awe

But here Dudamel became more simply an architect of awe, unfazed by Mahlerian uncertainty as he worked his way to an inevitable cosmic grandeur unfazed by uncertainty.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

This isn’t the kind of film that gets Oscar nominations, but Arianne Phillips and Monica Chamberlain’s bonkers costuming, all candy colors and asymmetrical shapes, deserves recognition, or at least awe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

"By year two you could see that development. He made some plays where you were in awe on the sideline."

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

Even at the lowest point of a wind turbine, Witek expresses his awe at "the feeling of freedom" compared to the fourteen years he spent at the bottom of a mine.

From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026

In fact, that very evening, after a celebratory cup of tea, Major Puff took up his marching practice around the burrow while the hare looked on in quiet yet twitchy awe.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

That tidbit elicited oohs, awes and cheers from the crowd at Boston’s Wang Theater.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2023

The keyboard introduction to What Was I Made For?, taken from the recent soundtrack to the Barbie movie, draws gasps and "awes" from around the field.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2023

The pace of building in South Korea awes, but there are gripes that the quality of public exhibitions, and professional standards, varies widely.

From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2023

While Churchill awes spectators with its size and scope, on par with the world’s monumental stadiums, Keeneland, opened in 1936, guards its idyllic appeal.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2021

There is an innocence in him that I have found merely foreign and foolish; yet in another moment that seeming innocence reveals a discipline of knowledge and a largeness of purpose that awes me.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

The total eclipse plunged a vast swathe of Spain from broad daylight into darkness Wednesday, drawing awed gasps and applause from spectators gathered in parks and cities across the country.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

"You've got to be awed by it all, which I never cease to be."

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

It’s only humans who have attached words like “wild” and “unexplored” to regions where they feel uncertain, afraid, and even awed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

Some might find it humanizing—proof that below the bloviating gestalt, the president can become awed by existential futility.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

I was awed by how many of the languages I didn't know.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson

He has a unique capacity for memorizing data that he frequently recites, awing listeners.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2023

Inside the Sistine Chapel, where in the past I have been shoved and elbowed by the crowds, about 30 spectators were awing over Perugino’s frescoes and craning to see Michelangelo’s burly musclemen on the ceiling.

From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2021

Doing the things only she can do, awing her peers while trying to silence her inner critic in the process.

From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2021

The idea is to terrify the enemy: the effect will be to petrify ourselves, shocking and awing us into understanding the full implications of no deal.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 29, 2019

For the first time he saw the awing vastness of the desert, and the soft pastel shades which made their desolation beautiful.

From 'Me--Smith' by Gayle Porter Hoskins