(1) The "institution", still in her teens, in ravishing close-ups, was now driving Montgomery Clift to murder his pregnant girlfriend in George Stevens's A Place in the Sun.
(2) Rameau reminded his readers that mathematics is as important in music as it is in astronomy, and saw no conflict between the charts and formulae that fill his treatise and his ravishing operas and instrumental music.
(3) To your left appears one of the most ravishing curves of golden sand you will ever see.
(4) As with all Hawthorne's fantastic stories, and especially those written for Mosses , like "The Bosom Serpent" or "The Birth-Mark" (in which a husband becomes so obsessed with his otherwise ravishing wife's single blemish that he resolves to remove it at whatever cost), there is more going on here than an exercise in the ornamental grotesque.
(5) The only objectionable thing is his determined use of the word "ravish", that split second of ambiguity.
(6) Then the food starts arriving: innovative and ravishing.
(7) South Africa held its first multiracial election 20 years ago on Sunday, defying bombs, bluster and the threat of civil war to conjure a spectacle of voters in long, winding lines that ravished the world.
(8) There's a danger of anachronism here - it feels like a very modern civil partnership – as there is too with the boys' habit of saving slave girls, spoils of war, from ravishment by their fellow soldiers by claiming them chastely for themselves, and promising earnestly never to kill unarmed men.
(9) As for the future of Diana, the second sister born in 1910, it's only necessary to take a look at the series of family group photographs that dot the various Mitford compendia: a ravishing blonde Elspeth at 12, metamorphosing into a steely Nordic heartbreaker of 19, the age at which she escaped the shackles of family life through marriage to the likeable but apparently uninspiring son of a Tory grandee.
(10) The show’s most memorable lines have come from her – whether it’s telling 16-year-old Lauren Platt, after she had sung How Will I Know, “I’m so excited right now I could slap you”, or suggesting she’d be up for mud wrestling with Fernandez-Versini (“That’s quite hot, I’d like to do that”), or telling Ben Haenow he made her want to go home and ravish her husband.
(11) Henri Fantin-Latour is forgotten compared with his friend Manet but his pink-tinged flower paintings are ravishing.
(12) His unsayable thing about women is that they [we] all want to be ravished.
(13) The hit single Starman brought instant success for the album, while Bowie’s ravishing stage costumes and sexually provocative performances (following his carefully timed claim in a Melody Maker interview that he was gay) triggered fan enthusiasm unseen since Beatlemania.
(14) The galleries have taken seven years to fill with more than 1,800 ravishing objects.
(15) They (we) have ravishment fantasies, because it means "if you enjoy it, it's not your fault".
(16) He knew the ravishing speed and the split-second timing of his punches were fractionally out of kilter.
(17) (1974); and, as Charles Underhill, he produced two 17th-century romps featuring Captain Fantom, a soldier of fortune described in John Aubrey's Brief Lives as a "great ravisher".
(18) I think, for me at least, it’s the humour – quietly visual, where a joke might be the way Duck ravishes a slice of bread – and the way its tone avoids the usual force-feed of bonhomie.
(19) They are led by the two US trade papers Variety and the Hollywood Reporter; while neither are acclaiming Magic in the Moonlight as a Blue Jasmine level late-masterpiece, Variety is considerably kinder , with its chief film critic Scott Foundas describing the film as "a high-spirited bauble that goes down easy thanks to fleet comic pacing, a surfeit of ravishing Cote d’Azur vistas and the genuinely reactive chemistry of stars Colin Firth and Emma Stone".
(20) That's so ravishing, to be that young and see subculture."
Violator
Definition:
(n.) One who violates; an infringer; a profaner; a ravisher.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The disrespect embodied in these apparent mass violations of the law is part of a larger pattern of seeming indifference to the constitution that is deeply troubling to millions of Americans in both political parties," he said.
(2) As long as Israel refuses to cease settlement activities and to the release of the fourth group of Palestinian prisoners in accordance with our agreements, they leave us no choice but to insist that we will not remain the only ones committed to the implementation of these agreements, while Israel continuously violates them,” Abbas said.
(3) Méndez said that while his office was currently "getting so much business from the United Kingdom", the manner in which the country's government responds to complaints about human rights violations had what he described as a "precedent-setting potential" for other states.
(4) The absence of proliferation control violates the general assumption that idiotypic interactions play an important role in immune regulation.
(5) Considerations of different ways of obtaining informed consent, determining ways of minimizing harm, and justifications for violating the therapeutic obligation are discussed but found unsatisfactory in many respects.
(6) If figurative language is defined as involving intentional violation of conceptual boundaries in order to highlight some correspondence, one must be sure that children credited with that competence have (1) the metacognitive and metalinguistic abilities to understand at least some of the implications of such language (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980; Nelson, 1974; Nelson & Nelson, 1978), (2) a conceptual organization that entails the purportedly violated conceptual boundaries (Lange, 1978), and (3) some notion of metaphoric tension as well as ground.
(7) Russia may be on the point of walking out of a major cold war era arms-control treaty, Russian analysts have said, after President Obama accused Moscow of violating the accord by testing a cruise missile .
(8) As for his detention following a possible conviction … although Mr Aswat would have access to mental health services regardless of which prison he was be detained in, his extradition to a country where he had no ties and where he would face an uncertain future in an as yet undetermined institution, and possibly be subjected to the highly restrictive regime in ADX Florence, would violate article 3 of the convention."
(9) Earlier this week, the government granted another £78m to keep coal plants open next year – including £10m for Aberthaw, which has repeatedly violated emissions limits, according to a European court ruling last September .
(10) It imposes a standard of logical reductionism and methodological purity that not only violates the nature of psychoanalytic knowledge, but imposes an invalid standard of verification and scientific confirmation.
(11) These issues include the desirability of including adolescents and both pregnant and nonpregnant women in the trial, the use of unapproved control regimens, problems with antimicrobial susceptibility testing due to inadequate methodology and the need for prompt treatment, the need to assess agents for treatment of syndromes of unknown microbial etiology, toxicity considerations related to the use of single-dose regimens, management of the sexual partners of the participants in the trial, analysis of data despite the high frequency of minor protocol violations, sexual reexposure to infection during the trial, and the potential for loss, alteration, or falsification of data because of the relative simplicity of the usual protocol design and the diagnostic reliance on specimens that are routinely discarded.
(12) All the Palestinian allegations that this is a violation are an attempt to create an artificial crisis.
(13) The author focuses on political and human rights violations, particularly in the Ciskei homeland, in a discussion of the difficulties of blacks in travel, earning a living, farming, and obtaining health care.
(14) Frances' highest administrative court ruled that the French government exceeded its authority in ordering the distribution of RU 497 (mifepristone), but ruled that French abortion law, allowing abortions in the 1st 10 weeks in "situations of distress," did not violate international treaties guaranteeing the "right to life."
(15) It would have been known as the Office of Congressional Complaint Review, and the rule change would have required that “any matter that may involve a violation of criminal law must be referred to the Committee on Ethics for potential referral to law enforcement agencies after an affirmative vote by the members”, according to the office of Representative Bob Goodlatte, a Republican from Virginia who pushed for the change.
(16) Coming shortly after the regime's successful third nuclear weapons test, Rodman's public declaration that he was Kim's "friend for life ", and the young premier's ability to parade his western visitors on state media, angered critics who argued that the country's ghastly poverty and brutal human rights violations were inadequately reflected.
(17) The US president, Barack Obama, did likewise, even though Modi was barred from the country less than 10 years ago under a law preventing entry to foreigners who had committed "particularly severe violations of religious freedom", Associated Press reported.
(18) The long-term (1-year) effect of complete violation of the supracrestal connective tissue attachment was examined in beagle dogs.
(19) The 61-year-old Canadian, who was one of the original founders of Greenpeace , was arrested last Sunday at Frankfurt airport at the request of Costa Rica, which wants to see him extradited over a 10-year-old charge of "violating ships traffic".
(20) Iran has vowed to retaliate against the ISA extension, passed unanimously on Thursday, saying it violated last year’s agreement with six major powers to curb its nuclear programme in return for lifting of international financial sanctions.