Examples of rapture

• Through its rhythmic fashioning, poetry will bring about the ultimate "ascent of man," the "loftier raptures, loftier pain" by which humankind will realize its place in the world.

• His first fine raptures have quite worn out over tariffs.

• The rapporteur goes into raptures about bringing the benefits of competition into the sector concerned.

• Every urban child who goes away to camp does not go into raptures over the experience that he has, during the first day of two at any rate.

• Whom else from raptures road will you expel tonight?

• Where first begin, or with due raptures swell?

• The resistance weakens and the position is raptured.

• The revelers may also improvise songs of realization ("caryagiti") to express their heightened clarity and blissful raptures in spontaneous verse.