Word: awe
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...Washington some advisers were urging Ford to reassure the American public that there was no chance the U.S. would be dragged back into the war: Vietnam was lost. But Ford was in awe of Kissinger, and, says Robert Hartmann, chief White House speech writer, "Kissinger, for negotiating reasons, was not ready to throw in the towel." Hartmann persisted, telling Ford "nobody declared this war, but you can declare the end of it." He remembers that Ford's "brow furrowed and he said 'I'm not sure Henry would approve...
...problem with this kind of filmmaking has always been caution. And that's what is wrong with Jefferson in Paris. It's as if everyone was just a little too much in tasteful awe of its subject, who is played rather stolidly by Nick Nolte. They are afraid to grant him his full vitality or give full dramatic life to the issues, public and personal, that stirred him during the five years (1784-89) when, recently widowed, he served as the new American republic's ambassador to France...
...White House Lyndon Johnson stopped by an F.D.R. bust and cradled the bronze chin in his big palm. "Look at that strength," he said to his companion. Then he stroked the Roosevelt face in tribute, his mind reaching back to when he was a young Texas Congressman, watching in awe as F.D.R. steadied the nation in depression and commanded it in war. After nearly 50 years of trying, the U.S. at last seems ready to complete a major Roosevelt memorial in Washington. Or maybe...
...nailing down that fact, Maraniss may have done his most awe-inspiring piece of reporting. The author was able to get Clinton's former Chief of Staff and chief protector, Betsey Wright, to tell him on-the-record about a conversation they had when he was mulling a bid for the presidency...
...suspects that one ought to feel awe and delight, it is a pity one does not. So much money and effort spent to capture that brutal and ridiculous gesture. It's a feeling which the viewer will experience several times during the course of "Queen Margot," as if Chereau hoped to have one awestruck merely on the merits of enormous expense. It's an attitude which Louis XIV, the biggest conspicuous consumer of them all, would have understood, as a directorial technique however, it fails to deliver. After the wedding scene, "Queen Margot" disintegrates into the byzantine intrigues leading...