Word: awe
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...obsessed with how I'm going to get dressed, do my hair and apply my makeup with my dominant hand in a sling. Then I read Weisskopf's story. I am no longer worried about my situation. The courage exemplified by Weisskopf and the amputees at Walter Reed are awe inspiring and humbling...
Indeed, as we traveled that Saturday through downstate Illinois and then across the Mississippi into the mythic presidential-campaign state of Iowa, Obama seemed the political equivalent of a rainbow--a sudden preternatural event inspiring awe and ecstasy. Bill Gluba, a longtime Democratic activist who sells real estate on both sides of the river in the Quad Cities area, reminisced about driving Bobby Kennedy around Davenport, Iowa, on May 14, 1968. "I was just a teenaged kid," he says. "But I'll never forget the way people reacted to Kennedy. Never seen anything like it since--until this...
...surprised at the lack of details from the imperial court pertaining to the conception or birth of the royal heir. But I was perplexed and disappointed that TIME echoed the themes of Princess Kiko's "miraculous pregnancy" and the birth of a "miracle boy" with as much awe as if they were an immaculate conception and a divine birth. I expected TIME to report the factual aspects of such joyous news. Dolly Koghar Bangkok...
...know what? That’s OK. I can be at peace with that. The universe is composed of myriad mysteries, and by mysteries I mean blogs, and I stand in awe...
...Amish process of grieving, with its emphasis on forgiveness, is awe-inspiring. There appears to be no waiting period; already, one father of the victims has met with the family of Charles Roberts, the shooter, to show he bears no grudge. Though their culture does not allow the Amish to accept gifts from outside their community, they still have set up two funds for those who want to donate - one in name of the five victims, and one in name of the Roberts family...