Word: awe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meter. This movement produced a new but equally otherwordly sound bolstered by the BSO's surprisingly powerful (in this instance) brass section. The net effect of the symphony, as full of fresh ideas today as it must have seemed in 1959, was not bemusement but rather awe and fascination...
History may not look back on Spudstock '95 with awe. In fact, it may not look back...
...decade later, after a stint at the Washington Star, Stacks was news editor of our Washington bureau during the Watergate investigation. His colleagues of those days remember his savvy and energy with awe. "He had the ability to track every twist of the story without losing the thread,'' says contributor Bonnie Angelo. "He knew what was major right away...
...Amis hasn't made any waves on this side of the Atlantic...At Oxford, Amis is a normal topic of discussion." That statement is a firm justification for doing away with those semester-abroad programs. The pompous and presumptuous Hagar had just the perfect amount of self-righteousness and awe of the crown to be an absurd satire in an Amis novel. John Burke Boston...
...view, the book runs its words over Robert's body as if they were the fingers or lips of a new lover. He is hard, an animal, physical and spiritual. Her orgasms are liberating, exhausting visits to a land where he is king. ("Robert," she exclaims in postcoital awe, "you're so powerful, it's frightening!") In the age of facetiousness, could any director film this without giggling? Would any actor dare display himself as such a paragon of pagan love...