overawe
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Many had wondered whether the occasion would overawe Cameron, but she cut a relaxed figure as 'Don't worry about a thing' rang out during her ring walk.
From BBC ● May 20, 2023
Since conversion was thought to excuse conquest, these devotional artworks had to overawe their viewers.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2022
The West is more immediate and can still overawe the spectator with substantial remnants of its old annihilating grandeur.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2017
Hoping to overawe the people of the land, Lewis would let out a blast of his air rifle, a relatively new piece of technology the Native Americans had never seen.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
Jonathan’s impetuosity, and the manifest singleness of his purpose, seemed to overawe those in front of him; instinctively they cowered, aside and let him pass.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
In the same way, these young people live in the light of the history of cinema, of the great age of Hollywood and the classic European cinema that also overarches and overawes the moderns.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2014
"The building is a personal statement by Rudolph," he says, "and it overawes a student who is looking for a place to make his own personal statement."
From Time Magazine Archive
As long as the dome overawes, that facade is supportable.
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by William Makepeace Thackeray
With a majesty that overawes, a voice that will be heard, an influence that cannot be resisted, it renews the world, and will eventually diffuse its unsetting glory through every part of the habitual globe.
From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II by Francis Augustus Cox
It is the religious aspect of your enterprise which impresses and overawes men of every sect and party.
From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Archibald Henry Grimké
Her odds of winning matches are certainly favourable at Wimbledon, especially if she faces a relatively inexperienced opponent who may get overawed by what is bound to be an electric occasion on Centre Court.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
Chelsea, winners of the past six WSL seasons and the current holders of all three domestic titles, looked like a team in headlights, completed overawed by City.
From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2026
Thirdly, Djokovic knows his aura - as well as his game - has overawed Musetti in the past, ensuring he remains the favourite to reach the last four.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2026
He is 27, so should be at his peak, old enough to not be overawed by the Premier League stage.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2025
Despite his haste, his panic, his fear of what awaited him back in the bathroom, he could not help but be overawed by what he was looking at.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
For some young players, the attention might be overawing.
From BBC ● May 30, 2025
The first album I'd ever bought was Ziggy Stardust and I owned all his others, so it was overawing, but he was really generous as a performer.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2013
The Europe through which his couple move is one of soft colors, handsome but not overawing.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nowhere among these republics have great military establishments ever been maintained for the purpose of overawing or subjugating other nations.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was the stronger mind, made stronger by the force of love, overawing the weaker, made weaker by the prostration of the affections.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various
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