(1) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
(2) This is a fascinating possibility for solving the skin shortage problem especially in burn cases.
(3) In a new venture, BDJ Study Tours will offer a separate itinerary for partners on the Study Safari so whilst the business of dentistry gets under way they can explore additional sights in this fascinating country.
(4) It is this combination that explains the widespread fascination with how China's economic size or power compares to America's, and especially with the question of whether the challenger has now displaced the long-reigning champion.
(5) The goal must be to prevent or reverse this fascinating disease, utilizing specific therapy designed from a knowledge of the cause and pathogenesis of the disease.
(6) We can inhabit only one version of being human – the only version that survives today – but what is fascinating is that palaeoanthropology shows us those other paths to becoming human, their successes and their eventual demise, whether through failure or just sheer bad luck.
(7) Stationed in Sarajevo, he became fascinated by special forces methods there and insisted on going on a night raid with them.
(8) Sometimes in the other team’s half, sometimes in front of his own box, sometimes as the last man.” Die Zeit singles out Bayern’s veteran midfielder Schweinsteiger for praise: “In this historic, dramatic and fascinating victory over Argentina , Schweinsteiger was the boss on the pitch.
(9) Her history is fascinating – every time you think she has finished telling you about her childhood, she embarks on another chapter.
(10) This kind of audience investment is one of the reasons why James Baker's 30 Days to Space , at the Edinburgh 2010 forest fringe, proved so fascinating.
(11) "It's fascinating that 2010 will be bookended by two controversial political books, one about the latter years of the Government [Observer writer Andrew Rawnsley's The End of the Party], and one by the man that delivered New Labour to the country in the 1990s."
(12) The fascinating pathogenetic, clinical, biological and therapeutic resemblances between the present syndrome and the post-infarctual syndrome of Dressler and Johnson's post-pericardiotomic syndrome are pointed out and it is suggested that complications of medical nature already described as being secondary to the installation of pacemakers, such as endocarditis and pericarditis, should be looked at from an autoimmune type of pathogenetic viewpoint.
(13) A study of gonadotrophin production in horses and donkeys bearing hybrid foals has yielded fascinating results about the immunology of pregnancy.
(14) Central to the whole project was a patient fascination with religion, represented, in particular, in his attempt to understand the revolutionary power of puritanism.
(15) The weeks ahead in Australia will likely be fascinating, exciting, distressing, emotional, anticipatory, and, at times, challenging .
(16) "She [Simpson] was one of the most stylish women of the day, and there is a lasting fascination with their lives together which shows no sign of going away," said Bryony Meredith, head of Sotheby's jewellery department.
(17) This has been a really fascinating half of football: the favourites finally showing some real class up front, the minnows digging deep in defence and occasionally breaking forward.
(18) But nevertheless Theco is a fascinating creature because of both its place in the history of palaeontology and what it reveals about the south-west of England in prehistoric times.
(19) The last several decades have seen a marked increase in our knowledge base regarding these fascinating envenomations and intoxications.
(20) The fascination of American and British scholars with each other's health care systems is a case study of the risks and benefits of the comparative approach.
Rapt
Definition:
() of Rap
() imp. & p. p. of Rap, to snatch away.
(a.) Snatched away; hurried away or along.
(a.) Transported with love, admiration, delight, etc.; enraptured.
(a.) Wholly absorbed or engrossed, as in work or meditation.
(a.) An ecstasy; a trance.
(a.) Rapidity.
(v. t.) To transport or ravish.
(v. t.) To carry away by force.
Example Sentences:
(1) This image has then been superimposed over another of her large and apparently rapt audience.
(2) There was a lot of rapt attention in the room,” said Illinois representative Adam Kinzinger.
(3) In Sacred Monsters , her 2006 duet with Akram Khan, she explored fluidity of Asian movement and the challenge of the spoken work: in Robert Lepage’s Eonnagata she moved towards experimental theatre, and in her subsequent collaborations with Maliphant she developed a rich new palette of rapt, inwardly focused dance.
(4) The high court in Pretoria, South Africa, sat in rapt silence as Steenkamp's words were heard in the case for the first time.
(5) Ronald Reagan’s Air Force One plane formed the backdrop as the candidates debated in front of a rapt audience, with hundreds of journalists in an adjacent media centre and “spin room” and a balmy sun setting over the valley.
(6) At its marvellous best, Seven Streams creates a rapt spell of mesmerising intensity."
(7) But the change of direction is signal – and worth watching with rapt attention.
(8) The former came during a technical rehearsal for Misterman in New York: Cillian Murphy , totally wrapped up in his role, was absorbed in talking to the sole character's mother on a tape-recorder while the production manager, Eamonn Fox, sat a few feet away raptly fixing a table leg.
(9) One segment, a detailed analysis of Arsenal’s recent loss to Chelsea , attracts rapt attention, and cheers at the conclusion.
(10) Only Chelsea supporters could have sat rapt in the Stamford Bridge lecture room.
(11) After a sobering interlude, children who had sat rapt at the sight of the moon landings grew up, and accepted that terraforming space – once briefly assumed to be easy – was actually really, really hard.
(12) Whatever he said, his very presence at such a tense time would have guaranteed rapt attention – one reason why his sermon was not, as is usual, broadcast live on state TV whose cameras are mounted permanently in the university mosque.
(13) They listened, rapt, to their hero, Viktor Yushchenko, whose handsome face had been ravaged by a recent dose of dioxin.
(14) When Drummond appears, the McDonald's workers listen to his introductory speech in a silence that could either be rapt (he's extremely charismatic) or just bewildered (the explanation is quite a convoluted one, involving recreating the sound of a choir that he could hear singing in his head).
(15) "I just finished the entirety of the Chinese military shovel video," writes a rapt Daniel Stauss, "and I must say, hats off to the gentleman at 2:04 who did a spectacular job of julienning that potato with a shovel.
(16) The commanding hand gestures quieten and she goes still, often looking intently at the table or at her hands, a picture of rapt attention.
(17) A wildly energetic performer, as comfortable on stage as on screen, Rivers was still playing to huge, packed auditoriums such as London’s Albert Hall as recently as 2012, where, at the age of 79, she performed for 11 nights to sellout crowds and rapt applause.
(18) And authentic in a way that kept the audience silent throughout - not because they were bored, but because they were rapt in attention.
(19) Beyoncé also made an unannounced appearance, leading a rapt audience of fans and music executives through a soaring singalong of her latest single XO.
(20) In fact, they appear to be rapt: there's something arresting about the fact that hardly anyone seems to be filming proceedings on their mobile phones, which makes it a fairly remarkable event in the annals of modern-day gig-going.