Adjective : a raving maniac. ,a raving beauty. From Dictionary.com.
Adverb : a remark that made me raving mad. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : Putting him in a straitjacket did not stop his ravings. From Dictionary.com.
They are all ravingly loonie far lefties down there. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Camp Responds To Hillary Barb] Reference
A woman as tall as most men, ravingly beautiful of face and figure, a fair shot with a bow. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Magnificent]
Back in about 1998, Camille Paglia described 'Vagina Monolgues' as a "ravingly anti-male" play. From Wordnik.com. [Congratulations to Jane Fonda!] Reference
Pleased, not because it's a ravingly positive review (it's not) but because of this paragraph (click on it for whole review). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference
She hissed the words, but it had been "ravingly beautiful" that made her face color, and the mention of her eyes that had clenched her fists. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Magnificent]
The first time I read The Thirteen Clocks I kind of liked it, and then I read it aloud to my wife, and now it is a book I am ravingly fannish about. From Wordnik.com. [mrissa: Books read, early January] Reference
The vignette of our times, ultimately revealing the irrelevance of our intellectual classes, is the rapturous acceptance of a "ravingly anti-male" play. From Wordnik.com. [Congratulations to Jane Fonda!] Reference
As for other points of view, here's a ravingly positive one, this one and this one are positive but more balanced, and this one makes a few other criticisms I'd mostly agree with. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-10] Reference
Daschle's officially in charge of food and pharmaceuticals in the US, btw, in case you're new to this blog, and in particular he'll have oversight of our ravingly deranged Food and Drug Administration. From Wordnik.com. [Can Daschle Be Confirmed Faster Than Salmonella Can Spread?] Reference
When I was in my twenties, working in a psychiatric hospital intensive care unit, with the most floridly, ravingly psychotic, literally screaming, crawlling the walls, seeing things, hearing voices, maniacs, there was a smell -- the smell of insanity. From Wordnik.com. ["Bush Victory" in Iraq, and Rising Scum Insanity] Reference
Of course, they were a lot less fun by Sunday evening, when I was ravingly hungry and just wanted something that looked like a substantial dinner, and the only thing in Germany or at least the part of town where I was that I could find to eat was? more latkes. From Wordnik.com. [The German Report - Danya Ruttenberg] Reference
The purchase/takeover of Idaho-based Hecla's workings near El Callao and overtures directed at Gold Reserve and other residual speculative players in Venezuela's currently-paralyzed gold mining sector seems schoolbook for the Russians, who are no longer the ravingly red communist allies that Chavez may fondly think they remain in his many-years friendship with Fidel Castro Ruz ... but that's another day's story!. From Wordnik.com. [Venezuela has simply become a mirror image of what went before ... corruption and malfeasance is at an all-time high!] Reference
There's quite the selection, but so far my favourite is this ravingly positive wartime propaganda film about the USSR. From Wordnik.com. [Progressive Bloggers] Reference
But the problem is that in hostile dioceses-dioceses with ravingly heretical bishops-I would assume that parishes could not connect to orthodox bishops in a meaningful way other than perhaps holding some kind of conference or something at which the bishop does not celebrate or whatever. From Wordnik.com. [Stand Firm] Reference
With this they held their peace, and all the inn was drowned in profound silence; only the innkeepers daughter and Maritornes were not asleep, but knowing very well Don Quixotes peccant humour, and that he was armed and on horseback without the inn keeping guard, both of them consorted together, and agreed to be someway merry with him, or at least to pass over some time in hearing him speak ravingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Fourth Book. XVI. Wherein Is Recounted the History of the Lackey, with Other Strange Adventures Befallen in the Inn] Reference
"ravingly anti-government and tremendously opposed to regulation"?. From Wordnik.com. [techPresident] Reference
Does this mean that Glenn Beck isn’t consistently ravingly bonkers for his entire show, as a few youtube clips would suggest?. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The ESPN Effect:] Reference
But the mere fact that he wasn’t ravingly anti-choice the entire time he was governor of a pro-choice state is enough to sour a lot of them, so they are refusing to support the one major candidate who actually shares their beliefs. From Wordnik.com. [This Is Starting to Look Good « Lean Left] Reference
And when you have fallen desperately, ravingly in love with such a creature, you will not have to come to me for further advice. ". From Wordnik.com. [A Black Adonis] Reference
Now ravingly she cried: The whelming main. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan] Reference
Imagine ravingly anti-female, anti-black, anti-muslim, and perhaps even ravingly anti-Jew. From Wordnik.com. [Congratulations to Jane Fonda!] Reference
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