rapturous

“If he had thought her expression rapturous before, he’d been wrong.”

Simon & Schuster: The Laird Who Loved Me

“Tim heard my cries, and he arrived at the witch's school to be bathed in rapturous love from the prepubescent masses.”

The Tim Curry fandom post/half-assed Worst Witch review

“She nodded and turned to face him, expecting—and hoping for—a passionate kiss, an expression of rapturous joy on his face.”

Simon & Schuster: Rhapsody In Time

“An hour was spent in rapturous inspection, and then everything was placed carefully back in the boxes.”

The Second Chance

“I'm Irish and inflammable, I suppose, but I never looked on a girl to make a man comprehend the entire holy meaning of the word rapturous, like that one.”

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith

“Wainwright’s concert at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday (and also last night) was not merely a show, but a cultural event that drew a sold-out crowd dotted with celebrities and an audience that held Wainwright in rapturous esteem.”

Katie Holmes “So You Think You Can Dance” VIDEO (Judy Garland “Get Happy” Tribute)

“Years afterward, when flesh and blood were all too slow for him and he was one of the best motorists in England, if not in Europe, he used to recall the rapturous pleasure of that first drive of his, that first introduction to the mad, tense joy of speed that ever after held him in thrall.”

Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker

“If the happiness of contemplating her wonderful beauty," remonstrated he, "was yours, as it is mine, you could not fail to understand my verses, which, alas, describe in such meagre and inadequate terms the rapturous feelings experienced by every one who sees her even from a distance!”

From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan

“After a week of difficult summitry in Russia and Italy, trying to get balky allies to follow his lead, the outpouring Obama was treated to in Ghana can only be called rapturous - from Africans overjoyed at the visit of America's first black president to a country south of the Sahara.”

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