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"rapt" Definitions
  1. so interested in one particular thing that you are not aware of anything else

535 Sentences With "rapt"

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But Cercas stays in the room — rapt or repelled.
Ms. Hathaway, though, holds you rapt with raw, trembling emotion.
She is a rapt audience of one, floating in space.
The rest of us will be waiting with rapt anticipation.
He is a talker, and I am his rapt audience.
You can dip in almost anywhere and be held rapt.
Thousands of letters and messages poured in from rapt Tunisians.
Disorder keeps the spotlight on you and the audience rapt.
Chinese officials have been watching the issue with rapt attention.
A fellow solder on the left is rapt in anticipation.
Everyone was back in their seats and rapt for her performance.
People stayed, attention held rapt for the duration of each film.
For the first half of the movie, I was pretty rapt.
The studios want everyone ready in their seats, rapt with anticipation.
"They knew what was coming," he said to a rapt audience.
What is Jay talking about, and why is everyone so rapt?
This tale, Freedman informed the rapt, giggling audience, was complete bullshit.
Morrison paused and smiled broadly as she surveyed her rapt audience.
Two hundred men and women knelt in rapt and reverential silence.
We watch, rapt, under a free blanket I got in 2013.
Wray manages to nearly always hold a skeptical reader rapt, however.
Wright was rapt, his hands pressing his headphones into his head.
You watch, rapt, as the hostility drains from Ms. Melville's face.
In Sacramento, he addressed rapt audiences of parents at private schools.
OM turned their lives around, they say, and the audience is rapt.
People watching the live stream of the party on Weibo were rapt.
One rapt guerrilla said he had never been to a concert before.
But, in truth, we'd been rapt since Donald Glover took the stage.
As he watched, rapt, nine objects flew through the air in formation.
Tablet light, phone light, laptop light flicker on our slack, rapt gazes.
Her sets often started with curious audiences and ended with rapt ones.
The fans sat in rapt silence, periodically bursting into shouts and cheers.
I wish she'd printed it and added a rapt, mean little postscript.
This holiday season, the Kardashians have given us the gift of rapt anticipation.
The rest remained rapt, pointing at the whale as it was sliced apart.
Around the world, but especially in the United States, people are watching, rapt.
The hundreds of us on the volcano were watching, rapt, shivering and breathless.
Kaltura is expanding its enterprise video platform with the acquisition of Rapt Media.
As he played, she kept her eyes glued to him in rapt adoration.
Now he has the national stage and the rapt audience he always craved.
For an hour onscreen, his sweaty, wide-eyed face held the room rapt.
So many scenes, like this one, had me rapt in a weird fugue.
They need not require rapt attention, but they should be delicious and refreshing.
Whenever this Hamlet sees his father's ghost, his face turns rapt and wondrous.
There's a growing community of medical influencers who have captured a rapt audience.
He toured Australia and the United States, reciting his poetry to rapt audiences.
It is also a cathartic force generating rapt engagement and carnivalesque freedom and delight.
Your mom always sits up a bit more rapt when Andrew's on the screen.
We sat rapt in front of the TV, watching creepy story after creepy story.
But somehow the rapt silence that follows this unheard revelation is deeply, warmly comforting.
Toward the front of the plaza, mourners packed themselves in, rapt by the eulogies.
What I most noticed, though, was how rapt the Czech audience was, including children.
This would not be a notable problem had Ms. Lázaro's play compelled rapt attention.
The great thing was simply to see it played, before a rapt, tense crowd.
Using the "P" in PARIS, 25D could be RAPT ... and there you have it.
It was a Friday night and the audience was rapt, with many taking notes.
Film scholars have written long on the power of a face to keep viewers' rapt.
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"It's time for America to repent," Ms. King said, before a fervent and rapt crowd.
Then they appear again and you watch with the rapt attention of a woman possessed.
But the unsettling world that designer Yoko Taro's built has me playing with rapt attention.
I listened to the first few episodes of that show in rapt interest and intrigue.
To my rapt 9-year-old gaze, her triumph felt like a sudden, unexpected gift.
The chamber, which bustled with activity during almost every other speech, was rapt in attention.
Ms. Walls, 60, who is white, was there with her 16-year-old grandson, rapt.
TechCrunch Sessions events attract to the stage specialists in their industries speaking to rapt audiences.
I eventually did — stood, rapt, gazing at the Great Mosque's walls in sunlight and moonlight.
My gadget-addicted 13-year-old was rapt, alternately laughing and gasping at the stunts.
Just take "recognizing the need for a higher power" in the 12-step RAPt drugs program.
Instead, at the matinee attended, a rapt audience responded to each narrative curveball with mounting enthusiasm.
Inside, a lone diner with greased-back hair was watching the Eurovision semifinals with rapt attention.
Some of her everyday decisions led to rapt headlines by a curious — or exploitative — tabloid press.
He, unlike most of his Republican colleagues, seems to have paid rapt attention to Ford's testimony.
Tavi Gevinson, the actress currently appearing on Broadway in "The Crucible," was gazing in rapt silence.
By the way, my rapt viewing of "A Quiet Place" happened in an ordinary suburban multiplex.
She paid rapt attention to everything he said, he who all his life had been ignored.
You are, by now, surely, convinced that beets are delightfully festive and deserve your rapt attention.
Mr. Boyd was rapt by the words of the speaker, Jennifer Jones Austin, FPWA's chief executive.
In an Instagram video his mother shared, "Spurgie" watches the show on a laptop with rapt attention.
So will catastrophists, or anyone else rapt by what feels like a hastening pace of global disaster.
"Dear Comrades," he begins, delivering his lecture to a rapt audience in his upper class English accent.
"I've had access to things I never would have otherwise," Mr. Ryan, 30, told his rapt listeners.
We can lend that effort more credibility or less by paying rapt attention to it or not.
This culture helped recruiting, it helped retention, and it kept the public and regulators rapt with admiration.
Google's culture helped recruiting, it helped retention, and it kept the public and regulators rapt with admiration.
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live," adult Jennifer tells her rapt students at one point.
Some have taken a seat and suddenly confessed to sexual peccadilloes; others have fallen into rapt silence.
Even when it's celebratory, that wail is barbed, erupting from a place rapt and courageous and subterranean.
From the opening moments of the first étude, in A flat, Ms. Rana had the audience rapt.
"Man on the moon!" cried Walter Cronkite on CBS television news, gasping, while the world watched, rapt.
My husband was rapt, wanting every detail, even though he would see me in a few hours.
I listened, rapt, as professional trainers explained how they taught dolphins to flip and elephants to paint.
If these companies want our cash and kids' rapt attention, parents need to demand they do more.
A rapt audience of colleagues will likely gather around your wise words, enthralled to hear you wax futuristically.
"I will try not to cry, but I'm being vulnerable with you all," she told the rapt crowd.
With reporters rapt but ultimately dismissive of the event, we all moved onto the next viral oddity — mostly.
At TechCrunch Disrupt, thousands of rapt attendees watch great interviews onstage only to feel a bit disappointed. Why?
The scale of the defeat matters to more than just politics nerds (although, we admit, we are rapt).
My kernel of new insight launched me into a rapt curiosity about the internal lives of elderly people.
Meanwhile, voters outside a rapt Pennsylvania rally were getting their first look at his long-secret tax returns.
The crowd, of several thousand delegates and party donors and hacks, nonetheless listened rapt, and sometimes cheered wildly.
Rapt Media was founded in 2011 and has raised $12 million in funding from investors including Boulder Ventures.
In the ballroom, she listened with apparently rapt attention to remarks by a long procession of state officials.
Clinton, describing for a rapt audience their courtship and early marriage — and their upward climb together in politics.
For months now, Canadians have followed the Nafta negotiations with the rapt attention normally reserved for hockey playoffs.
Animal horn and moss centerpieces adorned tables of 10, where everyone sat rapt for much of the afternoon.
Van Hove began to speak — so quietly that it was difficult to hear — and the cast was rapt.
The subtle grays of Velázquez and the rapt quietness of still-lifes by Giorgio Morandi strongly influenced her.
Lawmakers sat rapt while Yovanovitch described an almost cinematic tale of the circumstances of her ousting in May.
She then stared, rapt, as El Mago shed his joyful mask and addressed a spirit from his past.
The event was sold out, and the audience, filled with Lonergan aficionados, was rapt as the story unspooled.
I was rapt until the bowl was empty and his sugarcoated golden crowns had turned the milk to syrup.
We see what they choose to share, not what their exes or extortionists release, knowing a rapt audience awaits.
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For four seasons, fictional news anchor Mary Jane Paul has hypnotized a rapt Tuesday night audience with her antics.
On Monday, the former president held the attention of a rapt crowd as he recalled his memories of Sept.
The audience, mostly Russian-speaking from the conversations I heard around me before the show began, sat rapt throughout.
The Iranians beat the South Koreans 1-0, normally a cause for rapt joy for the home-team crowd.
Were you so RAPT by all the food that you thought this was about caramel and its finishing note?
America is sitting there, rapt, watching a battle between two people whose lives as they knew them seemed over.
The world is rapt by A.I. and the way it could be used to transform all kinds of industries.
I mean, at the pinnacle of his fame — a rapt audience of diehard fans looking on — he dozed off.
Before rapt audiences, these "mesmerists" used carefully choreographed gestures to lull their subjects into a state of credulous obedience.
At the same time, the Danes have no trouble stepping outside worldly realms and into zones of rapt contemplation.
Hosts can discuss whatever they want, usually for a rapt audience of in-car drivers and on-train commuters.
She remembered sitting in school back in Myanmar listening in rapt attention to her teacher who narrated Malala's story.
ATHENS (Reuters) - Forty years after her death, the personal life of opera great Maria Callas still has a rapt audience.
For the past two weeks, political commentators have been rapt over the state of the two presidential candidates' aging bodies.
On Sunday, while the American public was rapt in the Super Bowl, an astonishing sight came into focus in Romania.
The more urgent question question is why Soph found such a rapt audience — and how YouTube helped her build it.
A little later, at a school next door, Klobuchar kept a slightly smaller group in rapt attention until the end.
A young woman in a movie theater stares rapt at a racially charged scene in the The Imitation of Life.
Her sister Nur Jahan found her a copy of Keller's autobiography, and she read it with the same rapt admiration.
For the sublime is punctured by egotism, by the rapt, hard, small beak of my self demanding to be me.
On one particular evening before a rapt audience, he improvised a scene involving a Polynesian volcanologist gripped with social embarrassment.
Midge effectively hijacks dinner parties to workshop her jokes, to the point where other guests must sit rapt in silence.
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That added additional drama to the negotiations, which Canadians have followed with the rapt attention normally reserved for hockey playoffs.
I shifted my position in the wicker gondola and watched, rapt, as the sun peeked above the silhouetted limestone range.
Mr. Modi made the announcement to a rapt nation just weeks before the country heads into a hotly contested election.
Malcolm listened, alongside a rapt audience, as King gave a speech in Harlem shortly after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.
She follows their progress attentively, on her face a look of rapt contentment — and just the shadow of a smile.
But when they first saw the babies, both gazed out the window, rapt, afraid one would fall through the grate.
Mr. Irving was known for holding cast members at the York Theater rapt with his decades' worth of backstage stories.
I've saved the breakfast mini with mortadella for last, although it's been the subject of the most rapt online attention.
The aim of the mock scenario is to teach rapt foreign visitors how to deal with an attack on a market.
Tall, with long bleach blonde hair, weathered skin, and ringed eyeliner, P-orridge inspired rapt attention throughout their hour-long lecture.
Some parents find him cloying and others are thankful he keeps their children rapt and teaches them a thing or two.
Go to a rave, and you'll find people glassy-eyed, staring inches from each other's faces in rapt conversation, Heifets says.
At the back of the room, ushers from the nun-themed drag troupe the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence watched him, rapt.
Imagine him peering past theatre footlights through clouds of cigar smoke, checking that every row is full and each face rapt.
They know that keeping controversy alive extracts loyalty from a rapt audience, enriching their multi-million dollar music and merchandising empires.
"In my career I never saw a kid with so much natural talent, confidence, charisma," Collins says to a rapt crowd.
The first shot is from inside a peep-show machine: we are the camera, gazing into her eyes, rapt and aroused.
Residents said the rapt silence on the city's streets was like nothing they had ever experienced before on the Eid festival.
Dawson's rapt attention to conspiracy theories has started discussion about the role that YouTubers play in spreading disinformation on the platform.
An artist's rendition of The Wheel was projected on the screen, while the audience paid rapt attention to Marin's every word.
As the song progressed, more treble and sunlight crept in; by the end the room was silent and rapt around him.
But during the impeachment trial, his soothing tones have the vast majority of senators rapt as they sit at their desks.
The piano's tone is pristine, the articulation clean, the balance between the hands immaculate, the overall tenor both spirited and rapt.
Mr. Gyllenhaal invests every note he sings with the rapt determination of someone trying to capture and pin down the elusive.
Watching a time-delayed recording of Ford's emotional testimony aboard Air Force One on Thursday, Trump remained rapt -- and largely quiet.
Another caveman walked into the circle of light and proceeded to hold me and my fellow cave people rapt with narrative.
Earlier this year, as a group of U.S. senators sat rapt before him, John Sopko decided to go for the goats.
This year, thanks to a barrage of leaks, everyone knew what was coming, more or less, but we all watched anyway. Rapt.
So it becomes this balance between fun and emotion, which is why the room goes silent and is rapt when Williamson speaks.
"Demand for GoPro is better than it's ever been," Nick Woodman explained to a rapt audience at GoPro's mountain press conference yesterday.
Erivo learned this herself — felt it — when she sang "Silent Night" to a rapt audience at a Christmas pageant at age 5.
His platform and fame allow him a unique opportunity to set trends within his industry and speak to a wide, rapt audience.
A cast of memorable characters, many with doping pasts who have been caught in grand lies, would have had the room rapt.
It features a super-cute, blue, g-shaped teacher explaining trigonometry, the planets, the water cycle, and more to her rapt students.
Some have a kickabout, some drink tinnies, many wait with rapt attention in front of the massive stage erected for the squad.
So, here is Schur unveiling the events leading up to the stunning twist to a rather rapt Jamil, Carden, Jacinto, and Harper.
The "Pathétique" drew merited if misplaced applause from a rapt audience, not only after the rousing third movement but also in midfinale.
"I ended up putting all the money in," Musk said — repeating the beats of his biography for a rapt and silent audience.
Animators Alexandre Louvenaz, Maggie RAPT, Cool 3D World, Andre Kasay, and Julian Glander had to have been there, because they get it.
Since Ms. Ardern became prime minister in 2017, Australian women's magazines have watched her closely, often with a sense of rapt wonder.
Rereleased in 1998, that new version of "Touch of Evil" was finally greeted with the rave reviews and rapt audiences it deserved.
She has that ability, unique to the great performers in every art form, to hold one rapt from the moment she appears.
Addressing a rapt audience of around 50 people, she described living for many years in fear of her husband's bursts of rage.
"I never even knew the swamp was this bad," Mr. Trump, who frequently attends high-dollar donor events, told the rapt crowd.
" Cusk "has that ability, unique to the great performers in every art form, to hold one rapt from the moment she appears.
If she has even one rapt fan listening to her, then you can mouth, "Excuse me!" as you slink away to freedom.
In the grill room, a semicircle of members, still wearing their own green jackets, stood rapt before a flatscreen in the corner.
" Though it bent (and blew) the minds of rapt audiences with its elusive opalescence nearly three decades ago, David Henry Hwang's "M.
In the video, posted by YouTuber Thiione, a rapt audience loudly cheers on the squirrel as it closes out a spectacular show.  Delightful!
"If you can't treat someone with dignity and respect, then get out," he told the 4,000 cadets who were standing in rapt attention.
Amma stands before a rapt audience wearing hats and pastels, and reenacts the violent sexual assault at the center of Wind Gap's founding.
SHOPS CLOSED Residents said the rapt silence on the citys streets was like nothing they had ever experienced before on the Eid festival.
But, while the audience in the arena paid rapt attention throughout his speech, its effectiveness to the broader public was open to question.
I could feel the electricity in the room, that feeling of rapt totally-into-it attention, but no one was disruptive about it.
Sitting down to a steak dinner that she only half ate, she appeared rapt as percolating numbers from "On Your Feet!" were performed.
I continue to watch rapt at how this murder drama treats so many of its helpless characters and the grounded world around them.
Last weekend, Beyoncé "obliterated" a rapt, mostly white audience at Coachella when she became the first black woman to headline the musical festival.
It was so alluring, so rapt and yet so full of tension, that it was a pity it had to end at all.
By bringing together composers from Bach to Barber who spanned three centuries, Mr. Barnatan created an historical public domain for his rapt listeners.
When Chance the Rapper walks into a room in Chicago, he commands the rapt attention presumably reserved for someone like President Barack Obama.
He rocked through a regional version of his stump speech, sprinkled with Spanish, that drew laughs here, applause there, but mostly rapt silence.
" To a rapt Congress, he outlined the details of the armistice, and announced, at long last, "The war thus comes to an end.
But the solo quickly gained their rapt attention—setting down their drinks, they swayed their arms gently in time to the ballad. ♦
She's even repeated it in front of a rapt crowd of international diplomats at the U.N. Now in 213, Thunberg hasn't let up.
Either way, we have plenty of recommendations that will keep your attention rapt — nothing makes you focus more than having to read subtitles.
Our older son had read them already, but as the miles flew by he was just as rapt as the rest of us.
I watched, rapt, as the Ruins of Friendship Orchestra performed a lilting, wandering, live score replete with harp, strings, banjo, and ethereal vocals.
The quiet announcement came as an anti-climax to the rising oratory of summing up arguments that held jury and audience in rapt attention.
I caught sight of an older woman, perhaps in her seventies, standing and watching the young dancers with an expression of rapt, unfiltered joy.
While Amy and I typically avoid walking around with shared earbuds, eyes glued dorkily to a screen in our hands, we were soon rapt.
While the snarling tigers held the audience rapt, a performance by donkeys — they hopped over sedentary llamas — lacked a how-did-they-do-that?
But on Tuesday, it was the sound of shoes on wooden platforms that kept the audience rapt for nearly three-quarters of an hour.
This includes the woodland idyll in which Rosamund and her handsome stranger consummate their love, while a voyeuristic Goat looks on in rapt silence.
A lover of all aesthetics futuristic, Zhestkov is rapt with what technology is and what it will become, and it shows in Perpetual Path.
"Saturday Night Live" went on the air when Louis-Dreyfus was in high school, and she watched it with her family every week, rapt.
Romo retired from the Dallas Cowboys, went to work as a football announcer and developed a rapt following for his oracular deconstruction of games.
The Mass celebrated by Francis drew the rapt attention of as many as a million people, according to estimates by the local news media.
Her largely white audience liked the pitch, responding with rapt silence and then with raucous applause when she talked candidly about her own accomplishments.
"Certainly, misogyny played a role" in her defeat, she told a rapt, partisan crowd at the Women in the World summit meeting in April.
At a time when so many experts (climate scientists, epidemiologists, round-earthers) are being ignored, these ASMRtists are enjoying the rapt attention of millions.
JZ: It's certainly lighter on elected officials than any I've seen personally, and I've been watching these in rapt attention since age 6 (1980).
"Trump is on his hero's journey right now," Kanye said during an Oval Office visit in October, in a rambling visit watched rapt by reporters.
While this network of subject and object appears throughout Mayröcker's oeuvre, it takes on rapt poignance in a book framed by conversation with Hölderlin/Scarandelli.
A company will also sometimes hold on to bad news and share it when an unrelated massive news story breaks and has everyone's rapt attention.
They followed my finger, rapt, as I pointed from letter to letter until I finally spelled out, 'Did you see Hello My Name is Doris.
Companies and bureaucrats need the constant pressure of a rapt audience to make self-driving cars happen quickly, but they won't get that pressure indefinitely.
Kelly held the rapt attention of reporters in the briefing room as he described what happens to a soldier when he is slain in action.
"It was like aliens beaming onto the TV screen, and the entire family was rapt, even though many of them hated it," Mr. Carney said.
The girls were rapt, cheering for the boxers and breaking into applause when the commandos, in hijab and body armor, practiced firing a rocket launcher.
But while you would think this dress would have our full, rapt attention, we can't help but wonder what's happening with that clutch over there.
Here, heavies like Krishna Das, Jai Uttal, Bhagavan Das, and Ram Das—armed with knowledge gleaned from their gurus—shared Eastern mysticism with rapt Californians.
A century separates the clarinet quintets of Mozart and Brahms, but at the emotional heart of each sits a slow movement of rapt, bucolic calm.
Since 2016, Perry&aposs consumption of entire fast-food menus (often accompanied by his pet parrot) has captured the rapt attention of a YouTube audience.
These characters who have held us rapt for 150 pages turn out to be the shrubby understory, for which we couldn't yet see the forest.
The episode exploded into a Watergate-style moment, with the local news media repeatedly playing the damning portions of the recording to a rapt public.
And that was before Trump took the podium at the White House Thursday and delivered a wild 75-minute press conference which held the Capitol rapt.
After about 20 rapt minutes, we learned that a local affiliate liked to treat Long Islanders to some vintage frights when the according season rolls around.
Company executives listened with rapt attention as Zhu drew parallels with a house on sale to explain the basics of one hedging tool, a currency option.
Over the weekend the following picture — which appeared to show Trump and several other world leaders staring at Putin with rapt attention — went viral on Twitter.
And by the time Melania Trump finished her prime-time address before the rapt crowd in Cleveland, it appeared that she had gotten the job done.
Both also keep their teammates rapt when they speak — and those fellow players respect them so much that they listen and follow through on their advice.
Saturday's concert could not be more different: Messiaen's erotic, rapt, sumptuous "Turangalîla-Symphonie," with Jean-Yves Thibaudet at the piano and Cynthia Millar on Ondes Martenot.
The dream shower was suggested here by a dozen dancers in skintight gold outfits, who twisted and turned in a heavenly space above the rapt Danae.
He doesn't have to do all that much here, but as one of the last authentic monuments to he-man masculinity, he easily holds you rapt.
Andrew M. Cuomo in his element: An audience of New York's elite, from business titans to lobbying powerhouses to real estate barons, sat rapt before him.
The most remarkable images in this juvenile archive depict two farmhands at Voëlfontein, named Ros and Freek, whom Mr. Coetzee describes in "Boyhood" with rapt admiration.
As long as the bee is buzzing, bluegills will stare in rapt attention, even occasionally attacking the bottle in an effort to eat the insect within.
News of relapses, of overdoses and deaths, was always breaking, and so the emergencies that one day held us rapt were soon supplanted by new ones.
The smartphone is an intimate device; we stare rapt into its bright light and stroke its smooth glass to coax out information and connect with others.
I never once felt like I had a grasp on how this story was going to play out, which kept me rapt until the last page.
The WJCs arrive, a big chunk of hockey fans pay rapt attention, the games generate impressive ratings and are played in front of packed houses (uh, sometimes).
McElheny has transfigured the rapt act of looking into the bountiful sky, and beyond to the heavens, into a meticulously rendered sculpture that verges on the sublime.
At Britain's Leeds University, where he earned his undergraduate degree in Arabic and politics, Regeni followed the unfolding revolutions in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt with rapt interest.
Before a rapt chamber, he was by turns folksy and self-deprecating, intense and scornful, challenging the House prosecutors who had brought the case to the Senate.
He twice escaped from police custody, then went on to represent himself at the two murder trials for which he was prosecuted with rapt TV cameras recording.
I presented the puzzle to a recent college class of mathematics majors and they listened with rapt attention afterward — startled by their lowly 19 percent success rate.
It's the sort of thing you'll think about leaving on in the background before dropping everything 30 seconds in and sitting rapt in front of your speakers.
There are two types of people in this world: those who watch Game of Thrones in a state of rapt silence, and those who dare to talk.
From Cinderella to working-class caricatures like Gnafron, a poor shoemaker, puppets in elaborate costumes animated by hand, string or stick keep audiences of every age rapt.
I remember my father watching the Bronco chase with rapt interest (we rushed home from my dance recital that night in June of 1994 to watch it).
Additionally, so am I, because my job is to be a rapt observer of the internet and because I love this TV show with my whole heart.
Everywhere I look, women — and it is mostly women — are frantically rummaging in their purses for pens and notebooks, ears pricked and eyes narrowed with rapt attention.
I've been rapt for hours by yarns spun by those recovering from addiction — enough to fill memoirs, yet I must encapsulate them in 800 or so words.
I'm also a rapt beneficiary of the renaissance in podcasting — a classic example of technology, innovation and investment coming together to eventually get a new medium right.
The actress Annabella Sciorra fought back tears as she told a rapt courtroom, in excruciating detail, about the night she said the former movie producer raped her.
In the ensemble, the music had the feel of a freewheeling game; in the trio, it unfolded as a rapt late-night conversation, a collective musing aloud.
The story's unexpected turns will keep readers rapt, and Lucy's voice — reserved, blunt, sarcastic — feels as bone true as that of any Y.A. character in recent memory.
"Proud" is all haze and light touch from a singer-songwriter who is never quite fully in the room but who holds you at rapt attention nonetheless.
Most of it was dry and bureaucratic, but the dozen or so attendees, including two campaign staffers for Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Amy Klobuchar, were rapt.
There are many versions of nomenklatura chic, but their common purpose is to telegraph "positivity"—rapt support for a man, a brand, a party, or a message.
There, more than 150 young women spoke to the court -- and a rapt American public -- about how Nassar used his position of influence to molest young girls.
The Knights also gave the American première of Nico Muhly's song cycle "Impossible Things," a rapt setting of poems by C. P. Cavafy, in Daniel Mendelsohn's translation.
Seven years later, her influence spans across beauty, fashion, and fitness, and she films videos that have a rapt audience of 18 million on Instagram and YouTube combined.
Elon Musk laid out his grand vision for a network of tunnels to a rapt crowd in Los Angeles, and promised a grand celebration when it's all done.
The app had everyone—including most of the WIRED staff—rapt this past weekend and its left the Monitor crew unable to do—or talk about—anything else.
You can watch at the top of the page but, while David Attenborough's soothing voice is always a joy, it does cut across Thom Yorke's rapt mumbling here.
Each legal team hammered away at the science — and as they did, they introduced a rapt TV audience to a whole new world of high-tech police investigation.
Watching one hunt in the shallow waters of Hamilton Beach, Queens, one early morning, I was held rapt for almost an hour by the bird's search for prey.
The musicians were mere specks from behind rows of cushioned seats and V.I.P. sections, yet Mr. Cervony and Mr. Kray stood shoulder to shoulder, rapt and at ease.
It ushered in a period of mature mastery for Mr. Abrahamsen, whose rapt recent song cycle, "let me tell you," won the prestigious Grawemeyer Award in the fall.
As a rapt audience listens in on the stark recitation, the combination of Wiedersheim's physical interaction with the keys and her instrumental manipulation of the typewriter is enthralling.
My brother and I would hide under the table and listen to my mother's guests argue and laugh and kiss above, rapt as they told fantastic, wild stories.
After a disappointing meeting — the audio system glitches trying to play Alfred's music — they wander around and see another artist inside a conference room, performing for rapt staffers.
The washes and strokes of color — the barely perceivable footprints leading toward that interior source — are what pull us in, holding us rapt in the painting's pulsating nothingness.
Inside the overflow section at Brooklyn Criminal Court on Tuesday, a rapt audience watched the live broadcast of the courtroom next door and waited, anxiously, for the news.
Most noticeable was the bootslapping — the men wore calf-high black boots which they used as percussion instruments, whipping their hands across the leather to keep viewers rapt.
Perhaps it was best read as a primer for the alternate reality she has single-handedly engineered, one that rejects society while remaining in rapt conversation with it.
He and his team have already proven they can do it themselves after selling their startups Rapt to Microsoft and Krux to Salesforce for a combined $1.2 billion.
Those Germans with television sets in 1960 were as rapt as Americans by a badly shaven and shifty Richard Nixon, wilting beside a tan and youthful John Kennedy.
Fanny was recording the whole scene on her phone to post on Snapchat, her face rapt and smiling, while the chocolate cake was enthroned on the kitchen table.
Drawn largely from the city's affluent neighborhoods, they sat in rapt attention, dressed in bright patterned tunics, listening to the lecturer, Sara Asif, instruct them on Islamic strictures.
The Quatuor Bozzini has made rapt recordings of the quartets, for Edition Wandelweiser; in a further challenge to contemporary listening habits, they are available only through mail order.
Now, as he left, he held celebrity friends like Roddy McDowall and Angie Dickinson at rapt attention as he shared the latest juicy tidbits from inside Judge Ito's courtroom.
These speeches had some of the delegates hanging on to their every word, every bit as rapt as anyone was to legendary raconteur Bill Clinton later in the night.
Investors currently seem to be ignoring the horse race for the White House, but markets will soon pay rapt attention to the 2016 presidential race, according to one economist.
He brandished data, graphs and drawings of wine labels to explain the value of brands to a rapt audience that grew up insulated from the 20th century's branding revolution.
One by one, 511 deputies filed towards a crowded microphone and, in ten-second bursts broadcast to a rapt nation, voted on the impeachment of the president, Dilma Rousseff.
While the mad scientist Rick Sanchez enlists his grandson Morty Smith on wild space adventures, the oddball cast of characters and witty humor has kept audiences rapt with attention. 
" • Lex writes that the potential merger "was eminently sensible, good for shareholders and utterly boring by the standards of a leader who talks in rapt terms about the 'singularity.
But it's Ms. Gyllenhaal's Eileen, swaggering down a gritty street in a creamy jumpsuit and pale fur to the strains of Barry White, who continues to hold us rapt.
Jurors were rapt as the Colombian drug lord, who underwent extensive plastic surgery to alter his appearance when he was a fugitive, described his rise through the cartel ranks.
In front of rapt nightclub audiences, when she sang with husky, quavering verve, or turned interstitial monologues into febrile, secular sermons, she was exhibiting a kind of radical transparency.
Throughout rehearsal, she was rapt but funny, keeping one ear tuned toward Valk's mood at all times while finding moments to touch or joke with the cast and crew.
"President Trump and our administration, I promise you, are gonna work tirelessly to empower women to be able to climb the ladder of opportunity," he told the rapt crowd.
Still, it all might have been left behind as an Iain Banksian footnote without a foundation in gameplay: tight, sophisticated, smart and unapologetically rapt in the romance of new frontiers.
There is a rapt community of enthusiasts who play in tournaments run by the Professional & Amateur Pinball Association (PAPA) on a circuit that culminates in a world championship each year.
At the Upper East Side gallery, Luxembourg & Dayan, a rapt audience listens while artists George Condo and Dorothea Rockburne discuss their experiences working for Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg, respectively.
You can spend your afternoon rapt in good literature, cupping the old book's spine, smelling the dried parchment and traveling to far off imaginary places without moving anywhere at all.
The crowd hushed when Wells arrived at the front, flanked by his dog Cody, who was identified as such by numerous rapt onlookers as though the recognition might be reciprocal.
"The administration chose to defame me and, more importantly, the FBI by saying that the organization was in disarray, that it was poorly run," Comey told a rapt hearing room.
In a speech that neatly coincided with Comey's long-awaited Senate hearing, Trump preened and crowed in front of a rapt audience at the Faith and Freedom Coalition's annual luncheon.
Every Monday, my parents would drive me to our local community center, where I'd sit perched on a yoga mat, paying rapt attention at hourlong meetings about God knows what.
Are the unglamorous, tedious approaches to rounding up votes as powerful as the booming voice of a celebrity with hours of free television time and millions of rapt Twitter followers?
Listening to Trump address the rapt crowd on this perfect fall day, it was easy to see why: Who cares about some creepy acts when America is about to fail?
When she arose, wearing a crown of brambles and a gown the colors of the sea, small children were among the passers-by who stopped to watch with rapt attention.
The audience sat in rapt silence for New Order's 1983 record "Power, Corruption & Lies," taking in every detail of the sparkling electro-pop riffs, soaring vocals and bouncy polyrhythmic beats.
In due course, along came the barbarian savior, marching across the ramparts, through the gates of the capital, and declaring the rapt crowd to be the largest in recorded history.
I saw rapt descriptions of the outfits and expressions worn by Kim's sister, Kim Yo-jong, the first member of her family to visit South Korea since the Korean War.
And so it seesaws, over and over, as we rapt observers yearn for a pattern and persuade ourselves that we've found one only to have it vanish before our eyes.
The audience was rapt, so realistic and spooky it was, with everyone's blood-smeared white robes, the trick dagger blades seemingly penetrating Caesar, his body sinking slowly to the ground.
A cartoon in one Israeli newspaper depicted Zehut's leader, Moshe Feiglin, holding a lit joint, with a Pied Piper-like trail of liberal voters rapt at their new, unexpected champion.
Skalnik — who had found work with her next-door neighbor's brother, a private investigator — was often around, holding her father rapt with stories of his days as a police officer.
"He was, like, 'All these kids look like they're at a fucking church'—it looked like a punk-show crowd, but the kids were rapt with attention," Bridgers told me.
Breen told a rapt courtroom that Papadopoulos has already faced his penalty over the past year, and realized he needed to disavow the Trump administration in favor of the truth.
There, before a rapt audience in a sanctum of justice, this Harvard-­trained lawyer from Brooklyn who spent his summers on the borscht belt could be at his most performative.
Its scares are aural instead of visual, unless you count the increasingly rapt expressions on the face of an inhibited Englishman named Gilderoy, played with uncompromising geekiness by Tom Brooke.
In the absence of interviews and public statements, a rapt public began to search for clues in Mr. Mueller's appearance, turning the square-jawed investigator into a political Rorschach test.
President Barack Obama picked Comey to be FBI director in 2013 in part on the merit of that first bombshell, which Comey recounted to a rapt audience of senators in 2007.
Whether he was speaking about racial injustice or the need to love one another or his journey to lift up all people, he drew a rapt audience from around the globe.
Hollywood certainly seems to love her, as evinced by the rapt, standing-room reception of industry types and GOOP enthusiasts she received at the LA launch of her series last Thursday.
"What an honor it is for our vision and technology to be recognized by a video technology powerhouse like Kaltura," said Rapt Media founder and CEO Erika Trautman in the announcement.
The baritone Christopher Maltman was similarly agile as Mark: he brought a vacant, self-involved air to his rapt Act II aria, in which he compares Marnie to a startled deer.
His feelings of guilt in the face of his relatives' suffering, as well as his rapt rediscovery of the native landscape, are characteristic attitudes of the émigré, as he well knows.
In later days, when I had become an eminent intellectual in Luocheng, I told the story of this suffering to some close female friends and noted their expressions of rapt fascination.
Clinton as a girlfriend, wife, and mother — the first time, surely, that the moment a presidential nominee's water broke was recounted to a rapt convention audience and millions more at home.
So imagine you're sitting in a meeting and have to look like you're paying rapt attention to your boss' every word, but you'd rather be browsing your email on your laptop.
Like most soaps, Passions leaned into the dramatics —long-lost children, family secrets, evil siblings, and forbidden loves galore— constantly reinventing itself to keep storylines fresh and their core audiences rapt.
At the conference, Lencho, a lawyer, held court over dozens of ordinary people who were completely rapt as she explained the impact of new regulatory measures for the medical marijuana space.
The two guys left outside describe the "hot lesbians" over their walkie-talkies, gaining a rapt audience of men (cashiers, truck drivers, police officers) whose radios accidentally pick up their channel.
In the second period, an American man proposed to his girlfriend on the arena's video board, earning raucous cheers, and then a long round of warm applause, from the rapt crowd.
But my 10- and seven-year olds listened with rapt attention as I laid out the sad and difficult realities of the current moment and how they link to our past.
Lolita is a horrifying book, but it is also a beautiful book: The language is rapt and playful and gymnastic; it is a book that invites its reader to love it.
"If you cut these nerves, the patient will probably have urinary problems, sexual problems, many things," Dr. Antonio Maria de Lacy told a rapt audience at the mobile tech industry event.
It pulled off one of the most successful public relations campaigns ever, capturing more than a year of rapt global attention for what amounted to a mere search for added office space.
And even though his self-destructive experiment pays off, it also unhinges Nirmali and her desires, culminating into a shock ending that reimagines filmmaking in ways that invite — and deserve — rapt interpretations.
From the televised slow-speed chase of Simpson in a white Ford Bronco to the trial that kept the country rapt for months, it permeated every sphere of American culture, even politics.
For the rapt public it wasn't about the product anymore; it was about reaching a surreal pinnacle in a battle for soda supremacy that's now been raging for more than 120 years.
Before a rapt audience of several dozen inmates, guests and jail personnel, the two men nervously shuffled through stacks of notes as they readied for a clash of uncommon substance and civility.
But when the prosecution neared the end of its questioning Friday, with the allegedly fake documents on the screen and a witness testifying to her own wrongdoing, the courtroom was rapt. 4.
Mr. Echols recently came to Brooklyn, where, dressed entirely in black and with arcane symbols tattooed on most of his visible skin, he spoke before a rapt crowd at the Brooklyn Bowl.
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The remarks — and the rapt audience — illustrated how the anti-vaccination movement can exploit fear and anxiety within relatively insular communities, especially religious ones, to undercut scientifically sound warnings from health experts.
Legs crossed, arms self-protectively pressed to their chests, they were rapt as Ms. Martin, chirpily reassuring, sought to address that eternal, and eternally vexing, question: Just what is it women want?
From Iowa to New Hampshire to California, most of the 100,000-plus people who have taken "selfies" with Ms. Warren have heard some version of the story, often listening in rapt silence.
The first one was a tour de force, Mr. Jobs leading a rapt audience as he asked them to imagine an iPod, a phone and a pocket internet device all in one.
A rapt 11-year-old when she first entered the United States illegally, Bianca, 1603, was nearly deported this year after making herself known to the American government by applying for asylum.
A rapt television audience of tens of millions heard Ms. Hill describe a workplace environment that included, among other things, talk of oral sex and a pubic hair on a Coke can.
Carnage is his release, and the camera plays along, gazing up at his aspirational buttocks as he slides a knife from his back pocket, and circling his twisting torso with rapt attention.
"If elected, I will promote transparency and work to lower the outrageously high government salaries," he told the rapt audience of about 400 people at a meet-the-candidates event for seniors.
"I grew up in a world where a woman who looks like me, with my kind of skin and my kind of hair, was never considered beautiful," she told the rapt crowd.
The pressure bears down, spreading the heat creamily on the head, belly, back or feet, holding the masses of nerves totally rapt, making them forget what it was they were screaming about.
Washington (CNN)Inside the West Wing, multiple White House officials were watching Sam Nunberg's interviews on Monday about refusing to comply with special counsel Robert Mueller's grand jury subpoena with rapt attention.
Only music this passively rapt could back the high soars and swoops of her singing, which evokes a free, dreamy, restless spirit in tune with nature while presenting beauty as an abstraction.
Your pencils are sharp, your knowledge of obscure basketball teams from Allegany, New York is keen, and your blind faith in your alma mater's ability to do the unthinkable is rapt as ever.
This time the show even features an amusement-park ride, run by Google, in which rapt visitors are ferried around in trolley cars through rooms full of talking animatronic characters and singing macarons.
Marie and John were seated with rapt attention when Kevin Spacey won Best Supporting Actor for The Usual Suspects, and thanked Bryan Singer, who has been accused of sexual assault, in his speech.
Geller, who had previously referred to President Obama as "the jihadi in chief," was busy explaining to a rapt attendee how the flood of desperate Syrian refugees into Europe were doing ISIS's bidding.
Passersby were rapt by the moving mosaic of insects until the New York Police Department cordoned off a part of West 43rd Street lest anyone be stung while trying to snap a pic.
Not only was the conciliatory tone a rarity for Trump, but the speech was also delivered entirely without applause as leaders of 51 Arab and Muslim nations listened in silent, yet rapt attention.
So I watched in rapt attention when he rose to speak on behalf of the symbolic anti-war candidacy of a Senate colleague who four years later would become the party's standard-bearer.
LONDON — It is a worldwide emblem of urban life, as ubiquitous as the clutched paper cup of latte or the sight of a pedestrian in rapt communication with the screen of a smartphone.
Washington (CNN)Judge Amy Berman Jackson, as she sentenced Roger Stone to 40 months in prison, gave a lengthy speech extolling truth and the rule of law to a rapt courtroom on Thursday.
Against video images that suggested starry firmaments, Ms. La Barbara, a riveting stage presence, stood rapt and still until she began using gestures to blow silent kisses, like cosmic clouds, into the space.
With audiences in which badge-holding music-business professionals are surrounded by more typical listeners, the festival provides instant feedback on what's really reaching people: via shouts, singalongs, rowdy approval or rapt attention.
My 15-year-old sat rapt through a Philharmonic concert and "Adriana Lecouvreur" at the Met Opera over the holidays just because a friend from camp who was into classical music was visiting.
While I believe this will be a work of art that I will watch with rapt attention at my earliest convenience on an airplane, Twitter is understandably going a little wild with the information.
After its delayed July 20 release on the game-distribution platform Steam, it shot to the top of the charts to become the best-selling game on the site, immediately finding its rapt audience.
Sitting in the front row, Penny was rapt during a bit poking fun at different kinds of author photos, laughing merrily at a shot of a jovial guy wearing a book like a hat.
In testimony on Wednesday before a Senate panel, Mattis described Trump listening with rapt attention during briefings on Middle East military strategy but added that the president tends not to drill down on details.
The whistle-blower Christopher Wylie held a roomful of British lawmakers rapt for three and a half hours on Tuesday, like a pink-haired, nose-ringed oracle sent from the future to explain data. . . .
That was no problem for "Blackbird," which, he explained as usual, was written in sympathy with the 1960s civil-rights movement; he played it alone on acoustic guitar and held the festival audience rapt.
Millions watched on cable television as Blasey Ford held the Senate Judiciary Committee rapt with her account of a sexual assault on her as a teenager that she says was carried out by Kavanaugh.
Which isn't to imply that FaceTime has no room for peacocks: Imani arrives at every FaceTime date newly rapt by her own beauty, each of us complimenting the camera's ability to capture her splendor.
But if you want to see a bona fide stage star at the height of her powers, drawing energizing sustenance from an audience's rapt attention, "Mother of the Maid" is the ticket for you.
"People were just dancing, enjoying their lives and talking, and Omar Mateen was standing there, looking at all of his future victims," James D. Mandolfo, an assistant United States attorney, told the rapt courtroom.
In one, he and the video artist Philip Mallory Jones frame the dancer and choreographer Bill T. Jones, barefoot and in mid-movement, as Mr. Hammons is rapt with a folded piece of paper.
And I'm not alone: for the past two centuries, diet fads (and the writers, dietitians, entrepreneurs, and celebrities who popularize them) have held the rapt attention of the health-conscious and self-conscious alike.
I watched, rapt, as a dancer pushed a rocking chair across the gallery — lunging forward deeply, her head bowed, and then drawing herself upward, only to repeat the cycle all over again, like Sisyphus.
"The administration chose to defame me and, more importantly, the FBI by saying that the organization was in disarray, that it was poorly run," Comey told a rapt hearing room in his opening remarks.
The film itself kept me rapt; I cried through the end and left the theater with the dazed, disoriented feeling you get when a movie makes you momentarily forget everything else in your life.
The image that unfolds, quite naturally, is of a lifetime spent like this: his softening form pinned and limp before a roaring television, somehow both distracted and utterly rapt, while daylight streams through large windows.
That is "super beneficial," Habibi told a rapt crowd of real estate brokers on Monday, for the tech industry rich who will be readily buying and the real estate agents who will be aggressively selling.
I watched her perform the song live a few months ago with a skeletal stage setup — just a drummer and her own keyboards — and the audience was rapt, erupting in cheers when the beat disappeared.
While lawmakers had once listened with rapt attention as former employee Christopher Wylie discussed how the Facebook material was gathered and used by the firm, they grew visibly impatient with Nix, who challenged their questions.
He broke from the shadows penning songs for Edith Piaf in the years after World War Two, and later brought rapt audiences to their feet at venues as far away as New York's Carnegie Hall.
Models wearing scarf-neck blouses and denim dusters drooped by, and in the audience, a woman in a Mongolian-lamb chubby — 80-degree weather be damned — and holding a Chihuahua on her lap looked rapt.
He might have been talking about American values, about human values, about the principles that America proudly championed until recently, exhorting his rapt audience to defend them -- and to leave if they cannot embrace them.
The only people who seemed as rapt as I was, in fact, were the three who were pointing an iPhone XS Plus in the same direction I was and wearing Beats headphones identical to mine.
The collection intersperses flash-length stories that can feel a little thin compared with the longer ones that allow readers to watch with rapt attention as each protagonist spirals out of his or her artifice.
LONDON — The whistle-blower Christopher Wylie held a roomful of British lawmakers rapt for three and a half hours on Tuesday, like a pink-haired, nose-ringed oracle sent from the future to explain data.
There is a mystery in the making of gajak that still has her rapt, decades later: The flavors don't truly shine until the brittle has been allowed to set for about 20 or 30 minutes.
LE POISSON ROUGE July 19 "We can't pretend that we don't feel like the world is ending," Samora Pinderhughes sang to a rapt, swaying crowd, his hands caressing the keyboard and his head tilted askew.
But what grows from that modest start seems to fill not only a vacant lot in a fictionalized Cleveland, but also the whole of the New Victory Theater and the rapt hearts of its audience.
" Even the cows get some gorgeous lines: "In the fields the cattle, made slow-witted by the rain, lifted their rapt and empty faces, heavy loops of spittle hanging, as though they ate watery light.
Unity Phelan, the most elegantly and glamorously poetic of the young generation now ascending to ballerina roles, danced the second ballerina in "Emeralds" for the first time in a dreamy, rapt murmur on Sept. 19.
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Late in her new standup comedy special Marriage Material, Cameron Esposito stares at her rapt Chicago audience, letting a smirk slowly unfurl on her face to uneasy giggles and a few frantic bursts of applause.
When the country's highest court ruled in March that Mr Zuma had violated the constitution in a row over taxpayers' cash spent on his private village estate, proceedings were similarly broadcast live to a rapt nation.
So, when model Soo Joo Park — she of the fashion mullet and #hairgoals platinum mane — told us she had a simple, daily trick for taming frizz and flyaways, you can bet we listened with rapt attention.
Set to the tune of Incubus (yes, actually), the video shows clips of the nighttime mission, interspersed with footage of SpaceX employees waiting in rapt attention to see if their hard work would translate into success.
"I am excited that Rapt Media customers can now benefit from Kaltura's wide range of video solutions and easily expand their video strategy to support any use case that may arise today and in the future."
She poked her head inside what looked like the supersize hair dryer to listen to the sounds of vagrant winds, chittering birds and wildlife, as rapt as if she had entered some mystical chamber of wonders.
There was a rapt look on faces that I hadn't seen in politics since—no kidding—Barack Obama spoke at former Senator Tom Harkin's Iowa Steak Fry in 2006 on the cusp of his presidential campaign.
Short in stature at 160 cm (five foot three inches), Aznavour possessed a magnetic stage presence that brought rapt audiences to their feet at venues such as the Olympia in Paris and New York's Carnegie Hall.
For two days, the country watched with rapt attention as rescuers tried to locate a girl, called "Frida Sofia" by news outlets and concerned social media users, trapped in the ruins of a Mexico City school.
Trump spoke to a rapt audience at the largest annual conservative summit in an address that featured invectives against the president's political enemies, several standing ovations and little daylight between the White House and its base.
We don't know for sure what the Russian, Konstantin Kilimnik, did with the information because Mueller wasn't able to learn it, but we could presume Kilimnik's rapt attention to such obscure data was not idle curiosity.
Among the rapt attendees were Madison Steinberg and Lindsay Reisman, both 23 and working in public relations, and Brayan Poma, also 22012, who works in construction; afterward they each took home an attractive tropical pitcher plant.
Alternating between bites of the crispy salmon with sorrel, and the savory chicken with morels, my 6-year-old stared, rapt, out the plate glass windows at the blast furnace's gas flares rending the nighttime sky.
The opera was inspired by Thomson and Stein's love for the oratory of the United States in the 19th-century, when politicians made grandiloquent, soaring speeches and public debates went on for hours before rapt crowds.
And as a country increasingly rapt by the Brexit debate slept, its elected body was shuttered by the prime minister in a ceremony that featured a rod, a mace and a few lines of Norman French.
I read the news the same way I recently watched a TV show about dermatological surgery: rapt with revulsion, face half-averted, squinting helplessly at the moist plops and glistening excisions through the chinks in my fingers.
But we have to start according the overall, constant, grinding epidemics of large-scale gun violence in this nation the same rapt attention and reactive zeal that we do to a cannibal killer or a highway strangler.
We first meet Bill when the Doctor (currently played by Peter Capaldi) calls her into his office at a stately university, where he's apparently been giving philosophical lectures to rapt students for going on 70 years now.
By the '90s, our family was among the estimated 120 million people a day who'd sit in rapt attention in front of the television when he'd shout out our sign while flapping his cape for extra drama.
On Thursday, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford held Washington and the country rapt with a wrenching account of a teenage sexual assault, saying she was "29 percent" certain that a 24-year-old Brett Kavanaugh was the attacker.
But the most magical moment might be when Aunt Maggie Far Away wakes from a near-vegetative state and holds the four young Carney daughters rapt with tales of lost love and predictions of their own futures.
As Antetokounmpo now commands the stage in the N.B.A. playoffs as the best player on the Milwaukee Bucks, the top-seeded team in the Eastern Conference, his fellow African immigrants in Greece are watching with rapt attention.
You can see them sitting circled around a fire on the beach, the light flickering on their rapt faces, one telling a story about a mighty civilization doomed by its hubris, an age of wonders long past.
China's push to implement a national social credit system attracts rapt attention around the world, though it is in its earliest stages — not yet influencing the daily lives of most Chinese citizens and largely opaque to outsiders.
Others, and I am one, are held so rapt by Cusk's cool scrutiny of the world that it's as if she is navigating, without oxygen, the territory between the Third Step and the Summit Pyramid on Everest.
China erred by not telling the country's state-owned media and other researchers to visit a wide range of locations and not just pay rapt attention to what is said in Davos, New York and Western capitals.
In the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in Mexico, an international audience waited in rapt attention for news of Frida Sofia, a girl who had survived the collapse of her school and remained trapped in the rubble.
On August 14, 2016, a room of 170 men and a handful of women in the south Indian city of Hyderabad sat in rapt silence to the image of a bearded Texan man addressing them via Skype.
At the 1964 World's Fair in New York, companies told rapt audiences that technology would lead to a Utopia, and General Motors' Futurama exhibit predicted that within 20 years, we'd be driving around in glass-wrapped bubble cars.
Her style, refined in films like " Ratcatcher " (1999) and " We Need to Talk About Kevin " (2011), is unignorable; the closeups are pathologically rapt, and the focus is not just on faces but on other regions of the body.
Apple's head of security engineering and architecture, Ivan Krstic, told a rapt audience at the Black Hat security conference earlier this month that his notoriously secretive company was ready to open up its vulnerability reporting process to researchers.
But it's impossible to cleave Hval's music from the way she thinks about music, and even the EP's rapt soundscapes are ultimately mise-en-scène for making the listener unpack and rethink modern relationships with music and art.
They were also galvanized by a powerful realization: They could reliably summon the rapt attention of the media and the public, which were hungrier than ever for the vicarious thrill of watching someone—finally—hold tech companies accountable.
All were greeted with rapt approval by a rowdy partisan crowd at the stadium Kyrgios had requested for his opening match, the only showcourt that is accessible to fans with general ground passes and a willingness to queue.
An hour is a long time to listen to a politician speak, especially in today's hyper-distracted world, so it is especially striking to watch young people who go to hear Mr. Sanders, sit, rapt, without moving or texting.
David Harbour had Shrine Auditorium's star-studded crowd rapt as he delivered an impassioned acceptance speech for Stranger Things' outstanding performance by an an ensemble in a drama series win at the 2017 Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday.
Toward the end of that decade, the TV miniseries "Roots," based on the book by Alex Haley, held households rapt for eight consecutive nights, culminating in a finale that remains one of the most-watched programs in television history.
He performs magic for his captivated coworkers; he concocts and sells a homemade brew from chemicals pinched at the mine; and he practices the proper stances of holding a rifle from a VHS that he watches with rapt attention.
Among the others on display are scenes eternalized by Bob Adelman, Danny Lyon, Henri Dauman, Jacques Lowe, Spider Martin, Steve Schapiro and Paul Schutzer: rapt audiences at campaign rallies and protest marches; speakers and their supporters animated with promise and dreams.
Unprecedented in its rigor, Obama's final week on the trail is a final act for a President whose vision of hope and change has always been best administered in front of rapt and rowdy crowds gathered in America's electoral battlegrounds.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Scott Schneidermann, one of Senator Marco Rubio's supporters from northwest Iowa, saw all the hallmarks of a campaign on the upswing: a rapt audience of 200, nowhere left to sit, a crush of out-of-town reporters.
The group sat in rapt silence – broken only by a sudden shout of "there was just a big jump!" from someone monitoring his virtual currencies - as one student gave a presentation on how to read financial data and predict future trends.
In Verrocchio's painting "The Baptism of Christ," the Master's hardy, pug-nosed angel seems to stare in wonder at the rapt creature beside him, one of the earliest works of Leonardo, its noble profile trailing a cascade of golden curls.
Ever the coach, Harry Sinden, 83, suggested a new strategy: Instead of speaking directly to an audience, the players formed a semicircle in a dressing-room setting and exchanged behind-the-scenes stories before a rapt audience of about 400.
Ford offered a gripping account of the alleged assault from the 1980s that left an audience in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room rapt, appearing to hold back tears at times as she recounted an event from her high school years.
At the end of their final, magnificently sung duet, "Move On," about getting beyond the pettiness and obstacles of daily life, Mr. Gyllenhaal and Ms. Ashford shared the most rapt and embracing smiles I think I've ever seen on a stage.
For two separate performances by the saxophonist Anthony Braxton, a venerable musician about as based in jazz per se as Mr. Adams is based in classical music per se (which is to say, vestigially), the houses were full and rapt.
The rapt faces that surrounded me in the audience echoed that sentiment, as did the band's expressions onstage; as Neige told me later in an interview, it was a tough performance to prepare for, but they made it look effortless.
Thursday, I think, could be good for cooking beef barley soup with lemon that you'll eat Friday night, leaving a slot open for a delivery grandma pie to eat while you cook, listening to "Caliphate" over Bluetooth, rapt as can be.
It was mid-April, and the director was sitting onstage at the Star Wars Celebration convention in Chicago in front of a sea of rapt fans, the crowd a dark mass peppered with glowing smartphones and the odd raised lightsaber.
But instead, I got wrapped up in the film, and when I glanced back at the man a while later, I realized that he was staring at the movie screen, completely rapt and still, like he'd never seen a movie before.
According to the Guardian, the leader of the Unsa-RAPT union, which is one of several unions that represent Paris metro workers, said that workers needed to "get their breath back and recharge their batteries" after such a long, sustained action.
Staggering off the boat at Marlow at the end of the day, I thought of Reilly's rapt face as he held the swan, the genial conviviality of the uppers, the sun-splashed slipway at Cookham and then Stanley Spencer again.
But none of that deterred Marco Albanese, a police officer for 19 years and a trained sommelier for five, from teaching a class of rapt students the finer points of deconstructing the bouquet of a chardonnay or pouring a rare vintage.
Recently, at a restaurant with my family, I observed my son scrawling away at the paper placemat with his crayons, rapt, unfettered by his body, and I also observed a young man and a young woman at a nearby table.
The editors of GQ magazine watched and wondered about the outfits (the first lady, Melania Trump, wore Ralph Lauren, one informed another); a press officer, ushering guests to their seats, said he had spent the morning glued to CNN, reluctantly rapt.
The paintings aren't in the museum, but the manager, a sweet woman who spoke no English, sent me off with a postcard of a man and woman in a tight embrace, muscles bulging, fighting in front of a rapt audience.
Neither the event's host, Ryan Coogler, the director of "Creed," nor the film's stars, Michael B. Jordan, who read a Fred Hampton speech before a rapt crowd, and Tessa Thompson, who read one by Angela Davis, alluded to the complaints surrounding the nominations.
The packed auditorium was rapt as Gore raced through chart after chart of statistics and video after video of high tide flooding in Miami's streets and a collision of cars and trucks being washed away by rushing brown waters in one Spanish city.
It would be years before I understood with any depth the meaning behind Jackson's 1989 concept album Rhythm Nation 1814, but I watched with rapt attention when MTV debuted her short film/video premiere special (in retrospect, a precursor to Beyoncé's Lemonade).
"As the film unspooled, Kubrick watched the screen with rapt attention while a panorama of the galaxies swirled by, achieving the standard of dynamic visionary realism that he was looking for," Lobrutto said in an obituary for Universe's co-director, Colin Low.
Jennifer tracks down figures from her past, and is questioned in turn — "I just don't understand, why did you keep going back?" her mother (Ellen Burstyn) asks, not grasping the validation her daughter got from the rapt attention of an adult she admired.
The entire hearing room sat rapt as Ford tearfully recounted the episode she says occurred at a high-school party in 1982, and in stunned silence as Kavanaugh excoriated Democrats and broke down over his daughter saying a bedtime prayer for Ford.
Onstage, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Ocasio-Cortez clasped hands, raising them together — him beaming like a proud professor, albeit one who seemed to understand he might soon be eclipsed by his student; her commanding an audience that was at once rapt and ebullient.
When Mr. Castro spoke at a forum sponsored by the League of United Latin American Citizens in Des Moines last month, the largely young and Latino crowd sat with rapt attention as he made the case to become the first Hispanic president.
Those who grow moist-eyed at the recollection of their mother's chocolate chip cookies, or have Proust-like associations with bites from their past, may be rapt, or at least touched by the dovetailing stories of family bonds tightened (or sundered) by cooking.
Yankees 23, Mariners 43 SEATTLE — When C. C. Sabathia plopped down on a sofa next to several of his teammates in the visitors' clubhouse, they were soon paying rapt attention to a biography of Nolan Ryan on the television in front of them.
So it was perhaps fitting that on a recent Sunday morning, a group of actors were in front of a rapt audience in a small lecture hall, reading from the local equivalent of scripture: the plays of the man from Stratford-upon-Avon.
White House Memo WASHINGTON — The chief executive sits at a long wooden table, putting his invited guests on the spot to defend their positions, occasionally needling them with biting comments, often shocking them with blunt talk — all for a rapt television audience.
She said he can check the security camera in the studio from home "to make sure I'm still alive" and he knows not to break the spell when she's working through the night, listening to books and rapt in a kind dance.
It features pictures of sweat-stained boxing rings around the country, with intimate depictions of fighters, referees and trainers, as well as other facets of life in and around the ring, including workouts, rapt spectators, and of course, the landing of blows.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Representative Adam Schiff, making his closing argument in the impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday, seemed to have the Senate chamber more or less rapt, with lawmakers listening respectfully, whether they agreed with his arguments or not.
"Sometimes I'm inside this black box all day, and I forget what people are like," she said, noting that, unlike hearing performers, she can't tell when the audience is laughing or crying, restless or rapt, except by watching Mr. Jackson's pacing for cues.
READ: No need to be scared of Putin's new nukes (any more than the old ones) "You can see how the missile bypasses interceptors," Putin boasted in front of a video demonstration of the new technology before a rapt audience in Moscow last March.
Bathed in the fluorescent glow of bright red, purple, and blue lights, a group of young and enthusiastic North Korean women there sang pop songs before a rapt audience of mainly Chinese men (in my two hours there, I saw maybe two female customers).
After a weekend of blastbeats and experimental squalls, all it took was one man, a laptop, and a seemingly endless stream of glossy synthesizer bangers to command the rapt attention of everyone present and get everyone dancing (and trust me, that room was packed).
Mr. McConnell and Mr. Schumer, who bear no great affection for each other, engaged in an uncommonly emotional duel on the Senate floor — holding in rapt attention two dozen senators who, in near unison, deposited their iPhones on their desks or laps to watch.
Seen in hindsight, the firings amounted to a bookend of Trump's "celebration" speech at the White House on Thursday, where, with a rapt and pliant GOP audience, the President attacked the "evil" and "corrupt" people who "want to destroy our country" by opposing him.
"Handicap man trying to survive, then you sitting there just to criticize, when that you, what thing you will really do?" he asked, snapping out the lyrics to a rapt crowd at Code 23, where Liberia's aspiring rap stars come to make their names.
Likewise, "Couple with Lilies of the Valley" (1973) features two lovers entwined — a popular subject for Chagall — seemingly paying rapt attention not to each other, but to some vases of flowers that stand between them and the viewer and are thus the focus of the painting.
And Mr. Edelman, in particular, knitted his brows in rapt attention as models like Will Chalker or Sean O'Pry strode past wearing corduroy cargo pants or checkered suits with bellows vents, as simultaneously the eyes of certain other front-row regulars rolled back in their heads.
The new gods are the things that demand our attention, that we give our time and our love and our attention to, whether it be the gods of podcast, or of those small glass and metal and plastic objects that we all stare at in rapt devotion.
Today is a special day though – finally, we have some fresh Knox to premiere on Noisey, coming in the shape of the rich, uplifting and The College Dropout-era Kanye beats of "My Redemption Song", fire-branded with some rapt bars from Wretch 32 and Avelino.
The next day, he began filling pages upon pages of notebook paper with drawings of spaceships and colorful cosmic phenomenon, even as he kept Leon rapt by spinning long, complicated stories about "ice ages, burning planets, and the creation of the universe," according to Tor's Adam Mitchell.
Seen-it-all aides went rapt as Ms. Steinem recounted her experience as a 17-year-old in Washington ("We made it a project to swim in all the fountains"), the first president she remembers (Franklin D. Roosevelt) and the times she picketed outside the Capitol (numerous).
After some exploration of relatively modest works in recent years, Mr. Hamelin returns with a program that has its delicate sides (Liszt's rapt "Bénédiction de Dieu Dans la Solitude," Debussy's "Images) but is otherwise filled with pyrotechnics, not least Godowsky's "Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Johann Strauss.
For New York cinephiles who came of age in the last 20 years, encountering Giulietta Masina's comic grace in Federico Fellini's post-neorealist classic "Nights of Cabiria" (Friday) or sitting with a rapt, breath-holding audience during the lengthy heist sequence in Jules Dassin's "Rififi" (Dec.
That and the most rapt love of nature all around me, that seemed to require something creative from me to attempt to match — a gold and crimson leaf, perhaps, or the way a turtle's shell fits perfectly, or the notion that horses, though heavy, could swim!
Just hours after the Senate voted to confirm Mr. Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, Brett M. Kavanaugh, whom Democrats had bitterly opposed, Mr. Booker stood before a rapt audience at the Iowa Democratic Party's annual fall gala and offered a theme of resilience and hope.
Just another night of coming home from work, changing into comfies and flopping on the couch in front of the TV. Those are times for eating something easy to prepare and drinking something simple and moderately priced, wines that do not require rapt attention or prolonged contemplation.
Struth is famous for his images of museum rooms thronged with rumpled, preoccupied, rapt tourists, yet I've always been especially drawn to his portraits; his subjects (mostly families he knows personally, but also Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip) stare straight into the camera with unsettling equanimity.
Bedecked in a multicolored collar that reflected the diversity of the 201 new citizens before her, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg presided over a naturalization ceremony on Tuesday at the New-York Historical Society, treating her rapt audience to a history lesson, one crackling with life and liberty.
Mr. Bernard will tell you that his work has often been his mistress, and Ms. Bernard will just as quickly tell you how mad that has made her, and for how long (on this morning, she pinched his arm hard to make her point, which delighted her rapt audience).
" They continued, "Sigur Rós are proud to be associated with Planet Earth II and its all-important mission to hold us rapt in understanding of, and respect for, this endlessly fascinating, utterly surprising and ultimately fragile place we are lucky enough to call home for a short while.
Not a lot happens in "Kudos," beyond a trip to a literary festival in what seems to be southern Italy, but the reader is held rapt by Cusk's cool scrutiny of the world, by the attention she pays to topics like parenthood, travel and the idiosyncrasies of human interaction.
With extraordinary control, Mr. Haynes fluidly toggles between time periods — shifting from glorious Expressionistic color for the 1970s and richly textured black-and-white for the 1920s — holding you rapt with a tricky puzzle of a story that doesn't wholly reveal itself until tears are filling your eyes.
There he taught easel painting and printmaking to a rapt cohort of local artists before moving on to California to execute a mural commission for Pomona College in Claremont — a 1930 fresco called "Prometheus" that the teenage Jackson Pollock, then living in Los Angeles, saw and never forgot.
As the fastidious Southerner standing before her carefully laid out his vision of social justice, my mother listened rapt, feeling as if he were speaking not just to her but from her, putting into words the inchoate jumble of thoughts that had been stirring in her mind for years.
At the end of a state dinner in Buenos Aires with Argentine President Mauricio Macri on Wednesday, Obama and his wife, Michelle, watched with rapt attention as a male and female pair glided and turned in graceful precision across a small patch of open floor in front of their table.
We've seen an explosion of talent come out of the city in recent years, with fresh talent like Air Max '97, Andras & Oscar, Francis Inferno Orchestra and Fantastic Man catapult themselves to the rapt attention of an international audience, and define the deep and woozy sound of Melbourne house music.
Luckily, the things that have fallen out of favor at the Expo don't include the more benign type of alien encounter, which is why Linda Moulton Howe, a famous UFO journalist and researcher, was telling a rapt crowd about a religious experience that brought her, literally and spiritually, to her knees.
Racing across images, like a dog straining at a leash, to scrutinize small details, or watching with rapt attention as a $20 bill floats to earth, the camera plays the role of a narrator whose manner is amused, skeptical and not at all inclined to allow itself to become sentimentally involved.
Collins leaves the broken gaze of the pale man and re-enters the stream, where, as the troops begin to move, as the alert for armed and dangerous jihadi in Washington goes red, as the martial laws enter into motion, there can only ever be more for the just enough rapt.
GoT has fans rapt this final season because we aren't sure who to align ourselves with: These women are more public-facing than ever, and the scrutiny is real both on and off the screen (check out Twitter on Sunday nights and Monday mornings for literally thousands of examples of this scrutiny).
People like Vivienne Westwood or Gianni Versace encouraged the beauties they hired — exceptional types like Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington, Carla Bruni — to translate on the catwalk not only their professional chops but their love of the moment, the camera's lens, the rapt attention of the claques they attracted and even, occasionally, the clothes.
The strongest counterexample to this is "Climax," his collaboration with 6lack, which features a run where Thug pushes his voice to and past the point of breaking in a way that underscores that passage's emotional weight, but you'd be forgiven if the tape's opening two songs lull you out of rapt attention.
" He added that Mr. Lewis, as writer, director and actor, inherently trusted "the public's intelligence, and their culture," continuing, "Everybody understood at the time that 'The Bellboy' was a rapt homage to Stan Laurel, the thinking man of the Laurel and Hardy duo — exactly like Jerry when he was Dean Martin's sidekick.
"For many years of my life, I've had random white people come to me and ask me about where my last name came from, and I would just look them in the face and say, very politely: 'Slavery'," Mr. O'Hara told the rapt gathering at New 217nd Street Studios, quieting the lingering chitchat.
On October 7, Kurtis Blow and Tiger JK's new band MFBTY -- launched in 2013 with his wife Tasha Yoon Mirae and fellow rapper Bizzy -- performed before a rapt audience in Irvine, displaying the immense global influence of hip-hop and the complexity of its evolution as it has crossed boundaries and bridged cultures.
"No matter what subject or genre he tackles, Miloš finds the universality of the human experience in every story, allowing us -- his rapt audience -- to recognize ourselves within the struggle for free expression and self-determination that Miloš so aptly portrays on the silver screen," past DGA President Taylor Hackford said at the time.
But mostly, the audience sat rapt as the actors ran through the story of the ultimate Greek hero, who returned home from his 12 labors to kill the usurper who had taken over his household, only to fall into madness and murder his own wife and children with his invincible weapon, the bow of Apollo.
What most people understand this word to mean—spinning out a narrative from beginning to end, or emotively reading a large thin book to an audience of rapt toddlers at a public library—is not quite the definition Kobe is going for here, or what Storytelling means in the stories that Success Studies tells and sells.
The scene, which saw Björk wearing a mask and deejaying from behind a screen of foliage, drew a mix of responses, ranging from positive to negative to "WTF?" from both audiences and music critics ("The crowd remained rapt and respectful but didn't always seem to know what to do," hedged Joey Guerra at the Houston Chronicle).
We need to understand that when Thoreau sat in the dooryard of his cabin "from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery, amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds sang around or flitted noiseless through the house," he was offering counsel and example exactly suited for our perilous moment in time.
Just a few weeks later -- a blink of the eye in the usual workings of public policy -- I watched the TV in rapt attention and amazement as Kofi joined George W. Bush in the White House Rose Garden for the President's announcement that the US would become the first country to join the new Global Fund.
But the star of the evening was the actor Frank Langella, a close friend of Ms. Cook's over the last 20 years of her life, and who, in his 10-minute speech, shared both the most poignant and the funniest stories of the night, moving the rapt audience of several hundred from muffled sobs to hysterical laughter.
Maybe it was the one-day break they just had, but for about a half hour Monday afternoon all 100 senators sat rapt at their desks while the former Bill Clinton independent counsel and newfound addition to the president's legal defense team likened impeachment to war and urged an acquittal vote to avoid long-term constitutional consequences.
Since Ocasio-Cortez landed in DC earlier this week, the 29-year-old has provided her 606,000 Instagram followers with a constant stream of unfiltered dispatches about her new life in the Capitol, and what one can only assume is a large share of them have logged on every day to watch with rapt attention—the more mundane the better.
But though I paid rapt attention during the afternoon and evening I spent at "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," which opened in a blaze of outrageous enchantment on Monday night at the Palace Theater here, I failed to pick up on any recipe for inducing post-tell-all amnesia in Muggles, which is Potter-speak for nonwizards like you and me.
Maybe that's the miracle here: that ordinary people whose lives have become so easy to classify into categories like rural poor, drug-dependent, products of the criminal justice system, possess the weight and the value of the mythic — and not only after death; that 13-year-olds like Jojo might be worthy of our rapt attention while their lives are just beginning.
Moar Bikes is actually selling three models of the Moar: the budget "Sun & Fun" model for $999, a more advanced $1,199 "24/7" version that adds headlights, a larger battery, and better braking sensors, and the top-of-the-line $1,999 "Rapt" which has a more powerful 750W motor, the largest battery (for a claimed 50- to 80-mile range), and hydraulic-assisted disk brakes.
Devoted, rapt, they are the lesser moons surrounding the saturnine gravitas of Susan Miller, who, walking onstage to a seat flanked by a pair of Victorian palms amid a backdrop of vintage wallpaper blooming with faded constellations of daffodils, promptly thanks everyone for coming, inquires as to which zodiac sign audience members are by a show of hands, and implores her attendees to try the pastries.
Among the crowd were lads clutching pints, dreadlocked Glastonbury stalwarts, and an LGBTQ community who, from my pissed-up chats in the smoking area, seemed to come from all over the UK. It was an eclectic but rapt audience for Denim, a troupe of drag queens from London there to perform the campest rendition of Florence + The Machine's "Spectrum" imaginable, flanked – no less – by Florence Welch herself.
Aside from the astronauts who made history — including Alan B. Shepard Jr., with his suborbital flight; John Glenn, in orbiting the Earth; and Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, the first to land on the lunar surface — Mr. Kraft was the most familiar face of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's early years, the steady ground commander who often explained missions to a rapt world at news conferences.
I, myself, use the mute button pretty vigorously; maybe you flip or tweet or pace or find some other way to downshift into energy-saver mode, but you certainly do not sit there rapt, as dialed-in to every oafish attempt by a macro-brew to convince you that it Has Integrity as you are to the ostensibly fun stuff that brought you there in the first place.
The new app from Vine&aposs cofounder is already being teased as a true competitor to TikTok, but it still has a long way to go before it reaches the viral fame TikTok achieved in the US.The debut of Byte on Friday was met with rapt attention from creators and fans who adored the six-second video app Vine and mourned its death when Twitter shut it down in 2016.
Eat We had really nice times, restaurants and I. There were the years when I worked for a food magazine with an expense account, and the years when my wife and I lived free of day care and diaper bills, so there are happy memories: the time I saw her weep, overcome by the flavor of a dish of strawberries; the time we spent an entire meal, rapt, watching servers glide toward tables, their dishes alighting in balletic unison.
Christine Blasey Ford struggled to retain her composure on Thursday as she described in gripping detail before a rapt Senate panel how she was sexually assaulted at a party as a high school student — she says by Brett Kavanaugh, President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's nominee to the Supreme Court.
Just as he allowed himself a cheeky, ironic smile at his singing a song about the titillation of fascism to a rapt Berlin audience in a Nazi stadium, I think he would have understood there was something inevitable about Trump, that these realities have to be confronted before we can steer a path away from them, that the less willing we are to acknowledge them, the more likely they are to surface in ever more frightening and unexpected ways.
Within his collection of life's human ailments and existential tonics, he details love's many symptoms: "But the symptoms of the mind of lovers are almost infinite, and so diverse that no art can comprehend them; though they be merry sometimes, and rapt beyond themselves for joy, yet most part, love is a plague, a torture, an hell, a bitter-sweet passion at last..."Love, both an agent of melancholy and its long-practiced treatment, is still studied as such a sickness; some psychologists look at love as a temporary insanity, largely driven by a complex cocktail of hormones, neurobiological processes, and social conditioning.

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