of complete disintegration. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
Beijing opera ravished the audience.
Two of the best diamond looks included ravishing Kate Hudson in a long diamond sautoir necklace worn down her back, briolette diamond and baguette diamond drop earrings, a 15.65 carat emerald cut diamond ring, and a diamond cocktail ring all from Cartier and Screen Actor's Guild winner Christina Hendricks from "Mad Men" in rose-cut diamond pendant earrings and a rose-cut diamond ring from Irit Designs. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
Although the plants are dowdy looking and scentless during the day, at dusk they suddenly release a powerful ravishing scent.
Although personally antipathetic to his modernist pioneering spirit, I have been seduced time and again by the ravishing sounds that he produces.
As well can the lover forgive the ravisher of his mistress, as the continent forgive the murders of Britain.
His art is refined but never precious, and the voice per se is simply ravishing.
The word "ravished" (Pr 5: 19) here denotes fulness of punishment. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Federico Bonelli and Inaki Urlezaga will dance the rather heroically-challenged part of Daphnis, the lover boy who languishes in a faint while his abducted inamorata risks ravishing by pirates.
Ten ravishing models from Bangalore, dressed in clothes designed by fashion technology students, set the ramp ablaze.
The speaker worked his way through plunder, ravishment and seditious behavior.
After a little, shaggy, ventripotent Pan will grow jealous, and ravish you away from me, as he stole Syrinx from her lover.
Every day, when George came home from his work, he found some new article completed, and was ravished by the scent of some new kind of sachet powder. Damaged Goods; the great play "Les avaries" by Brieux, novelized with the approval of the author
What is it about Chris Matthews’ show that evokes images of bodice-ripping, drooling ravishment?
He turned to face Mindy, her ravishing, long brown hair waving in the slight breeze.
Moreover, in that garden were birds of all breeds, ring-dove and cushat and nightingale and culver, each singing his several song, and amongst them the lady, swaying gracefully to and fro in her beauty and grace and symmetry and loveliness and ravishing all who saw her. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
His tone and legato playing are ravishing, and his execution of the composer's florid runs and other figurations is smooth.
The smaller paintings vary in color from the same pyrelene green-black to a radiant gray-gold to a ravishing Ferrari red.
Still, better than Patrick Leigh Fermor, endless garbage about local customs, ravishing scenery, enchanting cranky locals.
He brought all his dandy knick-knacks, not forgetting a ravishing little desk presented to him by the most amiable of women, — amiable for him, at least, — a fine lady whom he called Annette and who at this moment was travelling, matrimonially and wearily, in Scotland, Eug�nie Grandet
A ravishing dessert tray is proffered after every meal, and selections range from fruit-inspired sweets to insulin-overdrive chocolate concoctions.
I know that I, myself, would rather see a “still unravished bride of quietness, a foster child of silence a slow time” than an old jug any day. Big Fish | Her Bad Mother
Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana - Milano/De Agostini Picture Library Leonardo da Vinci's 'Portrait of a Young Man (The Musician)' (circa 1486-7) It is worth the price of admission and queuing for one of the 500 day tickets to see this ravishing show, which complements the Leonardos with relevant paintings by his contemporaries and pupils. An Exhibition of a Lifetime
To the Marx songs, the tessitura of which is ideally suited to her edgy soprano, she brings incomparable authority and ravishing vocalism.
What is it about Chris Matthews’ show that evokes images of bodice-ripping, drooling ravishment?
Theirs is a "small" life, but one that expands the intimacy of this real and world-wide ravishment. Lauren Gunderson: Theater of the Every Day Epic
His ravishing portrait of the young English recusant nun Elizabeth Throckmorton (c. 1729; Washington, NG) is a case in point.
The same goes for the Allegretto fantastico which is also quite ravishing and all is rounded off in a Molto allegro agitato that brings the work to an extremely satisfying conclusion.
There was beauty in the sight, the soft eternal beauty of an unravished land, but over and above that was the suggestion that the travellers were fighting not merely against their kind but against the untrammelled forces of an all-powerful wilderness. The Lost Valley
Principles of Musik (1636, p. 1), “ravisheth the minde with a kinde of ecstasi, lifting it up from the regarde of earthly things, unto the desire of celestiall joyz.” Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Mack Mitchell's "ravishment" of teenage Tibetan refugees eh Desmond? Ministers and Professional Ethics
It is a ravishing work, hardly less so than the more often performed second quartet, ‘Intimate Letters.’
It will have to be acknowledged that as long as the black rats were in power they were as much shunned by all other living creatures as the gray rats are in our day – and for just cause; they had thrown themselves upon poor, fettered prisoners, and tortured them; they had ravished the dead; they had stolen the last turnip from the cellars of the poor; bitten off the feet of sleeping geese; stolen eggs and chicks from the hens; and had committed a thousand depredations. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Characteristically, he depicts the mythic heroine at the very moment of her ravishment, when she is taken by Zeus, transformed into a shower of gold coins.
And speaking thus, he dropped on his knees and pressed to her feet his face, whose glowing and noble expression ravished Catharine's heart. Henry VIII and His Court
When the studio wanted to film a pivotal scene inside the beautiful reading room of the Pasadena Public Library, Baldwin declared that it was all wrong for his character, and offered to pay 150 grand of his own money to stage it out in the desert in front of a ravishing sunset. The Passion of Alec Baldwin
The film is ravishing to look at and boasts a sensuous musical score.
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. Robert Elsmere
He shook his head, ‘I dare say, she has once again fallen into the ravishing trap of love… I know that look.’
“You, icy sweetness of strawberry, chocolate or vanilla, melting, stickily into your inverted dunce cap, ravisher of appetites, leading the younger generation from the straight and narrow paths of spinach, pilferer of the pennies that might go to make a fortune; destroyer of the peace of homes, instrument of bribery and reward of virtue.” One Big Table
Without it, literature in particular becomes just another form of moral or political discourse (which is paradoxically what Wieseltier objected to in Checkpoint), but Wieseltier's aversion to being "ravished" by art is obviously so powerful that it is a price he would willingly pay. The State of Criticism
She would be too ashamed to confide in the abbess about how she was ravished by a stranger.
What you need are ravishing good looks, charm and undemanding chit-chat, all of which Marlborough Merlot offers.
I was ravished by her beauty.
She looked pretty as a picture herself out here in the sunshine - a ravishing rose amongst a garden of gorgeous roses.
She simply wants to be a beautiful, glamorous, radiant, ravishing movie star.

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