Word: awe
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...stimuli may trigger an emotion in one social context but not in another, he said. And some emotions, such as compassion and awe, can only exist in a social framework...
...visible on news kiosks across the country. The Chinese magazine Business World featured his plans to become a mobile-phone magnate. A new book, The Holley Breakthrough, celebrates his firm, best known for selling electricity meters, as "the model of the Made-in-China era." But the greatest awe is for Wang's acquisition of foreign companies, especially public ones, a strategy with great symbolic value in an era in which China wants to assert itself as a global investor, not just an exporter...
Hall’s bout at No. 1 against Yale freshman Michell Quibell proved to be the deciding match last night, and both teams gathered to watch the crucial battle, punctuating awe-filled silence with raucous cheering at the end of every point...
Pearl laughs off any awe at his ability to undertake such a labor-intensive project in the face of the rigors of law school...
...this weekend, there was no awe in Winter’s eyes when he hit two free throws to give Harvard a late lead against Princeton. Nor was there any Palestra-induced hesitation in Jason Norman when—for a two-minute stretch, anyway—he became a profile of cornrowed fury, throwing down breakaway dunks on consecutive possessions to spark a first-half rally that kept the game close...