overawe
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Since conversion was thought to excuse conquest, these devotional artworks had to overawe their viewers.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2022
The challenge of Test cricket would not overawe him.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 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
I am always a fool, the presence of other men overawes me; I sit meek and take all that comes, and then make my escape.
From The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow by Upton Sinclair
Still Brutus overawes him by his moral energy and elevation of character, and by the open-faced rectitude and purity of his principles.
From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Ebenezer Charlton Black
In the midst of a wilderness, at every step, one meets with tokens of a bygone power that overawes the imagination.
From Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century by Giuseppe Garibaldi
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
Neither looked overawed until O'Rourke returned for another nasty spell late in the day.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 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
Outplayed and overawed in the first set, a superb backhand winner gave the Frenchwoman a crucial break in the second set.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2025
A moment later, I spotted the young Mr Cardinal not far away, still standing on his own, and it struck me the young gentleman might be feeling somewhat overawed in the present company.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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
He had shut the door behind him, and stood in the middle of the room facing Wodehouse, and overawing him by his superior stature, force, and virtue.
From The Perpetual Curate by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
