Lana

If people know anything about Russians, we do things really over the top. We wear high heels everywhere. We show up in the most extravagant outfits. I am just embodying how I was raised and what I grew up in. Some people might think we're extra; I just think we're ravishing.

American Wrestler

Margo Jefferson

As the years pass, I find that writers who were once central to me aren't anymore. I revered Yeats's poetry in college. I respect it now and am still ravished by certain lines, but I don't go back to him again and again. I do go back to Emily Dickinson again and again.

American Critic

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

American Philosopher

Eileen Atkins

One of the things I love about Helena Bonham Carter is that she is ravishing, but she does as much as she can to play it down and look funny. She doesn't let her looks get in the way. I hugely respect that.

English Writer

Ricky Steamboat

I learned early on as a baby-face you had adapt to their style. Ravishing Rick Rude had his own style and his own way with a little bit of some Ric Flair-isms. But I always learned to adapt myself.

American Writer

Jerry Saltz

Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.

Robert Gottlieb

River of Light,' to a dense but powerful score commissioned from Charles Wuorinen and with ravishing lighting by Mark Stanley, has depth and resonance.

I embody 'Ravishing.' I come out in the most ravishing dress. I have a ravishing entrance. I'm ravishing people's hearts.

Tina Louise

I don't think I was ravishing, but I think I was pretty.

American Actress

Ronald Firbank

English Novelist

Used to describe experiencing overwhelming positive feelings, like extreme joy or pleasure.

Positive Emotion

Often used metaphorically to describe the impact of something intensely pleasing to the senses.

Metaphorical Use

Use 'ravish' figuratively to express deep admiration or being emotionally moved.

Figurative Expression

Use this definition with caution due to its strong, negative connotation involving sexual violence.

Cautious Usage

Understand that this use of 'ravish' is mostly seen in historical or literary contexts.

Historical Context

Be aware that this concept is sensitive and could cause distress due to its associated violence.

Sensitive Subject

 These brainy primates were not particularly fast or strong. But they excelled at covering ground, and in a remarkable diaspora surpassing even the dinosaurs' record of territorial conquest, they dispersed across the planet, ravishing every ecosystem they encountered,

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 one male occupies a central position which is more attractive to the hens it takes seven years before the male's mature and acquire their ravishing plumes

Ravish

Positive Emotion

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