I love the word ravishing - and I think it really fits the spirit of what I'm trying to get at. From Wordnik.com. [In Praise of Degradation] Reference
"She's what you might call ravishing," proclaimed Ruby. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose in the Ring] Reference
Your nose is bridged in that so-called ravishing way in order to let a stream of air into your lungs. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
Anderson, Anderson ... looking ravishing as usual. From Wordnik.com. [Dlisted - Be Very Afraid] Reference
With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere, Personal Recollections] Reference
The costumes by Eiko Ishioka, however, are ravishing. From Wordnik.com. [L'AMOUR FROM CRADLE TO COFFIN] Reference
From her own book, I found Caroline Knapp to be ravishing. From Wordnik.com. [Jesse Kornbluth: Caroline & Gail: Best Friends. Caroline Dies. Gail Writes An Exquisite Book About Her.] Reference
A ravishing smile banished Annabel's look of sullen resentment. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
Fan shot the movie himself, and his images are absolutely ravishing. From Wordnik.com. [Taking 'Last Train Home' Shows Changes In China] Reference
Georgy Lenox was there, radiant in a ravishing toilette, waiting for. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
"Well, I don't see that you had such a ravishing time, anyway," cried. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Stewart at School] Reference
The women, all ravishing, hurl themselves at the hero, who beds most of them. From Wordnik.com. [A Summer Book Bag] Reference
Sometimes she was moved to unexpected tears by his ravishing, dangerous beauty. From Wordnik.com. [The Bludgeoning of a Burgeoning Young Artist] Reference
The man, spell-bound, stood where he was, listening to the ravishing music of the. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
Jacquet's movie is as visually ravishing as "Winged Migration," and more gripping. From Wordnik.com. [SNAP JUDGMENT: MOVIES] Reference
Fonteyn was 42, the epitome of British style at its most genteel and gently ravishing. From Wordnik.com. [Sleeping Beauty] Reference
The ravishing beauty of the Fairy lady forms a prominent feature in all these legends. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
Kate Winslet never looked more ravishing than when she wore a gray gown at the 2010 Oscars. From Wordnik.com. [Vivian Diller, Ph.D.: Four Tips to Feel Beautiful at Any Age] Reference
But no homework is required to appreciate the ravishing images of this fable on the theme of fraternity. From Wordnik.com. [Final Chapter: A Triumphant Splash Of 'Red.'] Reference
Visually ravishing and exquisite, "The Piano" is Campion's visually poetic ode to our unspoken emotions. From Wordnik.com. [John Farr: A Woman's Touch: Ten Great Films From Female Directors] Reference
They are of all stages of growth, from earliest budhood up to the ravishing beauty of the "last rose of summer.". From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
Then she lifted her dark eyes shyly to Captain Clarke and with a ravishing smile bade him welcome in broken English. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
Like the best of Wong's work ( "Chungking Express," "In the Mood for Love"), "The Follow" is ravishing and mysterious. From Wordnik.com. [Best Sex Scene, Most Pointless Tv Cliffhanger, Worst Line In A Movie] Reference
She -- Julia Roberts -- is a ravishing, uneducated Oakland girl in short skirts who gets a job tending to a dying young man. From Wordnik.com. [Pretty Woman Does A Weepie] Reference
Ms. Macdonald is ravishing — as is her performance — in the role of an Irish immigrant with whom Nucky becomes involved. From Wordnik.com. [When America Went Dry] Reference
When the Emir retired, Azgid was left alone with the fair Perizide, and was struck more than ever with her ravishing beauty. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
The Saw Lady, she of the fiery eyes and the ravishing, flaming-red Pre-Raphaelite locks, took to the saw some two decades ago. From Wordnik.com. [Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Saw Lady] Reference
On the other: Aleksandra Kosteniuk, a ravishing, dark-haired 18-year-old wearing a tight black blouse and sleek, flowing pants. From Wordnik.com. [The Chess Goddess] Reference
Her paintings are ravishing in their high-chrome tangles of peacock, ochre, cobalt and cerulean and in their hazy air of bliss. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Creed: Down Over Up; Richard Wright: The Stairwell Project; Joan Mitchell] Reference
"Diving Bell" is something else: ravishing to look at, mercifully unsentimental, blissfully avoiding almost every cliché of the genre. From Wordnik.com. [The Mind-Body Problem] Reference
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