Word: awe
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Perhaps just as important, the Gorbachev phenomenon may have a transforming effect outside the communist world, on the perceptions and therefore the policies of the West. Watching him ought to inspire, in addition to awe, suspense and admiration, an epiphany about what his fellow citizens call, with increasing irony, anger and impatience, "Soviet reality." Gorbachev's determination to restructure that reality should induce Westerners to practice a kind of reverse engineering on the images in their own mind. The question of the hour should be not just, What next? but, Knowing what we know now, having seen what we have...
FREDERIC EDWIN CHURCH, National Gallery of Art, Washington. The aptly named Church (1826-1900) created vast landscapes expressing the spiritual awe Americans once felt before their new continent as nature's cathedral, a vision of earthly paradise. Through...
...awe of Lowell and intimidated by Bishop," recalls Osherow...
Cornhusker faithful, Nebraska students and alumni have a reverence for athletes that does not exist at Harvard. Each day, the local newspaper chronicles the professional exploits of former Huskers like Turner Gill (CFL) and the Patriots' Irving Fryar. Students even stare in awe when current players walk into a restaurant or store...
...figure of King Henry V, sexily backlighted. His bishops and courtiers gaze at him like apostles at the unseen Jesus in some old biblical epic. And finally the monarch of Britain -- and of this robust new movie -- shows his face and speaks. It is an entrance angled to register awe for Kenneth Branagh. But how much awe can a 28-year-old actor, little known outside Britain and directing his first film, expect to inspire? Branagh recalls that when Judi Dench, who plays Mistress Quickly, first saw this scene, "she laughed in my face and said, 'I've never seen...