awe
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"I'm slightly in awe of how easy she finds it all."
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
Feeling is more powerful than fact here, and Travolta leans hard into the dreamy, futuristic visual identity of the jet set age to evoke a childlike sense of awe in the viewer.
From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026
If “to toss and mangle these poor human bodies was the . . . law of Nature,” Thoreau asks us, “why waste any time in awe or pity?”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
Those ideas were made manifest in lavish PR material conjuring up fantastical landscapes that attracted reams of coverage that mingled awe and derision.
From BBC • May 25, 2026
“Butter my cheeks and call me a biscuit, you were incredible last weekend,” she said, and sighed in awe.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing awe
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