Word: awe
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...have earned loads of cash, but his arrest has certainly earned Puchta some respect. "I am popular now. The bodyguards at Bailando step back in awe," he quips in reference to a celebrity reality-television contest...
Since the awe-inspiring Tokyo Midtown development opened in the Roppongi district in March, well-heeled residents of the Japanese capital have been flocking to its dining outlets, offices and boutiques. Issey Miyake is among the retail tenants of this $3 billion cathedral of commerce-but the leading fashion designer is hoping that shoppers and office workers will also make tracks for an intriguing, sleek structure located in a grassy corner of its 25-acre site...
...find yourself inside a resolutely abstract geometric volume that is also somehow a womb, a crater, an inlet and a chamber. By its powerful address to both the body and the subconscious, it sets in motion some very deep mental reflexes, including the ones having to do with anguish, awe and desire. Yet at the end, its greatest impact is simply as an abstract form that speaks in a language that pre-exists words...
...those documentaries that tells you everything you already know about its subject. It features many talking musicological heads, falling back in insight-free awe at the composer's apparently genial genius (a refreshing exception is the crankish Jonathan Miller, who has directed many a Mozart opera). Since Mozart traveled endlessly in search of gigs - 25,000 miles all told - the director, Phil Grabsky gives us many useless out-the-window shots of his own car chugging along modern European highways as he duplicates those journeys, many sequences of contemporary citizens wandering aimlessly and inelegantly in front of buildings Mozart visited...
...obvious with their critical comments. Following a few positive reader comments that were posted online about an article that I wrote, someone chimed in with this message: “I couldn’t agree more with the three prior comments. You are soooo sexy, brilliant, hilarious, and awe-inspiring. Some would even say godlike.” Now unfortunately for this commentator, I am fluent in sarcasm. Some would even say my sarcasm skills are godlike. So once I accurately deciphered this witty remark for its true meaning, I immediately sought therapy to help remind me that, despite...