In his live performances he is a master of that kind of conviction: his most recent show, at Radio City Music Hall in New York, a staging of his latest album Swanlights, saw him bathed in the green glow of lasers, accompanied by a 60-piece orchestra while keening rapturously about a vision of "being dead, underwater and filled with crystals of light".
Applause and derision greeted the news that the European Union had won the 2012 Nobel peace prize, with British Eurosceptics dismissing the award as a "farce" and EU leaders rapturously welcoming a boost to the bloc's sagging self-esteem.
In Leeds, the music students greet Miliband's announcement about tuition fees rapturously.
It was received rapturously in the hall.
He was rapturously received on tours in China and Japan, where he urged people to counter Western imperial might and material with sacrifice and an Asian spiritualism.Yet Tagore was more often rejected.
David's books were not so much cooking manuals as guides to the kind of food people might well wish to eat.The American culinary cognoscenti received "Mediterranean Food" just as rapturously as British readers.
They are, to varying degrees, millenarians: they believe that something tumultuous and new is on its way, and they rapturously welcome it: the world, they think, can be made a better place.
Overjoyed, the crowd in the courtroom leapt to their feet rapturously.
They were greeted rapturously in America in the 1960s.
He was rapturously received.Nationalism is easier on a full stomach and Mr Ahmadinejad is the rare and fortunate president who expects to receive, over the coming Iranian year, some $36 billion in oil export revenues to help buy loyalty.
Initially, at least, they greeted the news rapturously.
