Example Sentences

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Hughes’s paintings are ravishing merely as color-blending exercises, but their layered depths have poignant human significance.

From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2021

Her “Landscape Portraits,” for instance, are ravishing, the latest in a series of photograms made by placing thin sheets of wood veneer on photo-sensitive paper.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2020

Polidori’s images, some of which stand six feet high, are ravishing meditations on the concepts of transience and decay, the cracked and peeling walls revealing layers of history.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 12, 2016

“Serenade” contains drama, but it simply happens to them as if it were far larger than they can comprehend; their lack of sentimentality and their cool, brisk immersion in the moment are ravishing.

From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2014

It is a magnificent place, and certainly the grounds are ravishing.

From Thelma by Corelli, Marie