Word: awe
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Bartley still seems in awe of his own unexpected success as he reads over the awards...
...Prudhoe, one that extends only a few acres on the surface but can access 75 square miles underground, or fly over a convoy of trucks spraying water on the tundra to form ice roads strong enough to bear the weight of mobile drilling rigs is to be in awe of our industrial prowess. But to walk at sunset over the tundra of the refuge--where there is silence, an eternity of chill whiteness, a lone raven high overhead and the tracks of an Arctic fox leading toward snowcapped mountains under a pale sky of aquamarine and violet...
...because, for all the volume and vulgarity, the X-men can play. Iverson is--let's use a wuss phrase here--a joy to behold. He can sky, and he can hit with a hand or an entire team in his face. The personable O'Neal is a dominating, awe-inspiring center. Bryant, who leads the league in scoring with 29.9 points per game, is showing signs of turning Magic...
These objections, however, confuse the justifications for our moral beliefs with the contingent emotions that accompany them. I may feel a sense of awe at genetic individuality, but do I love my children only because I could not have predicted the color of their eyes? Respect for others' lives and well-being is too fundamental to be grounded in surprise; the argument has nothing to do with the morality of genetic engineering and everything to do with how other people (presumably bereft of Will's keen moral sense) will react...
...also come to light that humans have far fewer genes than was previously thought. In fact, in spite of our sense of evolutionary preeminence and structural complexity, the human body only has twice as many genes as a common fruit fly. Not exactly awe-inspiring...