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• n  a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion
  listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens
• n  a state of elated bliss

• In 1901, while the nation mourned the assassinated President William McKinley, Alice, 17, was "filled with an extreme rapture," she later said.
• This was rapture made audible, palpable.
• But in his off-hours, he's the webmaster at raptureready.

• ecstasy
• transport
• exaltation
• raptus

News & Articles

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• 'Rapture-Palooza' review: Craig Robinson is the Anti-Christ in blasphemous stoner comedy
  If you're going to commit to a blasphemous stoner comedy mocking the New Testament prophesy of the coming Rapture, you'd better go all in. Because halfway isn't funny. And either way, you're going to Hell. At least in the eyes of some.
  June 14, 2013 - Zap2It
• Movie review: ‘This Is the End’ an apocalyptic comedy blast
  The rapture really shouldn’t be this fun.
  June 14, 2013 - The News-Herald
• Did we really need a raunchy comedy about the Rapture? Sorta
  Mark Hinson | Democrat senior writer -- If nothing else, you have to give credit to Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, who wrote and directed the irreverent Rapture comedy 'This Is the End,' for their sheer audacity.
  June 13, 2013 - Tallahassee Democrat

Quotes

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• John Shelby Spong in Contra Costa Times
  She later earned two master's degrees, and celebrated Episcopal Bishop John Spong praised her book, "From Rapture to Revelation."
• Ken MacLeod in New York Times
  The science fiction author Ken MacLeod described the idea of the singularity as "the Rapture of the nerds."
• Noel Gallagher in Sydney Morning Herald
  The strange thing is, is that the lyrics are all quite similar - they all mention God, and Jesus, and the f- - -ing light and the rapture, and angels,Noel says. "And that's happened very much by coincidence because none of us write...