Word: awe
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...game, you try to take shots that are of the highest percentage,” Keyser said. “I just wound up being in the position to take the high percentage shots.”Keyser’s performance left her teammates in awe.“Arin carried the team,” Gardner said. “She really stepped up when we needed her to. It was so much motivation for her to go out and take care of buisness.”The 6-5 margin that Harvard overcame was the first deficit...
WHAT THE BUZZ IS SAYING: At the Toronto Film Festival, where both Capote and Brokeback Mountain were launched, Ledger's performance was the one that earned the awe. But Academy members want a little showmanship in the roles they recognize (that's why Hustle & Flow's Terrence Howard is another viable contender), and it's Hoffman who is a one-man show...
...People have lost their sense of awe and idealism,” he offers. “They’ve lost their sense of gratitude, wonder.” Too much work, not enough sleep, he says. And in his six years as a resident tutor in Leverett House—much of which he spent “hanging out in the dining hall”—he has seen students grow less and less concerned with their well-being while over-extending themselves more and more in their extracurriculars...
...with competing urges for independence and intimacy. It was familiar ground for the Tony winner who, resisting pleas from her parents, remained steadfastly single. She gave birth at 48 and chronicled her daughter's premature delivery and months in a neonatal ICU in an achingly poignant essay, "Days of Awe." Although the warmth and humor in her work often camouflaged its weightiness, she was also angry, intensely private and political--a contradiction that drove such characters as Heidi, the single professor who in the end adopts a child and openly mourns her personal sacrifices...
...each other in loving silence?Malick attempts to convey his message about love and colonialism through symbolism rather than dialogue. Smith, Rolfe, and Pocahontas each represent different ways of encountering both the new world and personal relationships—colonial expansion and restlessness, development and domesticity, and appreciation and awe, respectively. Yet, these archetypes can’t really substitute for the real development of ideas, character development and plot that made Malick’s earlier films, such as “Badlands” and “The Thin Red Line,” so memorable. Malick?...