Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a ravishing manner; so as to delight or enchant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a ravishing manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a manner so as to be considered
ravishing orbeautiful .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a ravishing manner or to a ravishing degree
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Examples
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Um. Once at school one of the girls said she had a 'trade-last' for me, and after I had searched the closets of memory and dragged out that some one had said she had pretty eyes, dressed it up until this some one had called her ravishingly beautiful -- after all that conscientious dishonesty what does she tell me but that some one had said
The Visioning Susan Glaspell 1915
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It ends with a ravishingly beautiful orchestral postlude as Junior, Dinah's mentally ill adult son, embraces her casket.
Catching Up to Bernstein Heidi Waleson 2010
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"Lancelot du Lac" "Lancelot of the Lake," 1974 is as ravishingly stylized as a painting by Uccello, but hooves and lances suggest gears in a dreamlike machine that generates spurting blood and charred bodies.
Salvation at the Forum Kristin M. Jones 2012
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Visconti picks up Tomasi's own alertness to the physicality of life; his film's images overwhelm us as ravishingly as Tomasi's words do.
A Lyric, Elegiac Lament for a Lost World Willard Spiegelman 2011
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CocoRosie's exquisite songs prove ravishingly entertaining live.
S.X. Rosenstock: CocoRosie Turns It On: Passion Is the Pull of Your Past S.X. Rosenstock 2010
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Tak Fujimoto did the ravishingly desolate cinematography.
A Towering 'Tree,' Out on a Limb Joe Morgenstern 2011
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Williams also produced a creamy tone on her softly sung phrases, some ravishingly floated high notes and an arresting chest voice that paid dividends in the spoken excerpts of classical plays that Adriana declaims at several points in the opera.
Review: Washington Concert Opera's 'Adriana Lecouvreur' at Lisner Auditorium Joe Banno 2010
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