rapture

A second coming of Rapture-minded evangelicalism is always one catastrophe, book, revival, or Nicolas Cage movie away.

The book was optioned to HBO in 2011, around the time evangelist Harold Camping claimed The Rapture would occur—on May 21, 2011.

We can feel his sad cadences and the rapture of language in the Gettysburg Address.

There is a phrase for the foreigners' rapture: mal d'afrique.

Most recently, Harold Camping went bust predicting that the Rapture would take place on May 21, 2011.

Since that memorable night of mingled joy and despair, I thought not that such rapture awaited me again on earth.

However, all seemed to do very well, and no one ever came into her room without some degree of rapture about Mr. Ernescliffe.

Her face wore an expression of mystic rapture like that characterizing the features of some Chinese Buddhas.

I longed to hear her and to see her always; I would have died in rapture at her side, but I was never fain to wed her.

It was the first time she had ever given him more than her hand to kiss, and the rapture repaid him for all.