Critic's accolade

Usage examples of rave.

A gentleman of breeding would be perfectly able to understand that he should be apologizing instead of ranting and raving.

Interestingly, MacArthur, a recently emerged ayatollah, had raved on at one point about the gods putting the stars out.

She raved against me madly, and begged the mother-superior to send me away, as I had come there to damn her.

He praised the Chevalier twins, claiming their galerie had the best tapestries and antique rugs in all of Paris-which to him meant in all the world-and raved about Jacques Perrin, an aggressive dealer who was one of the first foreigners to exhibit at BLIrlington House-the London show that alternated years with the Biennale and admitted more foreign dealers than Grosvenor House.

Toxicologists and criminologists would do well to get wise to this side of their profession, for I am firmly convinced that all this raving of ratsbane, deadly nightshade, cyanide, dhatura and other subtle Hindu poisons in so many of our murder trials could be obviated by the application of a little common sense.

He had not ranted and raved but slipped on a coat and gone to Donnybrook Station with the three Special Branch detectives.

Rave Evermore had tracked the progress of one particular container from bin to bin within the hold and declared that it had accumulated several thousand kilometers of additional tRavel beyond its nominal interplanetary journey.

It was an interested observation, perhaps even an approving one, for Rave Evermore too liked to keep his own counsel.

It was during this slow time that Fent, who until now had been feverish and raving, made something of a recovery.

Wine mellows wi age, an old pots fotch big brass, An fowk rave ov antique this an that, An they worship grey stooans, an old booans, but alas!

It was slow going, and so far had yielded exactly nothing except a recipe for gazpacho that Gary had tried and raved over, but Luke still had hopes of finding a destination, a code, a sentence, something that made sense of the delivery.

And then Norvell had a bright idea and it took a lot more small bills to get the hackie to take them to Belly Rave and an hour to find Lana of the Wabbits.

The official excuse was unspecified breaches of contract but everyone knew that the real reasons were daring to put the longer version of The Portal in their act, upsetting the headliners by getting such a rave reception and the alleged connection between their Italian bootleg and the death of the youth in Sheffield.

Any slack in the conversation was picked up by Celeste, who raved on ad infinitum about Carter.

VooDoo got outside, Kyre helplessly watched him run across the street, cars skidding and swerving to avoid the raving lunatic wailing and running with his arms flailing.