It is sonorous, almost rapturous, a voice that could make any poetry -- offensive odes, sniveling sonnets, laboring lyrics -- sound sweet.
It hears in Orson Welles's voice astonishing, rapturous conviction, and the urge that may sweep a speaker off his flat feet.
"Suddenly I saw the most amazing person," she recalled, her voice becoming nearly rapturous.
They knew what they had nearly lost: the sun and the moon and the stars, cool air made sweet by plants and trees, the succulent foods that come from the soil, the sound of a child's voice; they were rapturous and joyful and deeply grateful.
But amid the critical acclaim and rapturous audiences, there are dissenting voices, who have noted Wilson's occasionally uncomfortable onstage presence – he suffers from stage fright, he says, a state of affairs compounded by the fact that the voices he hears get louder when he's onstage.
Irish cloggers were part of rapturous late-night revelry.
In Canto XXX, Dante reaches the earthly paradise and hears the voice of Beatrice; in his rapturous excitement, he turns to Virgil.
The school's founder, the polymath tycoon L. L. Nunn, was rapturous about what he described as "the voice of the desert" and disdainful of almost everything about society at the time, which included "sensual pleasure" and "girls".
The school's founder, the polymath tycoon L. L. Nunn, was rapturous about what he described as "the voice of the desert" and disdainful of almost everything about society at the time, which included "sensual pleasure" and "girls". "Gentlemen, for what came ye into the wilderness?" he wrote in a letter, in 1923.
