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Great artists major in defiance and minor in delusion: You will want to see what I have to offer, and love it, even if it is unfamiliar, disquieting and as ravishingly uncommercial as “Architecton.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025

Stephen Holden from the New York Times described the romantic period drama as "ravishingly beautiful".

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2023

This new version remains ravishingly entertaining, but is also, like the movie adaptations, a more obvious attempt to cash in on Pottermania.

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2021

Another sometime Mountain Goats contributor, Canada’s Owen Pallett, finally released his long-delayed album Island, which is ravishingly worth the wait.

From Slate • Dec. 4, 2020

“A ravishingly lovely lady, who exclaimed, with a cry of rapture, ‘At last!

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott