Word: awe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Students expressed a mix of awe and excitement at the prospect of observing the eclipse from the open air garden adjoining the Masters' home...
...president and a country cannot leap to greatness with the support of the people and without clear, positive goals. That is the challenge of the next president, and that is the challenge of this election year. Those who doubt that need only visit the library and stare in awe at the ocean through Pei's glass-enclosed pavilion. That is the awe we need our president to inspire...
...Ecclesiastes 3: 3 in the King James? Should they know, or care? If no one any longer reads the same words on the same page, on what basis will people talk to and understand each other? Will easy-read Bibles, rendering ancient mysteries and miracles in sitcom terms, inspire awe or channel surfing? Are many Good Books too much of a good thing...
...world long fascinated by legends and fantasies about the Red Planet, the news had an electrifying effect, inspiring awe, disbelief, excitement--and, from not a few experts, skeptically raised eyebrows. The importance of the putative discovery was underscored by an immediate response from the White House. "Today Rock 84001 speaks to us across all those billions of years and millions of miles," proclaimed President Clinton as he set off for a three-day campaign swing through California. "It speaks of the possibility of life. If this discovery is confirmed, it will surely be one of the most stunning insights into...
...just this sort of ambivalence, as reflected through the layered performances, that make the movie appealingly believable: unlike with many Hollywood productions, we feel more empathy than awe or shock. The film has the uncanny ability to make a snide audience realize they're really groaning at their own actions lit up on screen...