Word: awe
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...slamming America, was right on the money [GLOBAL AGENDA, March 11]. Our 20th century was horrible indeed, and twice the U.S. had to bail Europe out. Military cemeteries in France, Belgium and the Netherlands are reminders. Though we older people will never forget the wars and still stand in awe when we visit these cemeteries, a new generation is totally estranged from this history. In Kosovo, U.S. forces again had to quench fires in the heart of Europe that Europeans were loath to put out. We holler when the U.S. rightly fights international terrorism, which is also close...
...that the speed of his fingers would just blur the big screen overhead with fuzzy pixels of light. As though he need to prove his famed talent, Q-Bert proceeded to mix a great track entirely based on scratching—sans the mixer. Jaws dropped in amazement and awe throughout the audience...
...monster strike a deal—the monster will return to society and not kill anyone if Beatrice agrees to find the scientist who can destroy him. But what’s the use of a monster in a society that has lost its collective capacity for awe? “I mean, don’t you think the idea of a monster today is just so irrelevant?” a reporter asks the beast in a live televised interview. Not surprisingly, the media ends up being the true monster of the story. In the journalists of Beatrice?...
Once The Rookie gets over itself and starts to tell its story rather than be in awe of it, it’s really quite wonderful. There are basically two plots: the high school team’s quest for the pennant and Morris’ journey to overcome his doubts and achieve the glory of which he is capable. That’s not one but two inspiring stories, meaning the potential for cliché is dangerously high...
...suicidal depression that has haunted his adulthood as well as what should have been the most carefree years of his life. It started in1982, when he entered the St. Thomas Aquinas preparatory seminary in Hannibal largely because of his admiration for a childhood parish pastor who "represented the awe I had for priests...