Word: awe
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...It’s been just like shock and awe.... I think it will take many years to undo the damage. It’s a horrendous and serious blow to the university and one that undermines a lot of the genuine accomplishments of John Silber. That’s the irony,” the faculty member said...
When she photographed a Jewish giant at home with his parents or a Christmas tree in Levittown in fullest bleak regalia, Arbus was situated between complicity and awe, a place where irony is beside the point and mere compassion has been left behind for something like mordant communion. It all makes for some complicated feelings. There's not a false or sentimental image anywhere in this show, yet one of the final groupings of pictures, in which retarded children face the camera to throw us back at ourselves in difficult ways--can move you to places where tears...
...might ask, did a person of such humble origins rise to a position of such awe-inspiring power and prestige...
...other impulse at a conference like this is to be in awe. There?s a kind of jawdropping amazement one gets coming to the region. Despite regional woes like Japan?s seemingly endemic recession, Asian economic might is still awe inspiring when you think about what these countries were like 40 or 50 years ago. They were starving now there's cell phones everywhere. There?s something quietly magnificent about so much economic might sitting down at a table together to lift everyone?s collective standard of living. Sure, it?s goofy when thousands of journalists and businessmen...
...very special people, and what they’re going through is hell.” Carro stresses how vitally important it is that their stories be told. Allow me, then, to briefly share the story of Juan Carlos González Leiva, along with that of another awe-inspiring Cuban hero...