Word: rapt
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...also the most prominently featured, and because everyone delivers and reacts to dialogue with a mixture of freshness and precision. Rachel Siegel's Victoria is the most compelling figure on the stage. She exhibits fine-tuned control in the role, evidenced by her ability to hold the audience rapt throughout a lengthy, silent reverie on her past sexual exploits. Siegel is able to simultaneously communicate the Victorian facade of Victoria, the manic sexual voracity lurking behind this exterior and the surprisingly human needs and doubts which underlie this destructive sexuality...
...rapt Senate panel listened sympathetically to white separatist Randy Weaver's account of the deadly standoff that occurred between his family and the FBI at his remote Ruby Ridge, Idaho, cabin in 1992. The encounter, which began when federal agents came to arrest Weaver on firearms charges, resulted in the shooting death of Weaver's wife, his son and a federal marshal--and accusations that the FBI used excessive force to end the siege and then tried to cover it up. In their testimony, federal law-enforcement officials defended their initial decision to bring firearms charges against Weaver. The Justice...
...rapt audience carefully weighs the well-rehearsed answer, word by word...
...What are you afraid of?' and you know out there that I have not been afraid for a long, long time. That's one thing you have to learn to throw away. We have the opportunity, even at the risk of death, of saving this nation ..." The crowd listens, rapt...
...believe this?" Bob Dole said in Dover, New Hampshire, recently. "You ever seen anything like this?" Dole's incredulity was due in equal measure to the huge size of the crowd and the rapt, respectful attention he was receiving. "The rest of the country may think it's early," Dole said. "Up here they know better. This deal's gonna be over in a year...