Example sentences for: rapturous

How can you use “rapturous” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Malick's conception of consciousness distributes it among the animate and inanimate alike; almost every object is held up for rapturous contemplation.

  • With such rapturous scenery and a climate that is consistently delightful, perhaps it would be unfair to expect nature to have bestowed the island with miles of perfect sands as well.

  • The rest of the time he's a preening cock, fond of quoting (without irony) a rapturous critic: "I'm meee -rac-ulous."

  • An actress named Hilary Swank gives one of the most rapturous performances I've ever seen as the cross-dressing Brandon Teena (a k a Teena Brandon) in Kimberly Peirce's stark and astonishingly beautiful debut feature, Boys Don't Cry . The movie opens with Teena being shorn of her hated female tresses and becoming "Brandon," who swaggers around in tight jeans and leather jackets.

  • Whatever you make of Velvet Goldmine (opinions have ranged from rapturous to casually dismissive), it's like no other musical ever made.


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