"She was a fanatic about cleanliness and put out her little bit of garbage wrapped very neatly in yesterday's Christian Science Monitor and tied in a bow with a fresh piece of string." (James Alan McPherson, "Gold Coast. Synonyms for RAPT: ecstatic, elated, elevated, enrapt, enraptured, entranced, euphoric, exhilarated Antonyms for RAPT: depressed, absent, absentminded, abstracted."There had always been a shoebox on top of the stove full of baby squirrels rescued from a fallen pine, tenderly wrapped in flannel and bottle-fed into independence." (Pam Durban, "Soon." The Southern Review, 1997).
"Jacqueline turned to the waiter and rattled off a sentence in German which brought to Charles's eyes a look of rapt admiration and the waiter, evidently understanding quite easily what she had said, turned and hurried away." (Edgar Wallace, The Mouthpiece, 1935).The miners were rescued in front of the world's media and a billion rapt viewers.In 'Thank Me Now,' he rapped about how he 'can relate to kids going straight to the league'-a reference to high-school players so talented they skip college basketball and go straight to the NBA." (Simon Reynolds, "How Drake Became the All-Pervading Master of Hyper-Reality Rap." The Guardian, April 28, 2016) "Drake’s ascendance happened so instantly it felt effortless, achieved without struggle, almost to the point of seeming unearned.She rapped her knuckles on the table while she waited, fretting out loud that the concept wouldn't work." (Jenna Wortham, "Zanele Muholi's Transformation." The New York Times Magazine, October 8, 2015) "After a few shots, Muholi removed the fruit basket from her head and sat down at the kitchen table to load the images into Photoshop.
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