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The dog seemed to pay rapt attention to Burton when he spoke, but responded to Taylor as if she wasn't there.

He leant his two elbows on his knees, and his chin on his hands and remained rapt in dumb meditation.

Before that she had attracted rather little national attention beyond the rapt circles of the tea-party movement.

He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

Glaucus was the most rapt and the least inclined to break the silence .

There was a rapt look on his face whenever he looked at his sweetheart.

Speed and Emotion: Sometimes, the audience seemed rapt attention, and in fact is not the case, may be absent entirely.

The wild war between the two sometimes bickering giants had the technology and M&A worlds in rapt attention.

It encourages the would-be American poet to rely too exclusively on a rapt and bardic intuition .

After she finished the whole poem word-perfectly, my friends and i were already rapt in wonder.

Please stop eating for a moment and pay rapt and worshipful attention.

As I faced a crowd of well-dressed financial advisers from premier Wall Street banks, there were cheers and rapt applause.

We immediately asked the grandfather for several weeks, then weeks Grandpa told us some stories, we listened with rapt attention everybody.

But he and others described the nightly rampages without fear, surrounded by groups of younger boys who listened with rapt attention.

There, I would explain why the dinosaurs disappeared and how mankind evolved from our primitive forebears. She seemed rapt.

Her face rapt, she gazed at the radar images of storm clouds sweeping through the tristate area.

I forgot all else, I shunned all the world, I gazed in rapt contemplation at the image I HAD set upon the altar.

sat completely still, enraptured by the music; listened with rapt admiration; rapt in reverie.

Powerful male voice in a tide of harmony swirl over a rapt audience.

Except for an occasional whispered question , he sat in rapt attention .

I see my boys (12-year-old twins) playing with dinner candles just as I did at their age, with the same rapt fascination.

I listened, rapt, as professional trainers explained how they taught dolphins to flip and elephants to paint.

Being rapt in writing was something prehistorical for me till then.

Holding hands, they dangled their feet over the edge, rapt in beauty.

They listen with rapt attention to the holy sermons of the saints and learned Jain scholars arranged during the ten-day festival.

I had never before been listened to with such rapt intensity.

Ramon studied Margaret's rapt attention to detail as she worked on the sculpture .

She sat with a rapt expression reading her book.

But whenever she listened with rapt attention, the sound would fade quietly.

one of them was listening with rapt attention , while the other was running.

Now, after 11 years, the feud has ended, with Vanzant and Oprah airing their differences last month in front of a rapt audience of millions.

On his face lay the intense rapt look of the religious fanatic.

Yet again, Chelsea's steel glinted in front of a rapt audience.

listened with rapt admiration; rapt in reverie.

listened to the speaker with rapt admiration.

I remember once in class, you sounds appealing to lectures, the students are listening with rapt attention.

In fact, he was rapt, glassy-eyed, having at last some profound insight as to how to think about gravity.

No wonder she held people in rapt attention at dinner parties, in line at the market, at bus stops.

And some jobs will even require you speak before a full auditorium of rapt listeners.

She sat with rapt expression reading her book.

eg: The music was so beautiful I was almost in tears, rapt by its power.

was rapt In thought all evenIng.

Banquo Look how our partner's rapt.

He didn't hear the doorbell because he was rapt in his work.

He was rapt in thought [his work].

She is rapt in her work.

Do I have your rapt attention? We have a lot to go over today.

In a room of her house which looks into the Garden and over the harbor, Butterfly stands rapt in thought

People who are good listen, often with rapt attention, to their bodies. Their body tells them what to do and they do it.

My friend was rapt with this young lady he'd met.

Jake plays to the rapt crowd as he says --

if we should be rapt away into all that we dream of heaven

Rapt When someone is very pleased about something

Sit for hours in rapt joy, I hope never ends

be rapt in one's new job