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Osage County First Grade listen raptly as I show the drawing of a head and explain how and where sounds are made as we speak.

Her latest literary work, "In Too Deep" is an eloquently crafted story that will raptly engage the reader's total attention from beginning to end.

In Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy, Carlson raptly portrays the heroics of Dan Ellis ("Old Red Fox"), Melvina Stephens, and numerous other guides who led Browne and Richardson to Union troops near Knoxville on January 13, 1865.

The work stages the almost physical fusion with social media that is a characteristic of the networked society, as is the craving for meaningless information that has us staring raptly even at circles.

We listened raptly as the chat turned to the goings on down 'the old end' and we were captivated by the way those tales were told: in the vigorous speech of working-class Brum.

The children filling the house at the opening-day preview were raptly intent throughout, with a gleeful outbreak during the finale and euphoria during the "Green Eggs and Ham" curtain call.

Children in the first- and second-grade classes at Westmoreland listened raptly as US Bank Branch Manager Eileen Kelton read the story by Portland author and financial adviser John Wrenn.

Vasari praises Pisanello for his draughtsmanship and says 'he took a special delight in depicting animals', a statement that is confirmed by Pisanello's many raptly meticulous drawings.

Every day, she watches raptly as Dr David Ravell, played by actor George McCord (Greg Kinnear), looks dashing in his hospital scrubs and tries to come to terms with the death of his wife.

Many have followed their leader to remote rainforests, sharing the excitement of spotting a rare specimen in the wild and listening raptly as Wiehler - "a born teacher," says one longtime member - stands by the find and eloquently explains its every characteristic.

It is the crowd, not the rack or the wheel, that Hannibal Lecter, "connoisseur of facial cheeses," is raptly studying.

I had seen the play 18 times, and it never dawned on me that, although we attend to Hamlet's philosophical musings raptly, we really want--but don't expect--to be swept away on a wave of empathy.