Word: awe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...love, we are speechless; in awe, we say, words fail...
...years I agonized when my teams lost and gloated when they won. I yelled at and cheered for players. I watched in awe as big quarterbacks and tall centers squinted at press cameras...
...still evokes awe. Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere, who beat Navratilova twice in 1990 but was steamrollered at the Garden last week, says, "I really don't think she's getting any less good. There are days when she plays the best tennis she has ever played. She just has more ups and downs." When asked about her highlights of 1992, Navratilova cites two victories and, unthinkable a few years ago, a defeat by the current No. 1, Monica Seles, at Wimbledon. "I looked at the videotape, and it was much closer than I thought," she says with a smile. A couple...
...appearance or mumbled through a standard stump speech. Clinton, his voice hoarse, told an audience of about 300 supporters that if they would stick with him through that trial, "I'll remember you until the last dog dies." It was a deeply emotional appeal that those present recall with awe, and an example of the sheer persistence and indomitable will that enabled him to survive that crucial first primary...
Throughout the play, overblown production techniques inadvertently makes the play more funny than awe-inspiring. The final scene, a bitter exchange between Jason and Medea, is a case in point. The chariot from Euripides' play is here replaced with a gargantuan elevator/space ship device complete with glowing neon tubes. Medea, suspended in this contraption, curses Jason through the chain link fence while industrial music crashes away and lights flash. Dwarfed by the "E.T"-like production, the exchange itself seems rather trifling...