The word 'raptured' can be used correctly in written English.
It is usually used to refer to a feeling of intense joy or delight, such as when someone experiences a spiritual awakening. For example, I was raptured by the beauty of the sunset.
True, come Monday morning Tim Pawlenty probably will have to explain to values voters why he hasn't been Raptured, but he's become pretty good at extended apologies (any voters left to hear the explanation remain in this fallen world too, so perhaps they'll find some common ground).
Unfortunately, none of their merch was for sale.* But I'm told that getting Raptured hoovers you right out of your clothes, so tomorrow I might be able to find something just lying there crumpled on the street.
Many Christians who are helping Israel today are doing so to facilitate the moment when they believe they will be raptured into Heaven.
Talking heads on cable news try, and fail, to identify a coherent explanation for who was raptured and who was passed over; it was, it seems, a "random harvest".
The righteous are raptured up to heaven, while the rest (or at least most of the famous people in Hollywood) are swallowed up in fiery pits that open up in the ground, or pursued by scaly, oily, horned demons with enormous genitals.
The earth, some believe, will be destroyed in an all-consuming fire, whilst the godly will be raptured to heaven.
OS Map: Explorer 350 – Edinburgh: Musselburgh & Queensferry The lush woodlands of the Hermitage inspired Wordsworth, Mendelssohn and Turner to rapture.
He also states that this mystical consciousness has an ocean-like calmness, tranquillity, confidence and serenity (WWR, Section 71), adding that if one were to ask for a positive characterization of the mystical state, we could refer loosely to words and phrases such as "ecstasy," "rapture," "illumination" and "union with God".
Baudelaire described how it could "expand beyond all measures, stretch out the limitless, make rapture bottomless".
In Milan, was I imagining the residual raptures of 15th-century Christians?
His new project is this HBO adaptation of Tom Perrotta's novel which deals with the aftermath of the sudden rapture-like disappearance of 2% of the world's population.
