Word: awe
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...Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, had in common the fact of having been painted by Titian. The story of Charles V picking up a brush that Titian had dropped and handing it back to the painter may be apocryphal, but it sums up the sense of deference and even awe that Titian's celebrity, fixed by his talent and assiduously pumped up by his promoter, Pietro Aretino, produced in his clients...
...unified march of Saddam's opponents has so far evoked awe around the globe, especially given the signs of fissure that emerged almost from the start. Many nations were simply uncertain how far military vs. diplomatic action should go. The fractures deepened when the U.S. rode out ahead of the posse by unilaterally declaring a blockade of Iraq. That, said most world powers, was a matter strictly...
...object's significance may be as much artistic as it is religious: incredibly well preserved, it is intact except for a missing left horn. Israeli archaeologists are in awe of its beauty. Says Avraham Biran, former director of the Israeli Department of Antiquities: "People will be copying this because it's so pretty, so delicately done. It's in a class by itself...
...been published? And why are they called "reading" copies? Does this mean that the copies themselves are literate, or that the copies are capable of being read? Assuming the latter, is the "reading" qualifier really necessary? What else are we pundits supposed to do with it? State in awe at the technological marvel of a "full-color cover...
...lethal outbursts of meanness. But the reader doesn't see much of that side. Oh, Watson beats his son every Sunday and throws a half-caste mistress off his land when she becomes inconvenient. But the narrative, which is told in 36 short chapters by ten locals, mostly mixes awe and dread, along with a certain aw-shucks accommodation. Outsize characters, Watson's workmen and neighbors seem to think, have their little crotchets...