Word: raptness
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...somber black pantsuits, the weak but polite smile she managed for news cameras, the strain that only occasionally surfaced on her heavily made-up face. When Faneuil finally appeared, a jolt of excitement was palpable in the courthouse. He proved such an engaging witness that he kept the room rapt. By the time defense attorneys got to cross-examine Faneuil on Wednesday, they badly needed to undermine his credibility...
...remember the museums of my youth. They were always filled with rapt people and a contemplative silence. A silence so intense, in fact, that once I avoided sitting down on a couch in the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) to avoid the noise the cushion would make...
...unveiling of your firm's grandest project yet, the one that will cement--or ruin--your international reputation. And you hope and pray no one notices your work. For acoustics designers like Yasuhisa Toyota, success arrives when an audience is rapt in the music, oblivious to the complicated physics it takes to project a Beethoven symphony with warmth and clarity. Toyota is the director of Nagata Acoustics, a tiny Tokyo company that has just completed a plum assignment: collaborating with architect Frank Gehry on the long-awaited $274 million Walt Disney Concert Hall, which opened to critical praise...
Richardson’s rapt attention to the lecture was interrupted around 10:20 a.m. when he committed his first lecture hall faux pas—leaving one’s cell phone on in class. He swiftly silenced his phone when it began blaring a trebly version of the theme from The Godfather...
NAACP Board Chair Julian Bond was watched with rapt attention when he spoke to a packed audience over dinner...