Word: awe
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...pray at home. But a church, mosque or synagogue gives prayer scale, grace and a heightened sense of spirituality because of the aura of sacred ritual deemed appropriate within the religious house. People cling to ritual. It gives structure and comfort to chaos. It creates a sense of awe...
...cigarettes, hissed at us to be back to the set on time. Noah got up and approached guest Jonathan Alter, a former Crimson editor and current Newsweek correspondent. As Noah spoke, the rest of us surrounded him in a silent circle. But luckily, Alter took our silence as pure awe and invited us to follow him over to the Gore campaign party. Although none of us were enamored with the stoic VP, we decided that his shindig would be thoroughly more intriguing than trailing McCain to Nashua. Skating across the ice to the lovely Holiday Inn, we followed Alter...
...rather have a big meal than a good one. His friends were used to him grabbing the waiter to demand two large spoons and digging in first. One evening, when a huge bowl of soup was placed on the table, Joe announced, "Gentlemen, I'll serve." We watched in awe as he filled a bowl, wondering what had come over him. Then, instead of passing the soup to anyone, he just said, "Now you serve." We were relieved. We wanted him just the way he was--irascible and incorrigible. His passions were books, music and friends...
...most ubiquitous athlete in the post-Jordan era. Now he has proved he's also its most amazing. Woods won his second major title and eight tournaments (including a gravity-defying four in a row) and made almost as much money as The Sixth Sense. Perhaps the most awe-inspiring feat was the juggling-ball trick in that Nike...
...midnight the men will in all likelihood be wide awake, huddling over their campfires and talking about life, just as they do every night. A tribal leader may explain what will be going on in other parts of the world on this night. The men will stand in awe trying to fathom this--for all of three minutes, after which they'll get back to more important things, like the next day's hunt, which is after all what life is really all about. WILLIAM O'DWYER FOGTMAN Documentary Filmmaker Rio de Janeiro...