How To Use Ravishing In A Sentence
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The structure is surprisingly complex, viewing the same events from different perspectives, which Zhang helpfully colour-codes in ravishing washes of primary tints.
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She was ravishing in her tailored jackets and argyle socks.
Lorelei
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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.
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Planted near deep blue flowers or purple foliage the effect is absolutely ravishing.
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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.
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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.
Arthur Comes Alive In 'The Once And Future King'
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When Zulaykha tried to captivate Joseph by her ravishing beauty, the Almighty hastened to help him.
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This ravishing city, seductively perfumed with orange blossom, is every bit as alluring as Spain's most infamous femme fatale.
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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
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a ravishing blonde
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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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she was ravishingly beautiful
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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.
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Delphica and M. M.tharete, with whom she was archaeological, ravishingly amoebaean of Homer.
One of Our Conquerors — Complete
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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.
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The red ruffle detail dress is flirty and fun with frills falling from the hem and shoulder for a ravishing party look.
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In the first scene of the film, Marshall Will Kane marries the ravishing Amy and retires his marshal's badge.
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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).
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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
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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?
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A ravishing collage, although it was not an ideal illustration of his brief flirtation with Surrealist practice.
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These are ravishing pictures and this is the first time that so many of them have been shown.
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The red ruffle detail dress is flirty and fun with frills falling from the hem and shoulder for a ravishing party look.
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She looked absolutely ravishing in a pale blue suit.
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‘Your Highness, forgive me for saying so, but you look absolutely ravishing tonight,’ he said smoothly, grinning at her charmingly.
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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
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This dire, occasionally damnable predictability undermines the painterly finesse with which the film's director arranges his ravishing images.
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In fact, excuse me for saying so, but I'm absolutely more ravishing than you.
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The film is ravishing to look at and boasts a sensuous musical score.
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The Hartke Symphony was also gorgeously done, and it is a ravishing new score.
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Naked areas are set off by ravishing textiles, and body parts, particularly, are often framed by gorgeously patterned and richly folded draperies.
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Her ability to combine ravishing description with incisive analysis was outstanding.
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Already her imaginative father is ravishing in fancy the mouldiest wine-cellars of Continental Europe.
The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation
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This ravishing heart-shaped 25 carat rock, at London-jeweller Graff, comes with a millionaire's price tag.
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Find out the latest fashion statements as ravishing beauties from Bangalore in exotic outfits gang up to jinx you.
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Among the cyclamen, Colchicum, with elegant, long-stemmed pink goblets, completes this ravishing October picture.
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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
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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.
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She looks ravishing, with an hourglass figure that is beyond comprehension.
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The pure, high tones of the sopranos were ravishing.
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Minutes later, the men were ravishing Cliona - separately at first, then together.
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Young guys with bulging biceps and ravishing girls in figure-hugging outfits occupied every inch of the place.
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Even more amazingly, especially in the ravishing performance of Debussy's orchestral seascapes, they bring a chamber music-like transparency to this diaphanous score.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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Although personally antipathetic to his modernist pioneering spirit, I have been seduced time and again by the ravishing sounds that he produces.
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Add class to your style by including these utterly ravishing and stunning bags that are a rage this season.
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The Festival opens amidst the ravishing sound-world of Debussy's ground-breaking String Quartet in G minor.
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The Hartke Symphony was also gorgeously done, and it is a ravishing new score.
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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.
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This is first and foremost a collection of ravishing photographs, many of them exquisite platinum prints.
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Still, better than Patrick Leigh Fermor, endless garbage about local customs, ravishing scenery, enchanting cranky locals.
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It records the streets, the clothes, the decors and the furnishings of all strata of pre-war Paris society in ravishing detail.
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A ravishing dessert tray is proffered after every meal, and selections range from fruit-inspired sweets to insulin-overdrive chocolate concoctions.
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The film is ravishing to look at and boasts a sensuous musical score.
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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
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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
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Now that handiwork is looking pretty shoddy as cancer cells are ravishing your body.
A Review of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
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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.
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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
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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.
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She didn't think she was ugly; she just didn't see herself as the ravishing beauty people often told her she was.
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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.
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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.
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Although the plants are dowdy looking and scentless during the day, at dusk they suddenly release a powerful ravishing scent.
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Although personally antipathetic to his modernist pioneering spirit, I have been seduced time and again by the ravishing sounds that he produces.
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His art is refined but never precious, and the voice per se is simply ravishing.
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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.
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Ten ravishing models from Bangalore, dressed in clothes designed by fashion technology students, set the ramp ablaze.
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He turned to face Mindy, her ravishing, long brown hair waving in the slight breeze.
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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
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His tone and legato playing are ravishing, and his execution of the composer's florid runs and other figurations is smooth.
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The smaller paintings vary in color from the same pyrelene green-black to a radiant gray-gold to a ravishing Ferrari red.
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Still, better than Patrick Leigh Fermor, endless garbage about local customs, ravishing scenery, enchanting cranky locals.
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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
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A ravishing dessert tray is proffered after every meal, and selections range from fruit-inspired sweets to insulin-overdrive chocolate concoctions.
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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
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To the Marx songs, the tessitura of which is ideally suited to her edgy soprano, she brings incomparable authority and ravishing vocalism.
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His ravishing portrait of the young English recusant nun Elizabeth Throckmorton (c. 1729; Washington, NG) is a case in point.
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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.
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It is a ravishing work, hardly less so than the more often performed second quartet, ‘Intimate Letters.’
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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
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The film is ravishing to look at and boasts a sensuous musical score.
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He shook his head, ‘I dare say, she has once again fallen into the ravishing trap of love… I know that look.’
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What you need are ravishing good looks, charm and undemanding chit-chat, all of which Marlborough Merlot offers.
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She looked pretty as a picture herself out here in the sunshine - a ravishing rose amongst a garden of gorgeous roses.
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She simply wants to be a beautiful, glamorous, radiant, ravishing movie star.
