Word: awe
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...When he skated, I watched in awe," Weinstein recalls of his coach. "When I was 12, during Olympic trials, he wrote my workout program. From then on, we started working together...
...soon as we get over the initial awe of seeing skin all stretched to kingdom come, what's uneasy about the pictures is the composure of the subjects: unflustered, comfortable, blank. Since these are self-portraits, we know that the models are happy to sit for the camera or cameras, and probably remain themselves unscathed. As in funhouse mirrors there is therefore an uncanny disjuncture between what you see and what they feel, and we're hard-pressed not to gather the skins in our minds' eyes back into something a little more presentable. Picking out bits here and there...
...wilderness of the United States and pockets of the country where her experiences have yet to take her. As she sat in her rural, Western Massachusetts home during her interviewoa two and a half hour commute from Cambridge that she travels everyday in her gray-colored, old jeeposhe expressed awe at the landscape beyond her window...
...need awe in my life. The Internet experience doesn't awe me. The act of sitting at a computer is so unaesthetic and unsexy--all those cables, that horrid fluorescent screen, those puny two-dimensional images. Give me a human voice over e-mail. I like the sound of communicative delivery--the tone of voice, the innuendo. Of course, I appreciate convenience when I'm using a search engine to find gifts, vacations or pieces of information. But as a way to spend leisure time--not for me. The closer the World Wide Web seems to bring us together...
...pray at home. But a church, mosque or synagogue gives prayer scale, grace and a heightened sense of spirituality because of the aura of sacred ritual deemed appropriate within the religious house. People cling to ritual. It gives structure and comfort to chaos. It creates a sense of awe...