(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.
Rapture
Definition:
(n.) A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence.
(n.) The state or condition of being rapt, or carried away from one's self by agreeable excitement; violence of a pleasing passion; extreme joy or pleasure; ecstasy.
(n.) A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.
(v. t.) To transport with excitement; to enrapture.
Example Sentences:
(1) Zuma, who had endured booing during Mandela's memorial service at this stadium, received a rapturous welcome as he entered to the sound of a military drumroll trailed by young, flag-waving majorettes.
(2) Meanwhile he is preparing a new double piano concerto by Kevin Volans with the Labèque sisters for a concert at the Edinburgh festival next week, and he tells me with a glint in his eye about ideas for the next two seasons: concert performances of Don Giovanni this October, more Brahms symphonies, and more Berlioz – an ambitious plan to realise the gigantic drama of Roméo and Juliette on a chamber-orchestral scale, following up his rapturously received performances of L'Enfance du Christ in February.
(3) No, what swung it for us was their debut album, An Awesome Wave, which has been rapturously received.
(4) Yet it can never hope to match yes campaigners’ vision, their powerful elixir of hope for a better future, which can spark feelings that are almost religious in their fervour, like the rapture of old Christian belief.
(5) "The destiny you seek lies in Europe," McCain told the crowd, to rapturous applause.
(6) Her agony and her rapture stay interior, and they flip-flop like nerves in this beautiful, grave black-and-white movie.
(7) Rocky: Das Musical , the stage adaptation of the much-loved Sylvester Stallone film , has opened to a rapturous critical reception in Hamburg.
(8) Sunderland’s right-back, Santiago Vergini, inadvertently gave Southampton the lead by lashing the ball into his own net in the 12th minute, and that signalled the start of a barmy encounter that had home fans in raptures and Sunderland in tatters.
(9) Obama received a rapturous welcome when he visited in 2010, though concrete results of the warmer relationship have been less obvious .
(10) Other artists on the list are Cindy Sherman (13), Gerhard Richter (16) and Steve McQueen (59), whose new film, 12 Years a Slave, has opened in the US to rapturous reviews and predicted Oscar success.
(11) These people stand at the edges of our avenues, of our streets, in deafening anonymity.” The passionate exhortation came hours after he addressed the United Nations , prayed at Ground Zero, visited a school in Harlem and cruised through Central Park, where 80,000 people greeted the 78-year-old Argentinean with rapture.
(12) In Palo Alto, a crowd of 4,000 responded rapturously to the senator’s speech.
(13) Once it was on the ground there was "immediately rapture, shouting and crying" among the 459 people on board, Waschbusch added.
(14) The first Latin American pontiff, who once worked with slum dwellers in his home city of Buenos Aires , Argentina, expressed solidarity with the residents of the Varginha favela in northern Rio de Janeiro, where he received a rapturous welcome.
(15) But it is Left Behind that continues to dominate the field, spawning spin-off products including – mind-bogglingly – a "kids' series" that has run to more volumes than the original saga, as well as books looking at the Rapture from the military point of view and even video games .
(16) Individual staffers have also rightfully apologized for their comments, and the DNC is taking appropriate action to ensure it never happens again.” The turning point came when Obama took to the stage, to a rapturous welcome from Democrats waving a sea of “Michelle” purple placards.
(17) And I was knocked sideways when you said, "Oh, shit", walked off and you walked back on again to rapturous applause and got it exactly right.
(18) At the appointed hour, we're informed, all true Christians will be snatched away and rapturously transported to heaven.
(19) Waving their hands, singing and praying together, the huge crowd joined in an often rapturous shared worship.
(20) With the stadium still in disbelieving raptures from the heroics of Jessica Ennis and Greg Rutherford, Farah took to the track to huge cheers knowing that at least a dozen of the 29-strong field were capable of mounting a serious challenge.