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It helped that the films themselves, for all their excruciating longueurs, were ravishing.

From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2019

The developing harmonies of the all-female septet, “Why We Dance: Freedom,” with which it concluded Tuesday evening, to traditional music, were ravishing.

From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2017

And when she bathed songs such as Wolf’s “Verborgenheit: Lass, o Welt, o lass mich sein” and Strauss’s “Die Nacht” and “Morgen” in silvery floated tone, the results were ravishing.

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2017

His Vuillard-inspired designs for our production of Total Eclipse were ravishing.

From The Guardian • Apr. 1, 2013

The inflections of his voice in passages of tenderness were ravishing, and his utterance of anger and despair was terrible.

From Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Krehbiel, Henry Edward