Word: raptness
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What Clark wants, apparently, is to ballroom dance. During his nightly subway ride home, he spies a woman staring out the window of Miss Mitzi’s Dance Studio and, rapt by her poise, he decides to enroll secretly for beginner’s lessons...
...contrast to most of civilization, this quaint town, about a square mile large, matters only to those who know its people intimately. Here, terrorism is almost a foreign word. Though the townspeople of Mansonville sympathize with 9-11 victims and follow each development in the war on terror with rapt attention, they have other, more immediate concerns. In Mansonville, the summer’s top stories are that hardware store owner’s son, Paul, died in a bike accident and that the butcher, Hamelin, has to have surgery again. Unlike Americans, the citizens of rural Quebec...
Scalia held the rapt attention of the jam-packed John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum last night, although some students and faculty said they were put off by his conservative judicial philosophy...
Denune explains that he watched the most complex juggling sequences with a mixture of rapt attention and fear that at any moment, a ball could fall from orbit...
...couple of easy questions like "What's four plus three?" and "Do you like to draw?", he finally got his audience warmed up and eased them on to the heavier topic of truth, lies and secrets. "When is it not better to tell the truth?" Phillips asked his now rapt audience. "When is it good to lie?" Mariela, 10, who has severe asthma, replied, "When you're trying to help somebody escape from something like slavery...