You dream of what it once was and what it might be again, but mostly you like it just as it is, a glorious residence ravished by time and neglect, and probably still inhabited.
The first is the Hayne Train, or sometimes the Hayne Plane, a 6ft 220lb26-year-oldear-old superstar who, operating with runaway intelligence and strength from his spiritual home at the base of the Parramatta Eels' backline, has spent much of the past half-decade cutting a ravishing, at times resplendently arrogant, trail through defence after defence in the National Rugby League.
From the 1930s to the 1990s and beyond, he has been a keen and indefatigable observer of his nation and the ravishes of time it has lived through: it is all there one era after another in one tome after another, throbbing with life and immediacy.
Today, they stand in varying states of decay, ravished by time, vandals and wild weather.
They are a part of some new scene, which doesn't have a word yet, and which isn't necessarily as simply magical, revealing and ravishing as old time pop, and which fabricates the idea of magic, fun and excitement in ways that will seem very contrived, perfunctory and formulaic to older pop fans.
Her writing is brainy and at times ravishing.
Lindsay Crouse, Mamet's wife at the time, is ravishing as the shrink who gets caught up in one too many mind games.
During the first time he ravishes Gelhorn, she asks, "Is this what you want?" "It's what I need," he replies spreading her legs.
Elizabeth Paxton, many of whose works are lost, painted ravishing still lifes of moments in time -- a finished breakfast tray, a bedroom with shoes and sheets in sensual dishabille.
"Old Times" — which I had often regarded as a ravishing, melancholy conundrum– comes across this time as a vibrant, sometimes achingly clear comedy of the war that is waged in any relationship.
