Examples of rapturous

• As the final chords rang round the auditorium, the entire school rose in rapturous applause; the tour had started well.

• Rapturous descriptions of the sights that awaited explorers at the top of a mountain are common in travelogues.

• The moon's rapturous form evaporates into "the flux of things," but not before inspiring an ideal vision of perfect beauty through perfect form.

• The orchestra agrees: it figures this rapturous statement as literally true.

• The initial material returns with soft-centred strings above hypnotic vibraphone f iguration and is sung to a close by the rapturous sound of bowed vibraphone chords.

• I agree that the applause at the end of my excellent speech was not rapturous.

• I am sure that he will be met with rapturous applause if he tells them that again.

• I was told that the viewers were positively rapturous.